Dramatic Boom

The Little Theatre movement at Dartmouth reached a new peak this past month with the announcement that 23 of the College's 26 fraternities will probably enter student-written, student-acted, and student-directed plays in the fourth annual \interfraternity play contest. Last year's contest drew a record total of 15 competitors for the Mary Gile Cup, which went to Zeta Psi for its presentation of Brotherhood. The elimination series of the 1935 contest is scheduled to get under way in March.

The annual Experimental Theatre production of original one-act plays is scheduled for April. Last year some twenty manuscripts were submitted to Prof. E. Bradley Watson for preliminary judgment, and an even greater number is anticipated this year. Of the six plays chosen for actual production last year, The Delinquents by Maurice H. Rapf '35, of Los Angeles, was awarded the first prize of $lOO.

The dramatic activities of both the fraternities and the Experimental Theatre are fostered by The Players, whose work has taken on new proportions this year through the special grant of $ 1,000 which the trustees of the College voted last fall. The Players have presented Yellow Jack and Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates ofPenzance so far this year, and have recently announced What Price Glory as their next major production. Prof. Warner Bentley, director, and Henry B. Williams, technical adviser, are in charge of the enlarged program of The Players.