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Show DRAMA LEAGUE CENTRE MAT BE FORMED i OGDEN A I 'Tama League Centre, as a branch of the Drama league of America, may soon be established in Ogden, according accord-ing to a statement of T. Earl Fardoe who Is one of the parties interested in getting a league center here. The I drama club members are all in favor I of getting a center established in Og- I den for the Civic good that might be accompished Ihioudi it. In tact tho fc Whole purpose of the Drama league of I America and Its centers is to aid in I getting the best plays before the pub- -lie The league states Its purpose to be I tq creati a permanent taste for good drama and to obtain larger audiences I for i)h best plays. It endeavors to I accomplish this by securing actual I tei attendance on plays bulletin- led by the league and by the study and I reading of plays outside the theater. The league idea, said Mr. Pardoe. is E to crowd out vicious plays by attend- I Ing and commending good plays and I building up audiences for them through study classes, reading circles b and lectures; to aid in the restoration k Of the drama to its honorable place as 1 the most Intimate, most comprehensive, comprehen-sive, most democratic medium for self- expression of the people. Mr. Pardoe recently received a let- tor from C. H. GItford. executive secre- I tary tf the league at the headquarters I in Washington. D. C, expressing I pleasure that the league was so soon I to have a center in Ogden S. H. Clark, one of the founder of j the league will be in Ogden on tho 3rd I and 4th of May to lecture under the I auspices of the Drama club of Ogden. I his services having been secured I through the efforts of Mrs. Dr. Morn II and others in charge of the local com- ' mitleo work. , It is probable that Mr. Clark will be I asked to give some assistance In or- ganlcing a league center while he is 1 here. |