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Show Kingsbury Hall at nightPLAY PRODUCTIONDramatic benefits come from a strong drama were given to a large number ofand thorough training in self-poise, confidence, and adaptability to audiences. The speech department of the University of Utah provides this training in play production classes.During the past school year, play production classes met three times each weekstudents by instructors of this department. Under the plan governing these classes, all properties, scenery, light effects and make-up were produced by the students. The main feature of this type of teaching was to develop the self-dependence of the student who was requiredin Kingsbury Hall. Lectures, general lab- to solve his own problems with only an oc-oratory practice, and practical acting in casional suggestion. This practical method has aided materially in making the students drama-minded, and has been instrumental in advancing the fine points of dramatic production.During the past year thirty-five one-act plays were produced with over two hundred students participating. Professors Smith and Babcock were directly in charge of the work and were aided in the interpretation of lines by Miss Redd. Some of the best plays given by these classes were " 'Limination," "Crude and Unrefined," "Helena's Husband," "Tombs," "Prideand Patches," "Famous Mrs. Fair," and Rex Kennard "TV, v "M "Student Manager of Dramatics Xne Very iaea'133 |