IDEAS FOR A VINTAGE HALLOWEEN Coming up with ideas for Halloween costumes and decorations is a perennial problem that never seems to get easier, and it’s not a new problem. Our Great Grandparents had the same problem and so a crepe paper manufacturer recognized the opportunity and produced a neat little 34 page booklet that was [...]

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WHAT was needed to remake the theater was not better managers, better actors, better playwrights, but—fore and aft— that same sixth sense, a “national consciousness” that would enable us to distinguish the better ones when we saw them. We needed to think “theater” in America, not solely as a place for entertainment, but also as [...]

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A SPECIAL YEAR OF AMERICAN DRAMA: BY EDITH J. R. ISAACS (Chairman American Drama Committee, Drama League of America) IN China, any man who writes an unmoral play is threatened by the social religious code with a purgatory lasting as long as his play continues to be produced. This is exactly as it should be. [...]

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