| Show EAST LIKES UTAH BOOK I 1 I t tg Z Z 1 1 to 1 1 NEW DRAMA ANALYZED I I II I Prof B. B Roland Lewis ris Explains Explains Explains Ex Ex- Ex- Ex plains Technique of One-act One Play PROP PROF PROP B. B ROLAND D LEWIS LlWIS as associate o J professor protessor of or English at al the University Uni Un- of ot Utah who has hag been pioneerIng pioneering pioneer pioneer- ing In the field of contemporary drama h has received recel the first toP opy of or his published pub pub- volume The Technique of the One Act Pia Play and announces that ItIs it itis itis is r ready dy to be used as a n text book In Inthe Inthe inthe the dramaturgy courses at nt the university er sIt Sit sity this year car Professor Profesor Lewis has accomplished n a work unique In Its line because his I book Is fl tho the first comprehensive stud study o of one-act one pIn play construction that has yet been rUen It ha has received fa favorable f a- a comment an and notice from Crom the book bool reviewers and critics of or the east cast the Boston Doston Transcript especially being cordial In Its mention of the work D By Byall all ill reviewers re It has been hailed as a a. stepping stone to better things In the popular new form torm of drama that Is overturning all established traditions In n the dramatic world worM rw Type pc IK Is Popular I A widespread recognition of t the e artistic artistic ar- ar and commercial importance of th the he ono act play Is apparent both from the number of or successful of or established wh who are arc presenting pro pre plays in that form and from t the h e Co constantly a s t a n tl y I In increasing ii re a s I n g a attention t t en t I 0 n paid paltI to this type b by universities giving well balanced courses in literature or specializing In dramatic composition The one-act one pIa play Is steadily coming I Into nto Its own declares Professor Lewis and from Crom no standpoint has hafl It readied reached the thc of or Its Us possibilities Obviously Obviously l ous It Is tho form host best adapted for Cor intro introducing the student to tho the problem o of dramatic construction and equally apparent Is opportunity It affords tur tOl or the maintenance of the dramatic I unities so 0 essential In producing the j I finest dramatic effects Three t Hundred PIn Piny Studied tl t Professor Lewis re-is Is well qualified to write on the subject of ot one-act one play I construction because he has had several soy sev eral oral years years' experience In directing a I university course devoted to the stu study and writing O of that particular form torm of or drama Ills His laboratory work has en enabled en- en him bun to arrive c at at conclusions which could not be so practical if IC th they were merely theories Professor Lewis has han also made a n critical analysis of or more than of or the lie shorter forms of I contemporary dramatic expression Tho The subject Is developed eloped from a a. broadly scientific basis and Is fundamental in ints Its ts psychology and t technique The University of or Utah was tho the first un university In the thc land to originate tho ho course In one-act one pIa play construction Professor Lewis himself has lon long been beena a x student o of the drama having done re research research rl- rl search learch work for Prof George Pierce l Baker Bakr of or Harvard university the recognized roe rec authority on dramatic t technique technique tech tech- I ch- ch In America The book Just Issued contains a comprehensive com com- stud study of or the subject Including includIng In ing chapters on theme plot beginning middle end characterization dialogue stage direction and stage setting of or orthe the one-act one play pla as well a as a 1 list 1 of or popular contemporary one-act one plays plas recently published I Literary Pioneer I I S- S I W 4 PROF n. n ROLAND n LEWIS |
