DRAMA LEAGUE OF AMERICA

an organization formed in 1910 to stimulate the production and succe of good plays. It has local centers throughout the country. It establishes critical standards and has play-going committees who attend new productions and report through bulletins to their members on those deemed worthy. Reading circles, lectures and study cla es feature the activities of the local branches, the aim being to develop the drama as the most democratic medium for popular self expre ion and to build up audiences for plays which have earned the League’s approval. In pursuit of its objects the organization initiated what became known as the Little Theatre movement by means of which community centers are formed and each establishes its Little Theatre, where plays of merit are produced not ordinarily seen in other playhouses. The League’s propaganda work for good plays gradually spread all over the country and found a special response in small communities. The League’s membership is about 10,000. Its official organ is the Drama League Monthly, and its chief centers are Washington, D.C. and Chicago. seaport town, Norway; timber; sawmills, Pop. 1920, 26,174. 1913), educator, lawyer and author, b. West ford, N.Y. He received a primary school education at Albany. Afterwards he graduated from Albany Academy and served as a teacher for four years. Meantime he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He practiced law in Albany till 1887, entering the while into state politics and serving in the legislature where he devoted his energies to the needs of public education. President Arthur in 1884 appointed him one of the judges of the U. 8S. Court of Alabama claims. From 1886 to 1892 he was state superintendent of public instruction, and for two years afterward he headed the public schools of Cleyveland, Ohio, a position he relinquished to become president of the University of Illinois. In 1904 he left the university to officiate as the first comomer of education of New York ate. His writings embraced many brochures on educational administration and he edited a series of volumes, SeijCulture for Young People.