The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 14, 1917, Page 13

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One day Arvold got a request from a teacher in the country for a play suitable for presentation by home tal- ent. He supplied it and then got think- ing of the possibilities of development of the home talent pldy. And this was the real birth of the notion of the Little Country Theater. He determin- ed to establish a model theater at the college. STUDENTS WRITE PLAYS FOR THEATER Besides fitting up the platform of the old chapel at the A. C. as a stage, with curtain, footlights and simple scenery, Arvold overhauled adjoining rooms to show rural communities how they could arrange their own halls— consolidated schools and the like—to be real community centers. The inside | of the administration building tower was established as ‘“the coffee tower.” In this cosy, round room, meetings could be held, and have been held, to talk plays, debates and organization plans, over cups of coffee and trays of sandwiches. Up in what had been an unused attic, Arvold established what he called “the hayloft”, partitioned off Arvold’s work is carrying the truth to the peo- ple. The standpat politicians who think this motto is a fine thing to be preached don’t like to see it put into practice. has come another development. Two students, Matthias Thorfinnson and Eggert V. Briem, one a native Ice- lander and the other of Ice- landic descent, wrote a play, “The Raindrops.” The title is allegorical, referring to the merging of raindrops, representing different nationalities, in the stream of American citizenship. The play deals with this problem, It was a real problem play, as far as the playwrights were ' concerned, their problem being how to get any scenery suitable for its production. None of the stock scenery of the theater would do. NEED FOR SCENERY— S0 BOYS PAINT IT “Go ahead and paint your own Ice- landic scenery,” suggested Arvold. The young playwrights Ilooked sur- prised, but agreed to try it. During the Christmas holidays they did their work. Neither had 'painted anything more ambitious than a fence or the side of a barn before, but they deter- mined to learn. They had worked out their play line by line, speaking each line, to see how it would sound, before they wrote it down. They tackled the scene painting job in the same dogged manner. Each night they started their work at 8 o’clock and kept at it, often until an early hour in the morning, determined to finish it during the short vacation. Finally, two or three min- utes before midnight of December 31, A. G. Arvold in his office. The bundles on his desk are the package library num- bers returned within one week from various parts of North Dakota. into dressing rooms, property rooms and storage space for his package li- brary matter. The Little Country Theater players started with the presentation of ready- made plays. Those dealing with rural problems, especially the back-to-the- farm movement, were given prefer- ence. Gradually, though, the players developed ability to prepare their own vehicles. Under the direction of Miss Abbie Simmons, instructor in the drama, Charles G. Carlson, one of the students, wrote “For the Cause,” a play dealing with: the recent labor troubles in Montana mines. William V. Arvold, a graduate, wrote “The New Liberator,” and both these plays were produced creditably. Then “The Black Rust and the Wheat”, an interpretive dance and pantomime, was staged un- der the direction of Marie Kammeyer of the college. Historical pageants, such as “Sitting Bull and Custer,” were produced on the college grounds. All attracted marked attention. Final- ly, when “The Farm Crop Family Re- union” was staged at the Fargo audi- torium, a capacity crowd of 8,000 packed the building and hundreds of latecomers were turned away at the doors, giving some indication of the popular idea of what the Little Coun- try Theater players have been accom- plishing. Within the last few months there 1916, the last brush stroke was given and the amateur playwrights faced the new year with their scene painting done. The play was produced last Febru- ary, with lighting effects to imitate the northern lights and the midnight sun, also worked out by the authors, and the original scenery, representing the Iceland mountains of the authors’ home, with a lofty snowclad peak in the background and a tumbling water- fall in the foreground, proved one of the hits of the production. CALLS IT LABORATORY TO HELP FARMERS The object of the Little Country Theater is not to train professional actors, playwrights or scene painters. The main object is not even to produce entertaining plays. Arvold regards the Little Country Theater at the college as a sort of laboratory in which he can study what the farmer needs to allow him to ex- press himself. “What the farmer needs 1is to be able to find his true expression in the community,” Arvold says. “He has been looked upon too long as nothing but a producer.- He has looked upon himself this way. There has been too much of a tendency among farmers to talk crops-and nothing but crops, when they get together. “The big problem of agricultural life ADVERTISEMENTS LEARN TO RUN AUTOS AND TRACTORS You ecan prepare your- self for big wages—do it now before harvest and get quick returns on your tuition. 3 FARMERS Send in your boys or come yourselves. You can save repair bills, expen- sive engineer’s wages, de- ‘lays, ete., By Taking a Course in Qur School This year you must get the maximum from your machine at the minimum expense. We teach you how. Classes forming now and doing practical work. 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