Rabindranath was found , after a few days, to discuss with some elderly girls, came to him, about the " The king of the Dark Chamber"who were then reading the drama and was taking tea with the students and teachers . Then before a audience of about four hundred girls he read some poems from "The Crescent Moon," and "Gitanjali" and some Slokas in Sanskrit. Pearson went to visit some American Schools and remained absent from the company of Rabindranath.
Rabindranath went from Welessly to Boston and met with Prof. Houghton Woods of Harvard College and discussed with him about the collection of fund for Viswa Bharati . He wrote a letter to Macmillan from Union Club Of Boston on 7 Dec,1920.
NewYork Herald had published this news on 17th Nov; "Two of Tagore's plays " -" The Post Office" and "Sacrifice ", will be given in English a series of matinees, beginning Dec 7, at a Theatre to be annonced later.Kedar Nath Dasgupta had come with Rabindranath for this programme to be run commercially. Pearson wrote to Andrews on 23rd Nov that this created an enthusiasm and some artists wanted to take part in this without any remuneration;
" Last night I saw a Miss Anglin act and Gurudev suggests that she should take the part of Jaising...She is the most famous actressat Present acting in New York ...Miss Iago, the Iriosh girl who acted as Amal in London...also is offering her services practically free as Amal"
But due to the want of publicity the programme did not succeed.
Rabindranath went from Welessly to Boston and met with Prof. Houghton Woods of Harvard College and discussed with him about the collection of fund for Viswa Bharati . He wrote a letter to Macmillan from Union Club Of Boston on 7 Dec,1920.
NewYork Herald had published this news on 17th Nov; "Two of Tagore's plays " -" The Post Office" and "Sacrifice ", will be given in English a series of matinees, beginning Dec 7, at a Theatre to be annonced later.Kedar Nath Dasgupta had come with Rabindranath for this programme to be run commercially. Pearson wrote to Andrews on 23rd Nov that this created an enthusiasm and some artists wanted to take part in this without any remuneration;
" Last night I saw a Miss Anglin act and Gurudev suggests that she should take the part of Jaising...She is the most famous actressat Present acting in New York ...Miss Iago, the Iriosh girl who acted as Amal in London...also is offering her services practically free as Amal"
Ananda Lal wrote ;
"The Union of East and West next tried its luck, across the Atlantic, staging Sacrifice and The Post Office at the Garrick theatre in New York on 10 Dec,1920.
Rathindranath wrote that Kedar nath could arrnge four matinee show in the Garrick Theatre.
But due to the want of publicity the programme did not succeed.
