After considerable revision the tragedy became a pageant, The Sons of Spain, and was produced in 1914 by The Forest Theater Society at Carmel.
Under Bacon’s guidance he wrote a blank verse tragedy which used the Black Death at Avignon as a background for the love story of Petrarch and Laura. He also took Leonard Bacon’s English 106, probably the first seminar in creative writing ever offered at Cal. His undergraduate poems and stories appeared in Occident, and he wrote two pageants which were performed on campus. Barrett Clark said he had an “irrepressible youthfulness, a tremendous enthusiasm for life.” He was admired for his generosity to other writers, and his own plays were described as “among the best ever written in America.” He was one of the first important Broadway playwrights to go to Hollywood.īorn in Oakland, Sidney Howard came to Berkeley as a student in 1911. Everyone who knew Sidney Howard (1891-1939) testified to his exuberant vitality.
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