The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-11
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

BY 20 TEN SHifFIN VIII &.
Life everywhere is very much the
same.
The difference is in degree not kind.
This has been said before but it
bears repeating.
People think how very different life
is in Podunkville and New York. If
you settle down to the routine, how
ever you'll find that conditions are
merely more or less accentuated &C
cording to their relative value in your
particular environ.
Theatrically, in instance.
In Richmond, Indiana, there is a the
atrical season as well as in New York
Not long ago branch of the Drama
League of America was organized in
Richmond and it's purposes stated, at
the time, in general way, as working
toward a better understanding be-
tween those of the theatrical profess
sion and the theatre-going public.
To stimulate both authorship and
production by the attendance upon
good plays, the study of the drama and
the encouragement of the best in dra-
matte art practicable in it's local en-
viron.
The League is national in organiza-
ton and catholic in scope, and is an in
teresting manifestation of the quicken
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country.
This column has animadverted fire.
quently upon the parrot cry-"nothing
good ever comes to Richmond"
You hear it on every hand.
But is it true?
No.
The whole trouble in the local theat-
rical situation-and other situations
for that matters that people don't
take the trouble to inform themselves
The writer belongs to the Drama
League and regards 1t as an interest
ing and practical organization
But Richmond doesn't need a Drama
League so much as it does to avail it.
self of the means of information right
in it's own town.
After the Irish Players had been in
Richmond-and played in this cultured
art center to a comparatively small
audience-numerous walls were heard
to the effect-"why! we never knew
they we're here"
Now whatever may or may not be
the individual or collective opinion of
the local newspaper as an institution
or the Richmond papers as representa-
tives of that institution, the fact re-
mains that the papers of this town are
purveyors Of information and if you
want to find out what's going on in
simple, easy method of reading the pa.
pers.
In the Palladium, in instance, is
what is termed the Theatrical calen.
dar."
1t is found every day at the begin
ming of the column under the head of
"Amusements
There you will find anywhere from
ten days to two weeks before a play is
coming to town, its date and the house
in which it will appear
these are mere facts and are set
forth each day for the ten days or two
weeks.
If you have no faith in the notices
which appear underneath-and have
no previous information as to the stat
us of the play or players-you can GO
down to the library and look up the
magazines, one of the best theatrical
magazines, "The Theatre being
found on the shelves in the reading
room.
This is monthly publication and
you may or may not find the informa
ton that you are after. But you car
ask for the back numbers if you don't
! find it in the current ones.
Or, you can stop at the news stands
and buy, or order, copies of the Bill
Board" or THE Dramatic Mirror" and
therein you will fnd, possibly, the ex
act information you want, namely, as