Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-09-18
Boston Woman Arranging to
Erect Model Playhouse.
She Aims at Moral Growth-Readins-
Room and Lunch Stand in Rear Of
Stage VIII Aid Comfort of the
Performers.

Boston. Mass.-Mrs. Josephine Gle
ment, probably the best-known woman
theatrical manager in the country, has
a scheme for a model theater which
she hopes to build within a few
months.
She has not yet decided where she
will erect the theater, but she has
abundant financial backing by per-
sons who have been attracted by her
success with the theater OF which for
several years she has been the man
ager.
1t is to be a theater in which ev-
cry seat will give an unobstructed
view of the stage. The cost Of a seat
will be ten cents and the entertain
ments will be of a type that will have
the approval of leaders in the "uplift
movement throughout the United
States.
1T will be different from anything
there is in the United States" said
Mrs. Clement. "Only performances of
the highest class will be given and
the theater will be unique, as it will
have light and air on all four sides.
1T will have dignifed entrances,
and everything inside will be arranged
for the comfort of the patrons and the
actors.
II believe that actors who have
brains enough to amuse audiences are
entitled to as much as the patrons,
and that is why there will be as good
an entrance in the back for them as
there is for the public in front.
Actors who are satisfied with their
surroundings will cooperate with the
management. and that means success
for the theater."
The Bijou theater, under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Clement, has made a fea-
ture of moving pictures. and It is her
intention to give pictures in her new
theater. but they will be Of a type
different from any now in general Use
There will be nothing in them to Of
fend, and they will be entirely free
from the weird features which have
brought forth Criticisms from clergy,
men all over the world.
Mrs. Clements idea is to have pic.
lures hat will educate and aid in up.
lift work.
Il am going to show pictures thai
will tend towards moral and intel
lectual development" said Mrs. Gle.
ment. Il intend to give one long
film. a short one Of a humorous
nature, two musical numbers and two
solos.
My scheme Is to have a theater
that every one will enjoy attending
and n in which a person will see
and hear for ten cents what now costs
not less than half a dollar. Moving
pictures so far have been used tc
amuse. to startle the imagination anc
to reproduce many things which the
public would be better without having
seen. These pictures will have nc
place in my theater"
Mrs. Clement will have the coop
Grafton of the Harvard Dramatic so
ciety, as she had in her work at the
Bijou, and Of many clergymen ant
city officials who have been foremosi
in the agitation against the moving
picture shows that are given in many
theaters.
Back of the stage will be a reading
room in which the actors can anus.
themselves between their acts. There
will be a luncheon, where they will b.
able to purchase meals at cost.
Young men and women will be Civ
en- an opportunity to begin at the bot
tom and work to the top.
u have always taken al interest II
young persons" said Mrs. Clement
"and every day am on the lookout TO
promising young men and women.
have a theory that most Of us can d,
something pretty well and have prov
en- it since l went into the theatrica
business,
A young woman came to me an,
said that she was good dancer.
gave her q trial and she was an ute
failure. She told me she could plas
the piano. l tried her at this and sh
WAS a success. NJ
Il had another girl tell me sh
could sing. She couldn't, butt fuun
that she was a splendid st~enographel
4 find good actors and singers q