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Show 1956 Playwriting Contest Rules Announced By YMMIA-YWMIA The 1956 MIA Playwriting Competition is now open and closing clos-ing date is September 30, 1956, it was announced today by the MIA Drama Committee of the General Boards of the YWMIA and YMMIA, auxiliary organizations organiza-tions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Manuscripts are being considered consid-ered in four classes as follows: Class A for full-length plays; Class B for musicals; and Class C for short plays; with a special category, "Young Writers Section" Sec-tion" for authors who have not yet reached their twentieth birthdays. birth-days. All plays received will be rated superior, excellent or good for publication or reject. Those accepted ac-cepted for publication will be purchased pur-chased for the 1957 MIA Book of Plays at rates which vary with the rating of excellence. Full-length plays and musicals judged superior may be purchased for $300; those judged, excellent may be purchased for $200; and those good may be purchased for $100. Short plays judged superior may be purchased for $150; those excellent may be purchased for $100 and those good may be purchased pur-chased for $50. The MIA purchases the right to publish plays in the annual MIA Book of Plays and the right for regularly organized MIA groups to produce such plays w;thout further royalty arrangements. All other rights remain the property of the authors. Membership in the L. D. S. Church is not a prerequsite but all plays are subject to the standards stan-dards of that group. Plays submitted must be typewritten type-written without extensive handwritten hand-written corrections or notations and must be bound in a cover of some kind. They must not be postmarked post-marked later than September 30 1956. |