Herbert Whittaker. <i>Setting the Stage: Montreal Theatre 1920-1949</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Herbert Whittaker's memoir of his life and work in the theatre in and around Montreal during the roaring twenties, dirty thirties, and world-warring forties is aptly titled. Although Whittaker is best known as having been a theatre critic with the Globe and Mail from 1949 to 1975, Setting the Stage covers the early, formative years of Whittaker's career as a critic with the Montreal Gazette (1937 to 1949) and as a director, thespian, and pioneer of English theatre in Montreal, while underscoring his work as a set designer. Whittaker's capacious and copiously detailed recollections are also clearly intended to set the stage for younger generations of theatre historians and researchers. Editor Jonathan Rittenhouse's afterward in this volume provides an immediate example of how the wealth of facts, descriptions, anecdotes, and observations that Whittaker supplied both encourages and requires a more distanced, abstracted perspective, as well as some theoretical reflection on the theatrical world view Whittaker inscribes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.040 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".