<div dir="ltr">Hello Moira and All!<div><br></div><div>Thanks for this interesting discussion. I happened to be at Robart's yesterday and picked up a copy of a book called Canadian School Plays (1948), edited by Emrys Maldwyn Jones, Professor of Drama, University of Saskatchewan. It includes scripts by such playwriting powerhouses as Elsie Park Gowan and Gwen Pharis Ringwood. In light of this discussion, I googled Jones this morning. Apparently he has a 1946 book called The University's Duty Towards Canadian Drama. I haven't seen it, but I wonder if Jones taught the first courses in Canadian Drama? I also found this bio at the University of Saskatchewan site:</div><div><span style="color:rgb(153,204,255);font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:1.4em">Biography:</span></div><p class="" style="margin:0px 28.4688px 0px 99.6719px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.1em;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)"><img src="http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/jones/pagegraphics/horizline.gif" width="299" height="4" alt="------"></p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)"> </p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)">Emrys Maldwyn Jones was born in Dowlais, Wales on 14 September 1905. His early education was in Edmonton, Alberta, including a B.A from the University of Alberta in 1931.</p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)"> </p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)">In the summer of 1928 Jones took a train north from Edmonton to the terminus at Waterways where he boarded a boat that would eventually take him north to the Mackenzie River Delta.</p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)"> </p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)">From 1931 to 1939, he taught high school in Edmonton. He returned to the University of Alberta in 1939 where he combined employment as a drama instructor with his graduate studies. He earned his MA in 1943 and spent the next two years studying at Cornell and Columbia universities on a Rockefeller Fellowship.</p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)"> </p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 99.6719px 0px 128.156px;font-size:medium;font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;color:rgb(153,204,255)"><a href="http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/jones/images/EMJones_1945-73.jpg" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(204,255,255)"><img src="http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/jones/thumbnails/EMJones_1945-73.jpg" width="57" height="80" align="LEFT" border="2" alt="Emrys M. Jones - Department of Drama" vspace="0" hspace="10"></a></p><div><span style="color:rgb(153,204,255);font-family:Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify">In 1945 Emrys Jones joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan as Professor and Head Department of Drama. He was the first full professor of drama to be appointed at a Commonwealth university. During his career Jones educated hundreds of students, directed dozens of plays, and advanced the dramatic arts on the national stage by founding the Canadian Theatre Centre in 1956. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London) in 1971 and named Professor Emeritus of Drama in 1973.</span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, <span style="font-size:12.8px">PhD</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>NEW BOOK: <span style="color:rgb(10,38,60);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.35"><b>Ignite: Illuminating Theatre for Young People</b> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">(edited by Heather Fitzsimmons Frey) </span><a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/theatre-and-learning" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/ignite-illuminating-theatre-for-young-people.html</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></div>