Carter, Huntly-"Newest Tendencies in the Paris Theatre". Eaton, W. P.-"Realistic Drama and the Experimental Theatre". "Experimental: A Review of the Plays Produced by the Ford, R. Clyde-"The Little Theatre and the Small Town". Hernani-Rollo Peters' Designs for.... PAGE "Realistic Drama and the Experimental Theatre". Reinhardt, Max-Scene from Production by..... Rosse, Hermann-Four Designs for Stages by.. Rosse, Hermann-"Sketches of Oriental Theatres". Sarg, Tony-Marionettes Designed by..... "Scenic Art of J. Blanding Sloan, The”. Simonson, Lee-"The Painter and the Stage". WITH this issue THEATRE ARTS MAGAZINE enters upon its second year. It faces the future with new faith that there is room in America for one magazine devoted to the serious side of theatre art. The four issues that now stand on the shelf have been largely experimental, and there will be further changes and adjustments before the publication finds its exact place. But it has proven that a definite need exists for a thoroughly progressive dramatic journal, a publication devoted to the art rather than the business of the theatre. The outstanding change at the beginning of the new year is one of location. In Detroit we were necessarily isolated artistically and dramatically. In New York we shall be in touch not only with all the "regular" producing theatres, but with the largest of all the scattered groups of insurgent producing companies. The publication will remain primarily the organ of the propressives - which means that we shall maintain contact with the experimental playhouses throughout the country. On the other hand we recognize that we have been too narrowly concerned with a limited movement; that in order to record all signs of progress toward a better theatre art in this country it is necessary to examine all new productions in both the regular and the insurgent playhouses. We shall attempt to deal justly with the business theatre, while continuing to resist those forces of commercialization and vulgarization upon which we have declared war. For the rest we re-subscribe to certain aims set forth in the foreword of our initial issue: "THEATRE ARTS MAGAZINE is designed for the artist who approaches the theatre in the spirit of the arts and crafts movement, and for the theatregoer who is awake artistically and intellectually. To these it will offer a news medium and a forum for the expression of original ideas. Its material will be sought not alone in the little theatres and art theatres, but wherever the creative spirit touches theatre work, whether in professional or non-professional channels. "To help conserve and develop creative impulse in the American theatre; to provide a permanent record of American dramatic art in its formative period; to hasten the day when the speculators will step out of the established playhouse and let the artists come in: such are the aims of THEATRE ARTS MAGAZINE." And finally we repeat: "We intend not to be swallowed by the movies." S. C. |