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Coburn Players, Valparaiso University 1914
Valparaiso, Indiana

Date: 1914
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: probably Charles W. Beam
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Remark: The following newspaper item was published on August 2, 1914, in The Evansville Journal and provides a description of the Coburn Players:

Coburn Players.
The summer does not seem to be a propitious time for Shakespeare and other classical dramas, yet the Coburn Players under the auspices of Columbia University gave us a week of the classics. Of course the open air setting mitigated the ordeal to a certain extent. Mr. Coburn has gathered about him a group of players of no mean ability. The lines were read intelligently and with feeling. The list of players presented included "The Canterburry Pilgrims." "The Merchant of Venice," "Sancturary," a Bird Masque by Percy Mac Kaye, "Hamlet," "As You Like It" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Of these "Sanctuary" and "As You Like It" were the best, possible because of the natural wood-like setting of the Columbia campus.

The Coburn players started their season in Washington, D. C., on April 22, and when they close in the latter part of August, their itinerary will have taken them to more than fifty educational institutions throughout the country.

Source:
The Evansville Journal, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana; August 2, 1914; Volume 82, Number 214, Part II, Page 6, Columns 5-6. Column titled "Coburn Players."

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