Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 11 | Declares National Theater is Needed

DECLARES NATIONAL THEATER IS NEEDED Tl e need of a national theater In the 1 nlled States was the topic ot a talk which Charles B Hanford lecturer with the Captain Scott pictures, gave eater day to the teachers and pupils of the Monroe school, known as the junior high school Mr Hanford declared that there la an e er increasing tendency In this coifntry to treat plays in a7 light vein and that there Is sad need of a theater which wl I make a serious study of serl ous drama- Following his talk, which was atten I ely follow ed by more than 450 persons. Mr Hanford ga e a pro gramme of selected Shakespearean read Inga. using excerpts from Julius Caesar As Tou Like It and Romeo and Juliet