TO DRAMATIZE CONSERVATION 
STAGE AND MUSEUM TO JOIN HANDS IN A NEW OPPORTUNITY 
By Winthrop Packard 
The JourRNAL publishes the present sketch by Mr. Packard concerning museum work as viewed 
by poet and dramatist, for its suggestiveness. In respect to it relative to the American Museum, 
we would say that this institution holds the belief that an educational institution of the organization ofa 
museum should employ all the codperation possible and use all the methods feasible at any given period 
in the history of civilization, in order to make its service reach the minds and imaginations of the people 
who come to learn from it. The American Museum in New York is at present broadening its relations 
with the public schools of the city and employs moving pictures in much of its educational work. That 
it should at some time in the future use some form of the drama as one of its methods of education, 
does not seem an impossible step.— Epiror. 
HE poet’s vision has done much for together for the world’s welfare and now 
the world, and the dramatist vis- the poet comes forward with a new vision. 
ualizing the poet’s thought, has ‘The stage is to visualize conservation and 
done much. Often the two have worked make its needs felt by the public. 
: “Drama and conser- 
vation,’ says Percy 
Mackaye to whom we 
owe the new idea, “is a 
new coupling of the 
words, but the present 
age is restive of tradition 
and for the first time 
in history the naturalist 
and the artist of the 
theatre have come to- 
gether to consider how 
they can serve the public 
The nature student never 
goes to the drama except 
For the child the museum must 
put more beauty and dramatic truth 
into its exhibits of animals. 
Arvia, the poet’s little daughter 
who, wandering in the woods and 
listening to the hermit thrush, sees 
and hears as in a dream the story of the play, Sanctuary. Through her vision we see the dancing of the 
dryad in the realm of fantasy, hear the pleading voice of the bird spirit — and come to feel the 
cruelty that it is to take the life of a wild bird for its plumage : 
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