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CHILDRENS LIVES ENRICHED Thoughtful observers of changing condi ¬ tions on the theatrical horizon prophesy that the coming generation will be the most theatrically minded in the history of Amer ¬ ica An audience is being created for to ¬ morrow an audience which will more and more demand plays with living actors This interest in a legitimate stage is being fos ¬ tered and developed by the Federal Theater a project of the works progress administra ¬ tion through its childrens theater units unitsHallie Hallie Flanagan national director of the federal theater asserts that the most Im ¬ portant matter before the federal theatre is its cooperation with young people They peopleThey need the theater said Mrs Flan ¬ agan and we are giving it to them Our records show that we have played to more than 5000000 young people to the most of whom the professional drama was unkonwn Youth is certainly getting a taste for the theater
