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American Agriculturist, September 8,1923 
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A Successful Theater 
Suffolk County Introduces One at the Fair 
L AST year, for the first time, the 
Little Theater found its way into 
the Fairgrounds' of Suffolk County. 
Fostered by a few practical idealists, 
and with the aid of some young women 
who had been studying drama, the 
small tent found a snug place in the 
midst of the noisy thoroughfare and 
the crowded booths. 
For those who undertook the project, 
it was an anxious few weeks before 
fair time. Would the people support 
it? Did they wish something more 
than fortune-tellers and fakirs, base¬ 
ball, horse races and vaudeville? And 
how could the Little Theater be brought 
to the notice of the fair crowds, and 
be made to appeal? 
There were no professionals to do 
the acting, training or planning; just 
ordinary people who loved the work 
and applied common sense to the prob¬ 
lems that arose. And so well did they 
succeed that every day saw throngs 
waiting for the next play to go on— 
a sufficient evidence that there is a 
real demand for worth-while entertain¬ 
ment. This year, those of us who are 
undertaking the work hope for even 
greater success, since we have some 
experience to build upon. 
Perhaps some American Agricultur¬ 
ist readers are contemplating the open¬ 
ing of a Little Theater and would like 
to know how a small group should go 
about it. The ideal arrangement for 
the County Fair is to have each town 
present three one-act plays, each play 
not lasting longer than one hour, in¬ 
cluding music. Here the plays are ad¬ 
vertised to go on at 1:30, 3:00, and 
4:30 in the afternoon. The mornings, 
of course, are spent assembling the va- 
vious properties and acquainting the 
players with the facilities, which, in 
a tent, occasionally call for a little 
imagination. 
This is our ideal, but we do not dic¬ 
tate too strenuously to the various 
towns, as to the length of their plays. 
Some groups prefer to give two rather 
longer plays and some may even have 
one pretentious one, in which cases we 
must change the hours of the per¬ 
formances and the admission charged. 
We do insist that the group shall rep¬ 
resent a community, or a society to 
which all members of a community are 
eligible, for it is community talent that 
we are encouraging, not that of any 
one faction or creed. We try espe¬ 
cially to interest young people of high 
school or college age, and are glad to 
welcome any club or society engaged 
in civic work. 
The Movement is Destined to Grow 
The Little Theater is, of course, not 
primarily a money-making scheme. It 
purposes to create interest in artistic 
expression, to develop poise and self- 
confidence, to give our young people 
a practical knowledge and an apprecia¬ 
tion of the elements that make up good 
drama and to raise the standard of 
amateur plays. When the Little The¬ 
ater finds a place in the County Fair, 
there comes immediately the stimulus 
of competition. Thus far, we have 
made no comparison of the plays given 
nor have we awarded prizes. But I 
believe that if all over the State, neigh¬ 
boring counties could be grouped, the 
best play from each county repeated 
in an inter-county contest, and then 
the winners of the county contests 
compete at the State Fair, a more or¬ 
ganized and uniform development and 
a more widespread interest would come 
to the whole Little Theater movement. 
Although it was not for money that 
we undertook the work, our Little The¬ 
ater did much more than meet expenses 
the first year, and we feel confident 
that this year it will really pay well. 
Our manager, that energetic soul whose 
business it is to make all arrange¬ 
ments, background, curtains, about tent 
or building, stage, seating arrange¬ 
ments, general advertising, and all the 
properties that the different towns re¬ 
quire, receives one-fifth of the gross 
receipts. From these receipts, too, 
each town is allowed $10 for music, 
and if any town wishes extra music, it 
pays the excess out of its share of 
the net proceeds. The general expenses 
involved in carpentering, labor, hiring 
piano, or for any other necessity that 
all use, comes likewise out of the gross 
receipts. Each town, however, pays for 
its own dodgers for the day (we find 
it a good scheme to have the program 
printed on them), and each one assumes 
responsibility for drawing attention to 
its attraction, and does its utmost to 
make its own day a success. When all 
the general expenses are paid, the 
towns taking part (in Suffolk there are 
five Fair days and so five towns) 
share the remainder equally, regardless 
of the amount they took in. This is 
an equitable division, since some days 
favor a larger attendance than others. 
To the press and officials of the 
County Fair, we owe much for their 
unfailing courtesy and cooperation. 
The county papers have never failed 
to print everything we have sent them, 
and have thus freely given us the pub¬ 
licity so essential to success. The Fair 
authorities have granted us every fa¬ 
cility at their command, although we 
pay no concession. We believe that 
the papers and the Fair officials of 
any other county would be just as will¬ 
ing to do all in their power to encour¬ 
age and foster the talents of their citi¬ 
zens and to add to their enjoyment.— 
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