HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home Is the real Beat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their girts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Drama...
...Dip a piece of all-linen cloth in strong sulphuric acid, remove it quickly and wash it thoroughly with water and it will not be injured...
...1m mineral matter...
...it had employed the best of lecturers...
...We see an uncommercial theater at Hull House where the people of the neighborhood produce the best of plays...
...The standard of judgment will be broad enough to include comedy and even farce if it be good material, well constructed, with no evil tendencies, reflecting life in a manner to enlighten and improve as well as to amuse...
...The first, of which Miss Elizabeth Wallace of the University of Chicago is chairman, is issuing outlines of study for the use of clubs...
...Do the same to cotton and the fiber will be destroyed...
...Do you...
...it had, as a body, attended plays which do not, as a rule, appeal sufficiently to the public to be financially profitable to actors or to managers...
...It would be a better world for me to live in A sample of Milk, of which 71 per cent...
...It is of no advantage to me to have cotton and woolen mixtures sold for all-wool...
...The second illustration shows a piece of goods sold for all-silk...
...first, by encouraging the reading and study of drama outside the theater...
...The main effort of the league will be devoted to the educational side of the work...
...When we who live in the first quarter of the twentieth century, look about us, we see many movements, any one of which might have given Miss McMillan the starting point for the creation of her ideal stage, her ideal drama and her ideal public...
...The objects are thus stated in the constitution : 1. To stimulate an interest in the best drama and to awaken the public to the importance of the theater as a social force and to its great educative value if maintained on the high level of art and morals...
...Of its engagement there the Boston Common says: "The Drama League exerted its influence so effectively that at some performances the members almost entirely occupied the house, which is certainly a different story from the empty seats that greeted the performance of this unexcelled organization in Boston...
...he must have lived where someone was doing something to make the world of today like the world as we hope it will be tomorrow...
...At the first public meeting held at the Lyric theater in Chicago on May 6 the President, Mrs...
...It is of no advantage to me to have them so employed...
...There is too much useful work to be done in the world...
...This is a plan which has for some time been followed by the MacDowell Club of New York City and which has proved so helpful a* to be thought worthy of being made national...
...It is wasteful to have men's energies employed in the useless occupation of making one fabric look like some other fabric just for the sake of cheating people...
...we see the Ethical Society School in New York and other enlightened schools where the pupils are taught to act, not for the purpose of showing off but for the sake of the development of their own powers of understanding and expression...
...tin will not...
...As a result, it at once received the cooperation of sixty-three clubs in the vicinity of Chicago with a membership of 15,000 people...
...We feel that much of the brilliant success of the Sothern and Marlowe engagement and the New Theater Company engagement was due to the efforts of the Drama League...
...It had taken to heart Mr...
...I do not care to have cotton cloth made to look like linen and sold for linen...
...An-spacher's advice to those who mourn the decline of the drama...
...if men's and women's occupations accustomed them to honesty and not to dishonesty...
...This League grew out of the Drama Club of Evanston, a society which had already made its influence felt in the neighborhood of Chicago...
...One end of the "all-linen" towel shown in the third illustration was treated in that way...
...Treat cotton in the same way and it will remain unchanged...
...the rest was left, a molten mass, to show how great a burden the delicate silk fibers had been made to bear...
...If business controls art, you must make it good business to control good art, and the best business to control the best art...
...Is it to you...
...The first picture on this page shows a piece of goods sald for all-wool and a piece of the same goods after it had been given the treatment described above...
...Professor S. H. Clark of the University of Chicago, another member of the committee, will be the chief speaker...
...Fabrics of this kind are not exceptional...
...There are very few people to whom they are of any advantage, even of an evil sort...
...we see a street in one of the poorest districts in New York closed for a day in order to make a stage for a pageant in which all the children of the neighborhood take part...
...3. To co-ordinate the work of all associations and individuals interested in educating the public to appreciate and demand the best drama...
...it will have disappeared as completely as if it had been salt dropped into water...
...We are not surprised, therefore, to find her referring to the "rapid elevation of public taste in matters of art, and modes of recreation that began to take place even in the first quarter of the twentieth century...
...It is demoralizing for men and women to be employed to make or to sell misbranded goods...
...they are for sale everywhere and in largest quantities among the poor "where every penny counts," as Miss Tarbell would say...
