PRIZE DRAMAS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 8, 14 February 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

PRIZE DRAMAS.

HAMPSTEAD SCHOOLMASTER'S SUCCESS. A remarkable success in the £IOO prize play competition inaugurated by Lord Howard de Walden has been scored by Mr ]). T. Da vies, a secondary schoolmaster living at Hampstead. The prize is offered yearly for dramas dealing with Welsh life. Mr Davies told the "Daily Mirror" that he only began to write plays a year ago. ~.',,.. "1 had. never before entered ;for the competition," he saidl "I sent in three plays,- and the £IOO prize has been divided amongst the writers of the four best plays. "Three out of those four plays were it/he three wliich'l sent in. I have only written one play before in.my life, and that also was a prize-winning effort, gaining me a £5 award at Aberystwyth College."' - - v: Mr Davies,.a .young Welshman .and a married man, has been general form master at the "Central Foundation School, E.C., for some ten years :