Review of reviews and world's work . issignificant and gratifying,however, to realize thatthe American theater is onthe point of realizing itsresponsibilities and of be-coming the ally ratherthan the enemy of educa-tion, of art, and of mor-als. It is, as the editor ofthe Dial so aptly puts it,an indication that the pub-lic is beginning to realize the elementary proposi-tions that the theater maybe made a worthy educa-tional agency, and that assuch it should no more beexpected to pay its ownway than the college, thechurch, the public library,or the art museum. Anumber of the best, mostatrical s
Review of reviews and world's work . issignificant and gratifying,however, to realize thatthe American theater is onthe point of realizing itsresponsibilities and of be-coming the ally ratherthan the enemy of educa-tion, of art, and of mor-als. It is, as the editor ofthe Dial so aptly puts it,an indication that the pub-lic is beginning to realize the elementary proposi-tions that the theater maybe made a worthy educa-tional agency, and that assuch it should no more beexpected to pay its ownway than the college, thechurch, the public library,or the art museum. Anumber of the best, mostatrical situation in our own country, despite scholarly representatives of the Americanall the charges that are hurled against it of stage will appear at the New Theater. Lightcommercialism and low standards, has now opera will also be sufficiently near to the situation in England during Shakespeares time to per- ^^^^^ For three decades the name of mit of there being established in the Ameri- of Cesare Lombroso has been fa-. Photojraph bv FroKn V. V. NEW YCRKS THEATER. (The New TlieattT, recently erected at Sixty-second street ant! (cntratIark West, New York City, which will be open to the public on the 8thof the present month.) can metropolis a really independent theater. Lombroso. mous throughout the scientific The much-heralded New Theater in upper world as that of an original and keen thinker New York City, which begins its work of in the philosophy of crime and its treatment lifting our drama to loftier ideals on the and causes. Although at first encountering eighth day of the present month, is neither much opposition, the theories of this eminent an endowed nor a subsidized theater. It has Italian alienist and anthropologist have been been established by a group of wealthy men finally accepted by scientists as establishing who have invested their money with no other certain principles which have radically al- purpose in view than to provide a p
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