THE CRAIG PRIZE PLAY.

Another Craig Prize Play is to receive its first professional performance at the Castle Square Theatre this evening-- "Between the Lines," by Mrs. Charlotte B. Chorpenning. And again we hear the criticism that the best plays that are produced in Professor Baker's courses are not written by undergraduates or graduates of the University. "Common Clay," by Cleves Kinkead, last year's successful prize play, was not written by a graduate, and the year before the piece was by a Radcliffe graduate. But this does not prove that good plays are not written by University men in English 47. Witness "Believe Me, Xantippe," by J. F. Ballard, a former Craig Prize winner, and E. L. Beach's "The Clod," now running in New York. We cannot expect the Craig Prize always to come to Harvard graduates--the important thing is to maintain the high standard of English 47 compositions. The interest and support of the University at large should be for English 47 and not for the individual author.