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English 22 is one of the few courses in English composition given in the college. It is strictly a technical or "workshop" course, it being the belief of Mr. Hersey, who conducts the course, that skill in writing is obtained only by writing. That is why the student listens to no cut-and-dried lectures on the art of writing or is burdened with no definite number of pages of a textbook to read. He attends two very informal lectures a week, at which Mr. Hersey discusses some "genre", the short story, poetry, one act plays, the essay...
...Bargain (First National) is billed as a cinematic version of "Philip Barry's Prize Play." The award won by the play You and I on which The Bargain was based was but a minor trophy, from the Harvard "workshop" of Professor George Pierce Baker, in 1922. The Bargain sparkles intermittently with the witty insanity which is Author Barry's chief contribution to letters and the screen. But it is plainly the product of a sophomore playwright. Its major originality is to show a father who has enriched himself in business, painfully disappointed when his son offers to give...
...senior Guildsmen had won on his home ground-Raymond S. Doerr of Battle Creek, Mich. Graduated from high school in February, he was encouraged by his father-a pattern maker for a plumbing manufacturer-to build a coach instead of looking for work. He set up a workshop in the family's basement. The other senior winner was a boy named Albert Fischer from Waukegan Ill. He was let out of his draftsman's job, spent 1,200 hours on his coach...
...dramatic department of the University of Montana Summer School. Then he worked for Theatre Arts Monthly, then for the Post. His criticisms are noteworthy for their intelligence as well as iconoclasm. Critic Brown is hard to please. A onetime student at famed Professor George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop, Critic Brown has never written a play himself but has published critical works (Upstage, Modern Theatre in Revolt). This summer he will again teach at the University of Montana...
These last are of the work of the French weaver, Millefaeur, and of a Flemiah gothie workshop, respectively, and date from the early Sixteenth Century...