Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour and delight" of Broadway, and he regards its shows and performances as an "endless adventure."

Also Mr. Eaton has had a play produced, an experience, I believe, that Professor Baker has never suffered. "Queen Victoria" was not a masterpiece, but that may have been the fault of his collaborator. A former New York newspaper reviewer, he knows the caprices of the managers, their loves and hatreds, their strengths and frailties, and so he should be able to instruct the authors when to be submissive, when to grapple. Producers have welcomed him to their entertainments, and they have put him out of them. Asked by a pupil where to take a play treating of the rougher seximpulses, Mr. Eaton is equipped to say, "Anywhere but to John Golden." He is aware of the predelictions, peccadilloes and policies of all the showmen from Mr. Belasce to Mishkin and Mindal, and his counsel would therefore be of much value in bringing Harvard closer to Broadway.

Since the election of a successor to Professor Baker is a matter of more or less moment to every theatregoer, the Harvard overseers may excuse me for horning in. Mr. Eaton, I think, would be an ideal schoolmaster, and I have but one other suggestion to make. Why not an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild? Here is an institution, with an expert faculty, representing every branch of the dramatic art, including the audiences. It is an earnest organization, and it has at heart the improvement of the stage and its patrons. It might have time to join with Harvard in an endeavor to promote the better things. With such an arrangement students, instead of being confined to the amateur classrooms of "English 47," would have large contacts with the world of drama. They would learn not only from scholars but from experience. Miss Helbrun for astute showmanship, Mr. Moeller for dramaturgy and stage direction. Mr. Simonson for scenery. Mr. Wertheim for economics, Miss Westley for histrionism, Mr. Reicher for production and Mr. Munsell for business management. Judging from results this group, if it were to take the Harvard chicks under its frigid wing, would incubate some masters and masterpieces.

Perev Hammond in the New York. Herald-Tribune.