SOURCE: An interview with Ridgely Torrence, The New York Times, Vol. LXVI, No. 21631, April 15, 1917.

In the following excerpt, a New York Times reporter interviews Torrence about Three Plays for A Negro Theater.

Down in Waverley Place, to the northwest of Washington Square, there stands an old dwelling house which has been made over into apartments. And on the very top story of this house there is an apartment rich in literary associations. Here the late William Vaughn Moody lived from 1906 till 1909, and some of Moody's canvases (for the author of “The Great Divide” made painting his chief recreation) hang on the walls. At different times Percy MacKaye, Vachel Lindsay, and Edwin Arlington Robinson have lived here, and here, too, have dwelt poets from across the sea—Padraic Colum from Ireland, and Rabindranath Tagore from Bengal. And now this apartment is the home of Ridgely Torrence and his wife...