near African Americans. According to the constitution:A People's theatre is a very valuable institution. it provides the finest outlet for class emotions that can be organized. It serves as a spur to citizen ambition provides a partly self-supporting source of work and income, and a healthy kind of occupational therapy on a national scale for thousands. Unhappily, we have been trained to think of the theatre mostly in terms of commercial enterprise that is too expensive when it is worthy, and too cheap and boring when it is not. We know it too frequently as an investment for gambling show men, or as a playground for dilettantes and escapists who are unable to withstand the hard realities of life. We need a people's theatre which shall in effect be a national theatre. The people who want a theatre will have to organize it and pay a part of the expense for both its creation and support. Realizing the reluctance of the people to assume this responsibility, the essential burden of stimulating the development of such a project rests upon the shoulders of those individuals who are willing to assume this obligation, those who feel sincerely the call in a genuine quest for the content of theatre art, and by their talent, industry, and profound respect for a theatre they shall create. Stage productions Hits, Bits, and Skits (1940) On Strivers' Row by Abram Hill (1940) Natural Man by Theodore Browne (1941) Three Is a Family by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron (1943) Anna Lucasta by Philip Yordan and Abram Hill (1944) Garden of Time by Owen Dodson (1945) Henry Christophe by Dan Hammersmith (1945) Home Is the Hunter by Samuel Kootz (1946) Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton (1946) Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey (1946) You Can't Take It with You by Moss Hart and George Kaufman (1946) The Peacemaker by Kurt Unkelbach (1946) Tin Top Valley by Walter Carroll (1947) The Later Christopher Bean by Sidney Howard (1947) Rope by Eugene O'Neill (1947) The Show Off by George Kelly (1947) Rain by John Colton and Clemence Randolph(1947) The Washington Years by Nat Sherman (1948) Almost Faithful by Harry Wagstaff Gribble (1948) Sojourner Truth by Katherine G. Chaplin (1949) Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge (1949) Freight by Kenneth White (1949) Notable graduates Osceola Macarthy Adams Harry Belafonte Alice Childress Alvin Childress Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Roger