HAMLET AND THE GATHERING
OF THE STORM CLOUDS
April seventh, Nineteen-Nine.
Dear Mother:
There's an awful lot of knowledge,
That you never get at college.
But I tell you, my dear, I am glad that Anna Bess put me on the scenery committee the first time 1906 had a play. Ever since I left Bryn Mawr I have been looking for the things I learned that were "going to prove useful in after years." For the first time I've hit something. When the boys wanted to get up a play I showed them how to put squares of canvas together, tacked on poles at the platform end of the big schoolroom. I marked out a court scene with charcoal, and painted it in. One
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