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(Continued from Page 1) difficulty, he said, is to find language equal to the situation. Mr. Torrence was born in Xenia, Ohio, a part of the county which had been a focal point for the abolition of slaves. He knew many Negroes in that com munity and became familiar with their idiom. His first idea was that every member of the race was an actor and that acting was a group genius as was music and the dance, but he was to find that good actors are not common in any group. Speaking of drama in general, he pointed out that although we have in America every mechanical device of the stage and can call to our aid all the subtleties of lighting effects and devices of the film world, if necessary for illu sion, we still are hungry for words. Our ears and minds need to be satisfied as well as our eyes, Mr. Torrence said, and that is why we have a revival of old plays. At different times Mr. Torrence served as librarian in the New York Public Library, as editor of The Critic, and as associate editor of The Cosmopolitan and the New Republic. He has twice served as visiting professor of English at Mi ami University and one year he served as resident professor in creative writing at Antioch College. Mr. Torrence’s writings include “The House of a Hundred Lights,” “El Do rado, A Tragedy,” “Abelard and Helo ise,” “Hesperides,” and “The Undefend ed Line.” He is also editor of “Selected Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson.” published by the Macmillan Company in 1940.
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Atlanta Campus Mirror
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Wed, Apr 01, 1942
Page 4
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