MACKAYE, PERCY

(1875), dramatist. Educated at Harvard College. 1906-1913, lectured at many colleges on the theater. 1908, delivered Harvard, Phi Betta Kappa poem. 1920, appointed to first American fellowship in poetry and drama at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Author of: The Canier bury Pilgrims, 1903, produced in 1909; Fenris the Wolf, a tragedy, 1905; Jeanne c’ Arc, a tragedy, produced in New York and London, 1906; Sappho and Phaon, tragedy, produced 1907; The Scarecrow, 1908; Lincoln - Centenary Ode, 1909; Mater, comedy, produced 1908; Poems, 1909; A Garland to Sylvia, comedy, 1910; Sinbad the Sailor, 1912; The Immigrants, 1915; A You sand Years Ago, 1914; The Present Hour, poems, 1914; A Substitute for War, 1915; American Consecration Hymn, 1917; Community Drama, 1917, e ay; Rip. Van Winkle, folk-opera, produced, 1920,. Chicago Opera A ociation and many others.