SAMUEL MACAULEY LINDSAY

Devoted friend and admirer of Dr. S. S. Curry and his successor as President of the School of Expression who is endeavoring to carry out Dr. Curry's wishes in regard to the development and permanent organization of the School. President Lindsay plans to visit each of the Summer Terms.

There are times when the road ahead seems so clear and unmistakably right that nothing short of total blindness can obscure it or excuse from following it. Such a road opened before the School of Expression when the question of who should be chosen Dean came up, and the Trustees, being men and women of light and not of darkness, promptly chose the one person best qualified by all-around training and experience to fill the position. Her name is Florence Lutz and she will be in Boston in August to take charge of her new job.

New, did I say? Well, not exactly new, for Florence Lutz spent fourteen years at the School of Expression as student and After that she taught four years in Professor Sargent's Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and four years as Assistant Professor of Public Speaking in the University of California where she now is.

Just why Florence Lutz should consent to exchange a very comfortable, agreeable and remunerative position in a healthful climate like California for a difficult and unknown future in the rockbound state of Massachusetts, might be hard to understand except that she too sees a road unmistakably right, stretching clear ahead. From certain words she has said that seems to

be the case. She feels that the School of Expression has a future and a mission and in the true spirit of service she comes to help the School realize that mission and achieve that future.

Miss Lutz has worked hard and studied and grown very much since she left the School of Expression as those who know her best, best know. As a reader Miss Lutz is known through the state of California from Oregon to Mexico. The hall where she gives her readings at the University seats fifteen hundred people and is always packed, with three or four hundred standing, when she reads. Last year she read ten of the current New York plays for the campus public besides a lecture-reading with Dante and the Divine Comedy as the subject. Her published program includes more than one hundred plays besides stories, poetry and humor.

Certainly the School of Expression may well be proud that it has at its call so fine an example of the best for which the school stands.

Dean Emeritus and Special Lecturer at the School of Expression and President of the Expression Company, publishers of the S. S. Curry textbooks on Vocal Expression.

DOROTHY SANDS

The School of Expression is fortunate in having secured Miss Dorothy Sands as head of the Dramatic Department of the School for the coming year. Miss Sands is a graduate of Radcliffe College, and a former student of the School of Expression. For the past three years she has been a member of Professor Baker's 47 Workshop company at Harvard University and assistant to Professor Baker in play rehearsal. Previously she attended the Central School of Speech Training in London, England. She has also studied with Professor William Tilly, formerly of the Phonetic Institute, Berlin, now of Columbia University, New York.

As an actress, Miss Sands has already achieved distinction. Philip Hale said of her interpretation of the part of Josefina in "The Governor's Wife", produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Idler Club of Radcliffe College at the Copley Theatre in 1920: "Miss Sands' impersonation was worthy of any professional and well graced actress in light comedy." Of her appearance in "Torches", with the 47 Workshop Company at the Morosco Theatre, New York, last winter, the New York Evening Post commented, "Miss Sands has a gift for running the emotional gamut that strikes fire"; and the critic of the Christian Science Monitor said of her playing in "A Punch for Judy", Philip Barry's three-act American comedy: "Especially in her emotional moments Miss Sands may claim attention. She made the last curtain of the Barry piece one of the most thrilling in New York, professionals not excepted.'

for one of her years, having taught Spoken English and Dramatics in the Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, N. Y., for four years, Voice Culture in Miss McClintock's School in Boston, and Play Production under the Boston Community Service.

Miss Sands was the author and producer of the pageant, "The Spirit of Niagara", given before an audience of thirty-five thousand people at Niagara Falls in July, 1919. While in Buffalo, Miss Sands produced a number of plays for the Buffalo Dramatic League. Later she was coach for the Cambridge Dramatic Club, and produced a number of Radcliffe plays.

At the School of Expression the coming year Miss Sands will be a member of the regular staff on full time. In addition to her regular classes in dramatic rehearsal and stage art and the usual studio dramatic performances, Miss Sands plans to give two evenings of plays in an outside theatre or hall during the winter. She will also offer a course in play production on Saturday mornings, in which she will discuss the fundamentals of producing plays with special reference to the needs of teachers and social service workers.

Miss Sands' work includes a class in farce with the First Year students; classes in dramatic thinking and dramatic rehearsal of a Shakespearean comedy with the First and Second Years; restoration comedy and modern drama with Third Years. Miss Sands will also give work in speech for which her careful training in that art eminently fits her.

IRVING STUDIO THEATRE

Students of the School of Expression will be glad to hear of the improvements which are now under way in the little Irving Studio Theatre of the School of Expression. When they return in the Autumn they will find a new stage equipped with curtain, lights and all necessary modern appliances for artistic production on a little theatre scale.

Miss Sands is most enthusiastic in regard to the new arrangements and the opportunities offered for good dramatic work next year.

It is only fair to say that it is to President Lindsay's hearty cooperation and support that the stage improvements are chiefly due.