Kirkland Senior Wins Scriptwriting Contest

"Glad Eden," a three-act play by John A. Rowell '51 of Kirkland House and Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been selected as the best of 12 scripts submitted to the joint Harvard-Radcliffe Playwrights Group contest of last spring, President Russell A. Ames '51 announced yesterday. Either the Dramatic Club or the playwrights Group will produce "Glad Eden" this spring.

A distinguished group of judges, including Chairman William Van Lennep, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Eleanor Hughes, Boston Herald drama critic, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, novelist Ernest Hemingway and actress Mary Martin made the selection.