SCHOOL OF DRAMA TO OFFER COURSE IN STAGE DESIGN

At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Cambridge School of the Drama Friday night it was decided that definite steps should be taken to include the teaching of stage design, stage lighting and the practical arts of the theatre. The specific details of this new policy of expansion were not announced although they will be included in the new school bulletin which is to be published soon.

At the same meeting there were also several nominations to the Board of Governors. This list included Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, lsaac Goldberg '10, and R. Dana Skinner '15.

Some changes were also made in the present curriculum of the school. The course treating with the contemporary drama will be divided into the usual we sections with a half year each to the European and American theatre. This course, however, will be given but once a week in meetings of two hours duration. The first hour is to be devoted to lecturing by the instructor while the second part of the period will be given over to discussion with emphasis on criticism of plays then current.

The course in playwriting will be divided into two sections. The first of these will be for those without previous instruction in play writing while the second is designed as an advanced course for those with previous instruction either in this school or elsewhere.

The Executive Committee of the school, consisting of Maurice Wertheim '06, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Lee Simonson '09, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, H. W. L. Dana '03, and John Masoq Brown '23 will remain the same, as will the Student Advisory Committee. The practice of having lectures by the visiting faculty will also be continued.