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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
PLAYING IN THE QUADRANGLE
and it has a cadet corps, a fife and drum corps, a Greek library, and a social club for women. Italians, Russians, and other nationalities are equally well provided for.
It has always been the aim of Hull House to give to the young people, living amid temptations of vice in the crowded quarters of the city, social amusement, and opportunities for healthful recreation under proper supervision and in good environment. The theory has been proved to their satisfaction that the love for recreative amusement is stronger than that for vicious pleasure, and vice is considered merely a love of pleasure "gone wrong." Recreative amusement, if properly indulged, may become an instrument in the advance of a higher social morality. Since the majority of the people who frequent Hull House come from countries where public recreation is a feature of village and country life, every effort has been made to provide wholesome amusements in which all may join.
No opportunity is lost to elevate and uplift the masses by means of instructive talks, lectures, and other forms of social intercourse. Luncheons are given to distinguished guests of all nationalities, and illustrated lectures, concerts and public receptions occur at frequent intervals. The large theater is usually the scene of
these gatherings, and its renown in the foreign quarter is great. It might be twice as large, and still not have room for the many who throng its doors at each performance.
Music and drama have full sway, for there are souls of poets and artists shut up in the cheerless dwellings of the poor — embryo sculptors, children of genius, and musical prodigies, whose marvelous, God-given talents would never be known to the world were it not for Hull House. Here the child with a passion for music is given a violin and taught to pour forth his soul in melody. The little girl with the sweet voice, and she of the nimble fingers and gift of composition, are encouraged to do their best, under the best instructors. The scientific little Russian, the artistic Greek, the musical Italian, all have their opportunity for expression and development.
Concert programs, such as many a fashionable audience would pay well to hear, are often given in that popular theater of the Chicago slums, and the audience is not lacking in appreciation. It is not ragtime, nor topical music that rivets their attention as the youthful musicians play, but selections from the compositions of Grieg, Schumann, Von Weber, Tschaikowski and Moskowski.
The music school at Hull House occupies a suite of six rooms, with win