Outdoor Theatres: The Design, Construction and Use of Open-Air Auditoriums (Classic Reprint)

In direct relation to the redeeming of country and industrial districts through constructive leisure, is the founding of outdoor theaters for the people. In the country, at present, there are few, or none, which are not privately owned, built usually for city colonies in the country. Yet no better investment vn pleasure and the resultant attraction of wealth could be made by a country community than an outdoor theater, properly conducted during the outdoor season. This consideration 1suggest to the officers of all local Granges. The Mac Dowett outdoor stage at Peterborough, N. H., is an excellent precedent for the foundmg of such theaters. The summer circuit of the Coburn Players demonstrates an already nationwide demand for them. The glory of the Greek outdoor theater need only be referred to, msuggestion. Under the sun and stars, as nowhere else, dramatic art becomes convincing to the people. In cities, the public parks and commons should certainly be provided with such theaters: an existing prejudice to the contrary in some cities is merely the re Ucof individualistic or Puritanical ideals. Since the parks are for the peoples civic pleasure, they should be made full and efficient instruments, by means of civic art. The outdoor theater at Berkeley, California, has proved itself the noblest direct art influence in the San Francisco
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