Dartmouth Center

THE Planning Committee for the proposed Dartmouth center for drama and music has recently given a great deal of consideration to the inclusion of radio in the year-round program of the center, and to that end has undertaken a series of conferences with leading radio engineers and with officials of the National Broadcasting Company. Latest architect's plans prepared under the Committee's direction include some broadcasting facilities, and it is possible that increased emphasis may be given to this phase of the center following the radio conferences.

Meanwhile, leading figures of the New York theatrical world expressed great enthusiasm for the Dartmouth center in accepting invitations from Robert Sherwood to serve on an advisory committee for the summer drama festival which the Dramatists' Guild of New York City has agreed to direct in Hanover.

Burns Mantle replied: "I believe the Dartmouth plan has great possibilities. We have long needed an intelligently organized drama festival in the East to consolidate the gains of the professional seasons of Broadway and the adventurous experimental seasons of the summer stocks. Count on me in any way that I can be of help to you and to the enterprise."

MASSEY ON COMMITTEE

Other acceptances and expressions of approval were received from Raymond Massey, Jane Cowl, Max Gordon, Arthur Hopkins, Arthur Byron and Robert Edmund Jones.

Walter Damrosch, one of America's leading .musical figures, has also written favorably of the proposed Dartmouth center. His statement was made as follows:

"I was very much impressed by the plans designed by Mr. Larson for a theater and opera house at Dartmouth, which should become a home for festival performances of drama and music during the summer months. The proposed buildings are beautiful in design and would admirably serve such a noble purpose. I can imagine that under a wise direction and amid such beautiful surroundings as the State of New Hampshire offers, Dartmouth might well become one of the great art centers of our country."

REVISED DESIGN OF THE DARTMOUTH CENTER FOR DRAMA, MUSIC, AND RADIOThe College architect, J. Fredrick Larson, and the Planning Committee of faculty and administrative officers.appointed by President Hopkins have submitted the above design forthe exterior of the proposed new Webster Hall. Contingent upon securing funds for itsconstruction, the building, housing a large and small theater and quarters for the departpartment of music, will stand on the corner of East Wheelock and College Streets. TheHanover Inn is shown at the right with colonnade connecting. The Committee is continuing its study, conferring with representatives of the student body and faculty andwith outside authorities, in perfecting interior plans for the building.