RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE HUMANITIES 273
school and cooperates with the university in
formal instruction. It carries four graduate
courses for students from the university and
provides free training forits own group of thirtyfive
students chosen from a large number of
applicants from all parts of the country. In 1935
thirty-four students came from twelve states
and one from Mexico City. The Play House
also carries on extensive work with high school
pupils in presenting selected plays for their instruction
and maintains a children's theater that
reaches all lower levels of the public school system.
The Cleveland Play House Foundation has
demonstrated that a leader with an understanding
of the needs and interests of a community
and with adequate support can establish a theater
of social significance. The
success of this
venture should have wide influence on other
American communities.
Yale University
Drama Library
Yale University has received an appropriation
of $10,000 for the development of the library of
the Department of Drama during the three-year
period September 1, 1935, to August 31, 1938.
The aim is to aid in developing the Yale library
of materials on stage production to the point of
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