![]() ![]() ![]() Described in her high school yearbook as the “prettiest girl in the senior class,” Watkins was also the smartest, graduating first in her class. The show was Chicago, and its author was Maurine Watkins ’27Dra, the precocious only child of a minister and a teacher from Louisville, Kentucky. In 1925, Yale opened the first graduate department of drama in the United States, and it didn’t take long for the program to bear fruit: within a year, a play written by a student in the inaugural class went to Broadway and was hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most stirring plays of the season.” Remade as a Broadway musical and more than one movie, the story continues to captivate audiences to this day. At Yale, she parlayed her reporting experience into the play Chicago, which was remade several times, including as a 2002 Academy Award-winning movie. ![]() Condé Nast Archive/Corbis Maurine Watkins's "demure, old-fashioned air" helped her get a job at the Chicago Tribune. ![]()
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