Class of 1912

The following is taken from the theatrical department of the New York Times: “Mark Reed, author of ‘She Would and She Did’, hails from Harvard, and is the latest alumnus of Professor Baker’s playwrights’ prep, school to reach Broadway. Reed has enjoyed a varied career. He has successively been college student, architect, circulation manager of a suffrage paper, torch bearer of the drama in the Middle West, soldier, and now playwright. For a time life for Reed was just one col- lege after another. He was graduated from Dartmouth, and then went to Boston Tech, to study architecture. He tried for a while to make a living as an architect, and, finding plays and players more to his taste than plans and specifications, deserted the latter for Harvard and English 47. There he studied play writing for two years. Then came an offer from the IVOman’s Journalthe. national suf- frage paper, and for some months Reed re- joiced in the title and accruing emoluments of circulation manager. Galesburg, 111., knew him next. There, in company with two friends with whom he had studied at Harvard, he founded ‘The Prairie Playhouse.’ During his year there Reed learned much of the theatre. His duties as a director of ‘The Prairie Play- house’ were many and varied. He officiated as scene painter, occasional author, and constant financial genius, for to him was left the busi- ness end of the enterprise. When the Galesburg Drama League took over the destinies of ‘The Prairie Playhouse’, Reed went home to Mass- achusetts and wrote ‘She Would and She Did’. Shortly after he had finished the play the war came, and Reed enlisted. He was attached to the Camouflage Section, 40th Engineers, saw fifteen months’ service in France, and re- turned some months ago to find that Miss George had accepted ‘She Would and She Did’.”

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