Cost of Theatre Hinders Planners

President Conant is "really interested" in the plans for a College theatre, drama critic John Mason Brown '23 told the CRIMSON yesterday, but he said their hurdles still stand in the way of the project the raising of necessary funds, getting materials allocations from the government and finding a likely site for the building.

Brown in Cambridge for a meeting of the Board of Overseers, said the theatre would probably cost about one million dollars and would have a seating capacity of from 60 to 850. At least half the sum would have to go for backstage expenditures and maintenance costs rather then for the auditorium itself.

Such a building would be used for recitals, special lectures, and movie showings as well as stage productions, he said.