| Show prohibition TO BRING COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE u Q E hazel mackaye advises using buildings as centers for drama community sings and enter tain ments why not turn the corner saloon into a community pl playhouse alliouse when the law la effects the closing of these gathering places asks miss hazel Macl yaye director of tile the Depart department of pageantry and drama of the rational young christian association 1 I went over on the hie west side of new york one night recently to attend a community drama niec meeting ting 1 miss mackaye says in explaining ber theory and and as I 1 was riding along I 1 noticed liow hou nany many saloons there were nvere one on ever every carner corner arid and another in the middle of the block it seemed all aust blazing wl hilll ih lights those lights not to go out with prohibition they ought to shine tor for something worth while to all of the people arid and what nhat bettor better than community drama and sings miss mackaye feels that tha alie war has ghen a groat great impetus to popular interest in drama arid and that through pageantry ail and drama a groat great deal in ili the way of can be effected fec teil I 1 through tile the community center it if it bo be in a district populated largely of one foreign nationality these people could pi present besent pageants of the life in ht their mother countries translating them into english so that americans and also the lounger en english speaking nien members ibers of their household could understand der stand and appreciate their traditions american art would be greatly enriched thus the drama of all of the nations whose peoples have settled in this ills country on the other hand band american ideals american history and american festivals even laws such uch as labor and minimum wage wag me could be interpreted to chece people by means of pageantry people have been coil learning not only to work together but to play together miss mackaye abc says particularly since the war when the people stood together in drives and largo large patriotic community entertainments the opportunity port unity to build up a groat great community organization Is now at hand anil and the time Is Is ripe for foi it why not il utilize ti lize the corner corder saloon |
