GRANVILLE BARKER WILL SPEAK ON RECENT DRAMA

Granville Barker, the English playwright and producer, will lecture on "Ideas in the Theatre" in Emerson D tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. This will be the only lecture that Mr. Barker will give in Boston which will be open to the public. He comes at the joint invitation of the departments of Classics and English.

Author, producer, trainer, translator of foreign plays, an actor himself, Mr. Barker is perhaps better fitted than anyone connected with the theatre today to speak on the subject chosen for his lecture tomorrow evening.

He conceives of the theatre as a community product; is against the star system and the "long run" engagement system. He considers the theatre to be the most important of all agencies as an instrument of social expression. Ideas and their execution are his predominant interest.

In addition to the staging of Shakespearian and Greek plays, Mr. Barker is widely known in this country for his productions of George Bernard Shaw's plays. Being at one with Mr. Shaw in his ideas of freedom of expression and unconventionality, Mr. Barker has here had the opportunity of making his stagings unconventional and vivid.

Among the most noted of his Greek productions were "The Trojan Women" and "Iphagenia in Tauris," seen in the Stadium last spring.