. The art theatre; a discussion of its ideals . LIBRARY OF congress 0 020S47 345 9. New York ALFRED A. KNOPF Mcmxvii COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF > Publishtd Octobtr 1917 . C r C^ HIV 24 mi PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ©ClA47921it j ) 1 6-U PREFACE This book has grown out of an unusual com-bination of circumstances. The first impulse to-ward its writing came when I was interested, morethan a year ago, in a project (lately deceased)for an art theatre in Berkeley. The problemsarising then sent me searching through a mass offugitive material. One result was a deter


. The art theatre; a discussion of its ideals . LIBRARY OF congress 0 020S47 345 9. New York ALFRED A. KNOPF Mcmxvii COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF > Publishtd Octobtr 1917 . C r C^ HIV 24 mi PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ©ClA47921it j ) 1 6-U PREFACE This book has grown out of an unusual com-bination of circumstances. The first impulse to-ward its writing came when I was interested, morethan a year ago, in a project (lately deceased)for an art theatre in Berkeley. The problemsarising then sent me searching through a mass offugitive material. One result was a determina-tion to prepare a model plan for an art theatrein a small American city. In the light of laterexperience I am duly thankful that I did not com-plete the plan with my then purely theoreticalknowledge. Instead I went to Detroit, where I saw fromthe inside the inauguration of activities at theArts and Crafts Theatre, and had to do, in asubordinate capacity, with all but one of thesubsequent productions. Last winter, as partialpreparation for editing the newly founded Thea-tre


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