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IT S DONE ON An eating scene, staged by Miss Rose (standing), Frank Oliver (standing),
a regular feature of the WGY program, and to retain the group of actors who had given the initial performance. It was still considered necessary, however, to have plays brought within a forty-minute compass, made up of four episodes of ten minutes each. This time limit imposed considerable difficulty in some cases. For example, it took six weeks to reduce "The Garden of Allah," which consists of ten scenes and takes two hours for presentation on the stage, to the required length. After eight plays had been given, the popularity of drama by radio was plainly so great that the time limit was removed.
Beginning with "The Garden of Allah," the presentation of a play became a part of the WGY program each week, and the WGY Players became a definite organization. In all, forty-three plays, both dramas and come
LEGITIMATE STAGE — Cohn (seated), Miss Lola Sommers and Edward H. Smith (seated)
dies, had been given up to the close of June, when the regular players gave way, through the summer, to understudies. They have resumed their work this fall.
As showing the appeal this form of entertainment has made to the public, it is interesting to note that "The Sign of the Cross," Wilson Barret's well-known play, which was given by the WGY Players during Christmas Week, brought i ,500 letters in one day, while the total number received in four days was approximately 6,000. Late in J uly letters of commendation on the presentation of "The Green Goddess," which was presented on March 8, and which in some ways was the most success ful of the plays given, were still being received. The average theatre-goer has at least some conception of the back-stage apparatus used to help produce illusions— the devices for simu