R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 120w
Reviewed by E. R. Burton
+ Survey 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB. Plays of the Harvard dramatic club. *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)
Brooklyn 12:66 Ja ’20 30w
“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.
+ − Freeman 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews