Pulitzer Prize Playwright "Comes Home"

Gilroy was here ... again.

On October 16 the road company of The Subject WasRoses, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Frank D. Gilroy '50, played to capacity audiences in the Hopkins Center Theatre, and playwright Gilroy and his wife Ruth were on hand to share in the Hanover audience's appreciation of the production. He was called to the stage to take a curtain call with the cast of his show.

Gilroy also had opportunity to visit with Prof. Henry B. Williams, the man who staged Gilroy's first full-length student play; with other former teachers, and with many of the students now involved in the College's drama programs. Gilroy, a former editor of The Dartmouth, also spoke informally to the newspaper's staff at a banquet planned in his honor by the undergraduate journalists.

Frank Gilroy '50 discusses his drama writing and the theatre with[student actors before wall of posters from recent Dartmouth dramas.

Gilroy with actors Peter Duryea (r) and Dennis O'Keefe (foreground)who, with Betty Field, make up the company for this touring showof The Subject Was Roses" while Warner Bentley (background),he Hopkins Center director, enjoys the professionals' shop-talk.

Flanked by The Dartmouth's editorial board and his wifeRuth, Gilroy talks to the students about campus journalismin the late '40's -when he was the paper's editor.