Show I Frohman Favors Dramatic Chair 1 II That Henry B Harris proposed chair ot of dramatic authorship toward which he offers to contribute If nine other managers will do the same would be a good thing In a way is the opinion of Daniel Frohman It would be chiefly val valuable valuable In F i supplementary sense he holds to a limited few But the Is some of them have chairs ot of dramatic literature now Mr Frohman went on Prot Prof Phelps at Yale and Prof Brander Mat here at Columbia give lectures on dramatic literature Plays are analyzed and the whole history ot of the drama taken up from down to the present i time All that can be Is well taught In a I college but the great essentials for the dramatists art are found elsewhere In a general knowledge ot of life lICe The dramatist must know all lire life he must have a sense of character must have a grip on the psychology ot of the human being And back ot of all that back of all knOWledge he must have that something which en ables him to fuse his material Into dna dra matic shape What the American drama Is In need otis of Is not technical knowledge but the creative Imagination to con something new and telling Give me something that shows originality In dramatic vitality and the rest Is easy Getting people on and off orf the stage effectively Is easy Some writers Titers have that faculty instinctively It be easily learned and It If It Is not can the I first rehearsal will straIghten all that at out Of course technique has Its value The T he actor has that In the placing of his voice you le In his Inflections It takes training to ae quire that But it is ot of little value un s less he has back of It In himself the In quality that enables him In to read re ad that the out meaning back of the lines and give gi ye There Is another point where training train counts In the writing of plays The T writer with a literary predilection is In dined to overwrite He Is likely to put Into Into four speeches es what could be put i t one and made more telling Then Th there are times when action can be sub at for words and points made rn effectively In all these matters train tra ing would count and such a training In cOllege would undoubtedly benefit a few f those to whom It would be valuable In doubt a supplemental sense r I very seriously however Jf It you can ever make ma The playwrights through a college course Cour se dramatists real training must be acquired by living by gaining a knowl be edge of life lite and ot of men under all con cc n circumstances Given the that and nd a dramatic faculty and the rest Is com co m easy Stilt Still this Is an interesting It suggestion n leads will to do speculation good as anythIng does that U I wonder though Mr Frohman I added quizzically where Mr Harris is going to find nine other theatrical man mc in agers to put up Globe York Ye rk |