Summer Drama Festival

DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN the past month in the plan of establishing a Summer Drama Festival in Hanover have included conferences in New York between representatives of the Dramatists' Guild and the College. On November 10 Prof. Warner Bentley, director of the Players, and Basil O'Connor '12 met with the president and secretary of the Guild, Robert E. Sherwood and Luise Sillcox, and with Barrett Clark, executive director of the Guild. Mr. O'Connor is chairman of an alumni committee now being formed for the purpose of securing funds for construction of the million-dollar theater and auditorium plant in Hanover.

Although definite plans for the Drama Festival cannot be made until financing of the huge Dartmouth theater plant is solved it was agreed at the conference that a committee should be named to formulate a tentative program for the Festival. Mr. Sherwood will select representatives of the theater to include actors, actresses, playwrights, directors, designers, and managers as a first step in evolving tentative plans for the project. Care will be taken, he said, to make every step in the process of establishing the Summer Drama Festival a cooperative movement, representing all elements in the American theater. The Festival proposed for location at Dartmouth is visualized as a move of national scope and importance.