DRAMA SCHOOL NOT TO MOVE NOW FROM ROGERS BUILDING

The decision of Cambridge municipal authorities to erect a new fire station on the site of the Rogers Building will in all probability not affect the Cambridge School of the Drama during the current academic year, A. R. Lovejoy, director of the School, stated yesterday.

Though $20,000 has been appropriated for the architects' drawings, no designer has as yet been named, Lovejoy pointed out. The time which will probably be involved in appointing an architect and a contractor by competitive bids, and in drawing up plans, will make any change in the School's headquarters unnecessary for this year, it is expected.

In the meantime, Lovejoy stated, the precarious situation which the School is in is fully realized, and it is hoped that friends of the institution will make it possible to buy the plot of ground on which the building is located outright from the city. The list of 41 members of the School's board of governors includes many distinguished names which may have influence. The plan to acquire the land is also looked on favorably by University authorities, it is understood.

That the land between Broadway and Cambridge Streets where the Rogers Building is located is the best site for a fire station to cover the University district has been disputed by some experts, Lovejoy stated. Fires occur most frequently in the area near the river, among the smaller wooden frame buildings, and these must be reached through crowded Quincy and Brattle Squares.

The site on which the octagonal Rogers Buildings a former Harvard Gymnasium, is located, formerly belonged to the University, but was exchanged for a plot near Langdell Hall.