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Four one-act plays make up the program for the 47 Workshop's spring production, which will be given as usual in Agassiz House on Thursday and Friday, the 5th and 6th of February. Trials for the casts have been conducted for some time, but as yet the cast of "At Cockcrow," a tragedy by Leila Thayer, is undecided. The three other plays are: "A Right to Live," a comedy by Lois Compton Fuller; a play in one act, "The Slump," by Frederick L. Day 1G.; "Man's Greatest Hunger," a tragedy written by Kenneth R. Raisbeck...
...casts for all except "At Cockcrow," filled by members of the 47 Workshop, are as follows: "The Right to Live." Maggie, Bettie La Mont Jane, Bcula Auerbach Jake, H. F. Carlton 1G. Mike, J. L. Hotson '21 Don Marguerite Barr Mrs. Multoon, Doris Halman Old Woman, Vianna Knowlton "The Slump." James Madden, Walter Butterfield '20 Mrs. Madden, Ruth Chorpenning Edgar Mix, W. B. Leach '22 "Man's Greatest Hunger." Gismonda, Dorothy Sands Alisandro, J. W. D. Seymour Pietro, Harding Scholle Occ. Madenna Gioulia, Doris Holman
...being received with enthusiasm is shown by the fact that on its first presentation in Washington all first-night records of attendance were broken, and at present at the Little Theatre in New York seats are selling six weeks in advance. This play was first produced in the 47 Workshop in January of last year; then, when it was accepted by Oliver Morosco and produced by him the first presentation was given in Providence, where it stayed for a week before going to Washington, and thence to New York. While being recast for the footlights of Broadway almost no change...
Today Massachusetts Hall, still a "fair and goodly house of brick," and capable of giving service to many more Harvard classes, is used for examination, for the office of the College Superintendent, and for the famous 47 Workshop, where the students in Professor George P. Baker's courses in drama produce their plays
...Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school. So long as present requirements exist, the school must continue to prepare its students for college, instead of preparing them for life...