Drama Center

ACTIVITIES LOOKING toward the proposed, million-dollar Dartmouth Center for Drama, Music and Radio are continuing on three fronts. A special committee in Hanover is devoting itself to perfecting the working drawings for the Center, while the alumni committee headed by Basil O'Connor '12 continues its efforts to raise the necessary funds, and the planning committee of the Dramatists' Guild of New York works on a tentative program for the summer drama festival which the Guild will sponsor in Hanover. The Hanover committee devoting itself to working drawings includes J. Fredrick Larson, College architect; Warner Bentley, director of dramatic production; Halsey C. Edgerton '06, treasurer of the College; and Thomas Tash, chief engineer for Mr. Larson's firm.

Robert E. Sherwood, president of the American National Theatre and Academy and formerly president of the Dramatists' Guild, has recently written to President Hopkins in praise of the proposed Dartmouth Center. His letter in full follows:

Dear President Hopkins:

On behalf of the American National Theatre and Academy, I beg to express our most emphatic endorsement of the plans for the Dartmouth Center. This great project, promoted by Dartmouth under your leadership, deserves national support, for the Dartmouth Center can be of incalculable value to the American people as a focal point for the study and development of the varied arts of American dramatic expression.

Your suggestion that the theatres and workshops at Dartmouth be used in future for Summer Drama Festivals has already been welcomed by the most distinguished people in the American theatre, and you may be sure they will be eager to make full use of the great opportunities offered.

The American National Theatre and Academy hopes to be able to cooperate with The Dramatists Guild in the organization of these Drama Festivals, with a view to making the Dartmouth Center a home for all that is best in our native drama, music, motion pictures and radio. It is particularly important in this tragic period of history that America's voice shall be heard; it is particularly appropriate that this voice should be raised in the halls of a great college, whose roots live so deep in the American tradition.

With every good wish to you, sir, and to Dartmouth College, Sincerely yours,

Robert E. Sherwood.

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