The woman citizen's library : a systematic course of reading in preparation for the larger citizenship . ics will be correlated with pageantry. TheGreek games will be revised, and the outdoor theatreswill give great opportunities for displays of physicalskill and endurance. These pageants will encourage manufacture, forthey will create a demand for artistic stuffs and fur-nishings. As the final test of a peoples civilizationis their way of employing their leisure, the Civic The-atre will be a real civilizing agency. Holidays willno longer mean aimless wanderings through the streets,crowding in
The woman citizen's library : a systematic course of reading in preparation for the larger citizenship . ics will be correlated with pageantry. TheGreek games will be revised, and the outdoor theatreswill give great opportunities for displays of physicalskill and endurance. These pageants will encourage manufacture, forthey will create a demand for artistic stuffs and fur-nishings. As the final test of a peoples civilizationis their way of employing their leisure, the Civic The-atre will be a real civilizing agency. Holidays willno longer mean aimless wanderings through the streets,crowding into inane vaudeville shows, or increasedpatronage of saloons and gambling houses; — they willmean delightful hours filled with great civic pageantsin which the people themselves will be both actorsand spectators. There will doubtless still be commercial theatres andmusic halls, but their standards will rise to meet theenlightened competition of the Civic Theatre, and theconstantly improving tastes of the people. The principal building of the Civic Theatre will itlic Owned Theatres^ Concert I
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