DRAMA LEAGUE OF AMERICA, an organization founded at Evanston, Ill., 25 April 1910. Its aim is to crowd out vicious plays by attending and commending good plays and building up audiences for them• through study classes, reading circles and lectures; to aid in the restoration of the drama to its honorable place as the most democratic medium for the self-expression of the people. As new plays are produced, the play-going committee attends them and reports by means of bulletins on those that conform to certain critical standards. These bulletins are sent by mail to all members of the league and to all affiliated clubs or other organizations that belong to the league. The league does not censor. If it approves a play, the members are urged to support it — if it dis approves, it remains silent. The circuit commit tee organizes audiences in advance of a league play in a small town so that the managers are assured of sufficient support to venture to bring to a town a play which otherwise would not have visited it. The educational department of the league is made up of experts who endeavor to introduce drama through its study courses in all study clubs of the country, to equip libraries with suitable works on the drama, in short, to create by every means a better understanding of drama. The league has made rapid progress,
having now a total of 60 branches, with mem bers in 48 States, in England, France, China, Australia and in Canada. Its total membership is 23,089, and through affiliated clubs over 200, 000. The fee for direct membership for the individual is $1, .for a club $2, for a supporting member $5, for a life member $100. The Drama League Monthly, its official organ, is published each month except June, July and August, and is sent free to all members. Wonderful pageants have been successfully conducted in many cities under its auspices, puid the League was entirely responsible for the nation-wide cele bration of the Shakespeare Tercentenary with pageants and masques in over 2,000 different cities. The national headquarters of the League are in Washington, D. C.