Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 55 | Future Stars of Stage to Receive Their Training at University of Utah

Future Stars of Stage to Receive Their Training at University of Utah I By Selma Miller For Zions Zion's aspiring followers of ot the footlights a star of ot hope and good omen has appeared on tho the horizon Utah's hat has been thrown into the theatrical ring with a whoop and a arah rah an and from Cram every evry nook and cranny of the Great Salt Lake valley valle the silent prayers of ot both the fair fall and strong who have ha longed to have their fling ClIng in are arc resonant with hope Again the University of oC Utah the high highest t educational institution of the state has shown the way From a simple little course In to toan toan toan an extensive department where the youth o of the state ma may prepare themselves themselves them them- selves for the theatrical profession as actors directors scenic artists stage managers etc Is the next rung on the ladder of or progress that the school intends Intends in intends In- In tends to mount Not forgetting her native state and the time lime she too dreamed of at a a. ca career career career ca- ca reer Maude Adams Utah's own stage Idol has voiced her desire and intentions Intentions intentions In aiding personally the school chool In realizing this great undertaking for forthe forthe forthe the benefit of oC her native states state's sons and daughters Realizing Realizing- that the test of a nations nation's civilization Is the dIe way in in which Its I people use their l lr I leisure time Ime Miss liss laud Maud May Babcock director or of dramatics uraj ura- ura I j university has been lend lend- I matics malic at the lend lend-l trig Ing ng ever every effort for the past few ew years ears Zo 10 o install in the school such a de department department de- de whereby the talented men I de-I and women of the state might stud study I theatrical work as a a. means of making it t their lifes life's work MECCA OF PLAYWRIGHTS Already the University of Utah has become a a. mecca for young play pla writ writ- writers ers erg and students in elementary pIa play production Since 18 1896 1596 G the dramatic department of or the school has produced twenty eight plays plas ranging from lassie classic to farce falc from Shakespeare to Shaw Each ach production has been re repeated repeated repeated re- re from Cram four tour to twenty limes Um's in Salt Lake and throughout the state and to meet the growing demand for Cor I better amateur amatel r plays play the school found it necessary two years ago to give an I elementary courso course In play technique In the two years since the beginning of this course courso two hundred and sixty people people graduate graduate students principals and superintendents sup from Alaska Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon Idaho Nevada Wyoming yarning Arizona Arizo- Arizo na and Nebraska have Nebraska have flocked locked here hereto to take ke advantage of the opportunity offered to learn something something- of the theatrical theatrical theatrical the the- work Aware of the fact tact that trained ac actors actors DC- DC tors tons are essential to the training of or a student of the drama Miss Babcock has arranged to secure some of the best actors and actresses in the country country country coun coun- try to come to Salt Lake and personally personally personally person person- ally train those who take up this work at the thc university BEGIN WORK IN FALL Among the tho first on th the program to put the Utah devotees of ot the drama through h tho the paces will be Maurice Brown and Ellen Van Valkenburg director til- til rector and leading lady of or the Chicago o Little theatre who will begin their work of or acting teaching and directing at the university next fall tall The The- Thead ad ad- I j I students will support Mr 1 Brown and Miss Van an Valkenburg In at least one production a a. month at thoI tho the Salt Lake theatre Miss Van Valkenburg Valkenburg Valkenburg I burg will also bring her puppets here hereof hereof hereof of which we read so o much In last years year's magazines and give Ive matinees for the children with them Sam Hume Humo director of the tho Arts and Crafts theatre in Detroit and as man many others as the school chool will support will also be he br brought here that the state ma may have the advantage of seeing the vcr very best in drama acted by great preat a actors tor and producers tho productions I will also bc he sent Into the state as faras faras far faras as possible it is said Maude Adams has greatly really interested herself in the proposed action of at the school and is anxious to do something for tor her native state She wishes to give sive some classic productions b by herself herself herself her her- self and com company nn for the University of ot Utah such as she has given at Harvard lIar lIar- yard vard and at the University of Cali Cali- fornia This idol of the Utah people has in connection with aiding aiding- the state in their project conceived the idea of oC having a play written by one of Americas America's Amer Amer- Americas America's ica's leas best dramatists using Bunyan's Pilgrims Pilgrim's Pro Progress ress as the theme and giving It U to the thc university as a perpetual ual living legacy legac to be produced each year at commencement time Ume b by the tho senior class Miss Adams plans to come to Salt Lake and per personally di direct direct direct di- di the first performance thus fixing the tradition of or the plays play's presentation