The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-12
Movement Endorsed by Prom
inent State Of6cials-Other
Notes Of Social World.

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At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Young Peoples Theatre
Association, in the Free Public Library
yesterday afternoon, circulars We're pre-.
sented for distribution among all VINO
might be interested. They briefly QUE
line the aims and hopes of the asso-
citation, and announce that the member
ship fee viii be 81 yearly, and that upon
payment of this sum any Interested
citizen may be. enrolled as a member,
MISS Grace Frazee. of the College
Woman's Club, announced that that
organization would assume all response
bility for rehearsals, presentations OF
plays, etc, for the first year. She
also said that the club was trying to
secure a room where 'rehearsals could be
held. As soon as this is done a play
will be selected.
The association has nj idea of build
ing a children's theatre. 1t wants, II
possible, to use the various school audi
toriums of the city, giving one in each
district in regular routine. Casts Will
be chosen through the principals of the
schools, many of whom have Joined
the association. Only enough scenery
to give some semblance of realism will
be used. 1t Is the aim of the associa-
tion to keep the atmosphere as UNI
professional as possible. With rehear-
sails viii be combined practical lessons
in expression, repose, s~elf-control, swhal
is superior in the drama and literature.
A. nominal admission fee will be
charged. John j. G%ascoyne, chief pro-
baton officer, chairman of the execu-
tive committee, presided.
One of the circulars says in part:
at is held hat merely shutting the
public. theatres to the children would
still leave the undesirable show to
which they would return on reaching
permissible age unless they were edu-
Gated to appreciate something better.
1t is urged also that the basic and in
d~estructible nature of the dramatic in
stinct in the young should be recog-
nized and that, like other natural and
healthy impulses, it should be allowed
free play within proper limits and
should be directed to beneficent ends.
I'm the proposed theatre HI dramatic
training of the young performers will
be on simple. homelike lines. Over
strain and other features injurious to
the young Will be carefully avoided.
The plays win nave much of, the UNI
ambitious character of those .occa sion.
ally presented by the young people of
our churches and schools, but the long
Ter and more thorough training will
tend to more genuine and more spirited
acting. The eagerness to act will be
utilized to. make the theatre a powerful
Incentive to good conduct.
I'm the icase@of those. under IA the re-
1xA n rco r- .-fII ~ -. Ia 14 sn Tho n q -.
Ineon. 1t is sdesiled, however, to do
work among the large number of chill
dren in congested districts, who, from
unavoidable causes, are more or less
out of doors at late hours and are at
tracted by many kinds of questionable
amusementS."
The list of those who have Endorsed
the movement contains the following
names: Governor j. Franklin Fort,
Rt. Rev. Bishop John J. O'Connor, Rt.
Rev. Bishop Edwin S. Lines,s Francis.
J. Swayze, Supreme Court AAjustice5i
Frank H. Sommer. former sheriff; DIR.
Addison b. Poland, superintendent of
public schools; Prosecutor Wilbur A.
Mott, J.. ]. Gascoyne, probation officer;
Judge Simon Hahn, Frederick Freling-
huysen,, Herbert p. Gleason, Arthur w.
McDougall, secretary Bureau Of Assoc
ciated Charities; John c. Dana, libra-:
rian; Monsignor I. P. Whelan, the Rev.
DR.. James ]. Vance, the Rev. DIR. Will
iam H. Morgan, the Rev. DR.. Henry X.
Denlinger, the Rev. DIR. Edmund A.
WATSON, the Rev. DR.. David r. Frazer,
the Rev. George w. Corrigan, the Rev.
Louis Shreve Osborne. the Rev. Henry
r. Rose. Rabbi Solomon Foster, Rabbi
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