...2. To harmonize and unite forces already existing for making this movement nation-wide...
...For this reason the Drama Club sent out a call for other organizations to affiliate with it...
...THE League is working at present chiefly through two committees, the educational and the play going...
...This time it is the tatters that tell the tale...
...Don't you...
...What are we going to do about it...
...When we read in Margaret McMillan's Schools of Tomorrow that, in the far-away time of which she writes, the stage had become an important factor in civic life, and that it had developed to this point "through the education of a new, highly critical and highly appreciative Public," we know that the writer must be part of some present-day movement to educate a "critical and appreciative public" or must at least be a sympathetic observer of such an effort...
...Cotton costs less than linen and it is not nearly so absorbent nor so durable...
...If a play which is good but not likely to be popular is "tried out" in Washington, for example, the Washington member will make a report which will be issued as a bulletin and sent to all members...
...Is This Worth While...
...OF THE newer efforts to make the stage a great educational force, none is more promising than the recently organized Drama League of America...
...The Play-Going Committee, of which Miss Houston is chairman, is drawing its membership from all the great play-producing centers of the country...
...Too bad that the many who want them stopped cannot find some way to make their voices heard above the voices of the few who wish them to continue...
...SOON after the formation of this organization, the New Theater Company began to play in Chicago...
...The Boston Common has already arranged to reprint the bulletins for the benefit of Boston theater-goers...
...It had carried on a systematic course of study...
...As the League has been in existence only four months, and those the months when most people take holidays, its work is chiefly ahead of it, and we must ask its purposes rather than its accomplishments...
...You do not want these things to continue and I do not, and your neighbor does not and my neighbor does not...
...it must have had its beginning in real things...
...Besides the educational feature of the work we aim to organize the theater-going membership of the women's clubs of the country and the individual members whom we hope to acquire throughout the country into a body which shall faithfully support all plays receiving the league's stamp of approval—a body which shall consider itself pledged to ignore all plays deliberately catering to indecencies or that are of no literary or structural value...
...It would seem as if every woman's club in the country and every individual interested in making the stage a greater factor for good in the community ought to join the Drama League...
...A Starr Best, said, "We feel that our objects may be accomplished in three ways...
...Cotton is cheaper than wool and it is not nearly so warm...
...It will labor valiantly to encourage the publication and translation of plays by furnishing a reading public for plays...
...Silk will burn...
...the abuses of the stage were nation-wide and so too must be the efforts to remove them...
...we see organizations being formed here and there all over the country for the study of the drama and the support of the best in dramatic art...
...I hate to think of the children of the present growing up to take dishonesty as a matter of course...
...The cotton which remains tells the story...
...BOIL a piece of all-wool cloth-in a 5 per cent, water solution of potassium hydroxide for a few minutes and then try to find it...
...When it was weighed and heated, only 29 per cent, was found to be combustible...
...In order to make its influence more widely felt, the Club believed that it was necessary to get the cooperation of people in other parts of the country...
...I do not want to buy silk that has been weighted until it is ready to fall apart almost before it can be made into garments...
...After the New Theater Company had left, Miss Alice M. Houston, acting secretary of the League, received the following letter from Herbert Duce, manager of the theater in which it had played: "I want to express to you the most cordial appreciation of the managers of the New Theater Company, of the Shuberts and of myself, for your very practical interest in the engagement of the New Theater Company, at the Lyric...
...The League thus formed now includes 212 clubs with a membership of 65,000...
...This department will have charge of the next public meeting which will take the form of "a sample drama day," showing how drama study should be conducted...
...No Utopia was ever built exclusively out of fancies...
...We will have reading circles and lecture courses, and feel that possibly avenues of opportunity may be opened up to bring about careful drama courses in the primary schools of the country...
...It can aim also to encourage the study of dramatic writing as a serious vocation requiring special training...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Drama League of America WHEN a person reaches a point in the world of imagination from which he can "look backward," it is safe to suppose that he had first reached a point in the world of reality from which he had secured a long view forward...
...We will endeavor to create clubs and circles, and departments of already existing clubs, for the serious study of plays and of drama technique...
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...to say nothing of the harm done to the people cheated...
Vol. 2 • September 1910 • No. 36
