DARTMOUTH DRAMATICS OBTAIN SERVICES OF NEW COACH

What is considered by many to be the rebirth of Dartmouth dramatics is in the process of taking place, with the appointment of Mr. Lawrence Paquin as coach of thespian aspirants. It was not so very long ago when the Dartmouth Players were producing in a capable manner plays which were starring on Broadway, and this day is dawning anew, it seems, with the announcement that material production this year will be selected principally from the works of Eugene O'Neill, Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Booth Tarkington, George M. Cohan and other modern, recognized playwrights.

The many radical changes under consideration deal principally with the type and number of plays that are to be shown, and in the series of tryouts and subsequent selections of casts. Something new also being done under the direction of Mr. Paquin is the opening of a playwrighting course, in the English 15 Department. About fifteen students meet once weekly with Mr. Paquin for the reading and discussion of plays written by members of the group. It is possible that later on some of the better plays by Dartmouth undergraduates will be produced by The Players in the Little Theatre.

Four productions are scheduled to appear before the Christmas holidays. In the meanwhile much work is being put on the book and lyrics of the annual musical production, which will be staged for the first time in Robinson Hall at Carnival time.