G. L. added copy V. 1-38 Foreword THEATRE ARTS MAGAZINE is a direct outgrowth of dramatic conditions existing in this country to-day. For many years the established theatre, organized as a business, has held its great audience more or less securely, and has monopolized the important playhouses. Naturally it has made existing dramatic publications its trade journals. Recently a new generation of artist-workers — playwrights, actors, directors, decorators-has grown up on the outside, establishing its own experimental playhouses, and creating small but appreciative audiences. It even has pushed its way into certain strongholds of the older organization. But before its ultimate conquest of the "regular" theatre, the progressive group must have more experience — and, we believe, the broadening and solidifying influence of a journal of its own. 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. It will cover the fields of all the arts of the theatre; or, more accurately, it will cover all those contributive arts that are working toward that wider synthetic art of the theatre which is yet to be realized. 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 in non-professional channels. To help conserve and develop craetive 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. It begins modestly; but there is a good fight to fight, and it intends to grow to the task. It bespeaks your coöperation. P. S.-We intend not to be swallowed by the movies. |