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Drawn to Harvard from another college by the fame of the "47 Workshop" I was at first amazed and disappointed to find its facilities so antiquated and inadequate. After two years of world as stage hand and actor, however, I realize that the "47 Workshop" is not a place, or equipment, or even an organization, but one man--Professor G. P. Baker. So inspiring and persistent is his enthusiasm that not even obvious non-cooperation can check his efforts. He will go on anyway...
Pronouncing Professor George Pierce Baker '87, head of the 47 Workshop, a "prophet who is without honor in his own country" and otherwise scoring the University authorities for their laxness in providing Professor Baker with adequate equipment for carrying on his teaching, Hermann Hagedorn '07, prominent New York playwright and author, yesterday addressed a vigorous letter to the CRIMSON decrying the situation which he described as "incredible" and commending the paper heartily for its editorial of last Friday entitled "George Pierce Baker...
Since the founding of the 47 Workshop, which has been in successful operation for over ten years, Professor Baker has met with almost no assistance whatever in his efforts toward extension and improvement. At every turn his requests have been denied and his work hampered by an utterly inexplicable passive resistance on the part of the governing powers of the University. He has asked for official cooperation and has been refused. He has attempted to solicit funds and has been expressly forbidden to do so. Why he continues his apparently undesired labors can be explained on no other ground than...
Dramatics at Harvard, due to the absence of Professor G. P. Baker '87, on sabbatical leave, and the consequent inactivity of the 47 Workshop, will be confined to the Harvard Dramatic Club. Among plans for the fall season, the Secretary. Lendon Suedcker '25, announces, will be performances at Wellesley and Smith...
...With pleasant anticipation of renewed work together, I am "Gratefully yours, "George P. Baker, "Director of the 47 Workshop...