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...audience at tonight's reception will be limited to former students and workers of English 47 and the 47 Workshop which is in keeping with all previous Workshop meetings. Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 will preside at the reception. A number of famous playwrights, actors, and actresses, all former students under Professor Baker will make short addresses tonight. J. M. Brown '23 of the Theatre Arts Monthly; Miss Dorothy Sands, member of the company of the Neighborhood Playhouse of New York City: J. P. Munroe, Treasurer of the Workshop; Miss Agnes Morgan, director of the Neighborhood Playhouse...
...reception is open to former members and workers of the 47 Workshop and the members of the private audience that formerly attended Professor Baker's presentations. The public and the press are excluded from the meeting. The committee in charge of arranging the plans for Monday night's dinner is composed of E. T. Goodnow '17, chairman, J. C. Monroe, treasurer, Elizabeth W. Monroe, secretary, E. A. Whitney '17, J. W. D. Seymour '17, T. P. Robinson, Alice H. Spalding, and Dorothy Sands...
padded with a pair of proven actresses (Gail Kane and Elisabeth Risdon), though written by a graduate of Harvard's famed 47 Workshop (Thomas Robinson), one week sufficed to knock this play quite out of competition. It was an aimless story of a writer, his wife, another woman...
...abets them are suspect. So-called English composition is encouraged and the drama of Greece and Old England. But the humanities themselves are not sufficiently human to include modern life and art. "Art," of course, is a big word. Very few of the plays written for the "47 Workshop" are even good theatre. The creative talent is rare, especially rare in the drama and among folk of undergraduate years. Of the productions that have proceeded from Cambridge the largest and better portion have been by adult writers who have entered Harvard mainly or solely for the opportunity Professor Baker offered...
Harvard has had no difficulty in raising funds for things it really wanted. While starving the Workshop it raised more than $30,000,000, including its recent ten-million-dollar drive, from which six millions were pledged to the business school but not a cent to the drama. This drive blocked the effort which Mr. Baker's friends wished to make to raise money for a college theatre workshop, and thus he was given as plainly as possible to understand that though the Harvard officials were anxious to teach advertising and accounting they took no serious interest in the development...