. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. artment of Drama and Music. w^as started with the belief that the really great things in art, dramaand music were being denied to the manof small means and esj)ecialiy to theinnnigrant, because of prohibitive ad-mission j)rices. The problem of theleisure time activities of working p^opledid not, at the time of the founding ofthis department, loom as large in theminds of social workers as it does now recognize that the founding ofthe new departme
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. artment of Drama and Music. w^as started with the belief that the really great things in art, dramaand music were being denied to the manof small means and esj)ecialiy to theinnnigrant, because of prohibitive ad-mission j)rices. The problem of theleisure time activities of working p^opledid not, at the time of the founding ofthis department, loom as large in theminds of social workers as it does now recognize that the founding ofthe new department was the begimiingof an answer to the eternal (|uesti()nHow shall the laboring man spend hisfew leisure hours j^rofitably? Two things the Institute hoped toaccomi)lish: First, to .secure for wage-earners, students and teachers, admissionto the best dramatic, nnisical and artevents at a price whicli they could affordto pay; .second, to build up an audiencethat would insure to the theatrical orconcert managers the success of a^ worthyplay or musical production. The firstof these objects was achieved with com- NEW BOSTON. A TYPICAL PEOPLES INSTITUTE-AUDIENCE parative ease. The second, for reasonswhich will appear later, has never beenan entire success. Co-operation was the keynote of theadministration of the Department ofDrama and Music since its was necessary to approach theatricalmanagers and to show them that it wasgood business to allow the Institute tohandle tickets for them, to be sold ata reduced rate to j)e()ple who coukl notafford to pay regular box-office prices,because it might often insure the successof a very worthy presentation. It is awell-known fact that the early eveningsof the week—Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-day and Thursday—are usually nightswhen a theatrical manager nuist liberallypaper his house in order to give itan appearance of being full. It wasmuch better business for the managerto accept fifty per cent of the regularprice of his seats tha
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