Texas Woman's College of Ft. Worth with Misses Millsap and Coghill as teachers, has the largest department in the Southwest. This year they have succeeded in placing their work on university standing and will give full college credit, hereafter.

Meridian College, at Meridian, Texas, has a very enthusiastic little teacher in Miss Pauline Jordan, whose department has grown steadily since she took charge.

Westminster College at Tehuacana has set forth the principles of the school in a substantial way through Miss Eva Sweet and Mr. Meadows.

Other colleges through Texas, with graduates of Boston, directing, have done splendid work and the work is beginning to show its influence throughout the entire state.

A number of the graduates have studios in large and small towns and are doing a goodly work. Mrs. Scofield has a very promising work in Austin. Mrs. Harry Fugate has a splendid following in Waxahachie, and was instrumental in making the Waxahachie term of the Boston School such a signal success.

Last year a number of these teachers met at Baylor University to form a Texas chapter of the School of Expression. Miss Thompson of Baylor was elected president of the organization, with Miss Leary, vice president, and Miss Jessie Millsaps of Texas Woman's College secretary and treasurer. The league plans to do some constructive work this fall. If you are a graduate, or have studied in the school, please send your name to the secretary, so that you may take part in this work that will mean so much to the cause.

The work in Texas is just in its infancy, but great strides have already been made and the harvest is bountiful.

We are hoping we will be able to establish a permanent summer term of the school at Waxahachie where the Texas teachers may get new inspiration and the pupils may get an insight into the promised land that Dr. and Mrs. Curry have opened up for public speakers."

A GIFT TO THE BOOK DEPARTMENT

Saturday morning, June 18 at the Sims Library, Waxahachie, the students of the Waxahachie Term of the School of Expression presented Dr. Curry a gift of $100 for the Curry Book En

THE BOSTON SUMMER DRAMATIC TERM

May 18-June 29, 1921

Directed by Anna Baright Curry, Dean

BY A STUDENT

Gathered here are the representatives of many professions, and confessions: actors, teachers, singers, ministers, readers, orators, stammerers, settlement workers, business people, people who are heart-sick, people who are care-free. We represent various phases and stages of development, some of us are in embryo, some full-fledged, some are "has-beens.'

All feel alike the healthful and stimulating influences, which are operating to produce "Expression." The high goal, which is constantly kept before us, is LIFE, and its aim, CREATIVE THINKING. There must be a love of Truth, for Truth's sake, and the desire from within to express it.

We are reminded that only evil can come from a 'surface' religion. Just so, no good can be realized from superficial dramatic work. It must ring sincere.

Over sixty students were registered for the term and the plays chosen, were of all sorts. Perhaps as much was learned from observation of others in rehearsals and production as from personal participation in character and situation.

During the six weeks' course, about forty different plays were staged in varying degrees of "finish." These were selected and cast by the students themselves, and in some instances with the idea of impersonating them afterward. Under the careful

supervision of Professor Fallis, the results, in many cases, were remarkable. Frequent recitals gave opportunity for experience on the stage. In addition to the studio performances, several of the plays were repeated before outside audiences in Boston and vicinity. "The Mollusc" a three-act play, was repeated

twice.

Occasionally, the evening recitals were followed by informal dancing parties. House-parties and excursions gave the needed relaxation at week-ends. These social affairs were greatly enjoyed.

To a new arrival in the School, the spontaneity seems remarkable. Timidity and awkwardness vanish. Intermissions between classes and rehearsals are marked by friendly criticisms, lively conversation and dancing. The Meek-as-Moses

phere, of mutual helpfulness; in the sunlight of "The Smile," the ice of repression melts. Enthusiasm has been known to run so high as to result in the unconscious omission of the lunch hour.

Mrs. Harwood's classes in co-operative steps and folk-dancing afforded rest of an active nature at the close of each morning session. In some cases the "growth in grace" was nothing short of a miracle. Jolly shepherds, fearless Amazons, court lords and ladies developed as the days went by, while rheumatic automatons vanished from the ranks as if by magic.

The course in "Pageantry" given by Miss Ethel Priscilla Potter offered the newest ideas along that line of Expression. She emphasized the necessary historic background, the patriotic spirit, the glamour and the halo. Her talks have inspired many with the desire to see the Plymouth Pageant this summer. The class in "make up" held its sessions at eight in the morning. Mr. Domis Plugge, with his wide experience in this work, gave the instruction.

The last lesson was given by the Dean, Mrs. Curry, in her inimitable way. She took as her text the fourteen points in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and made their application practical along professional lines. We felt as though we had been at church.

After all the work was over, a "stunt program”, labelled "The Anticlimax of the Dramatic Term" revealed the School of Expression as the "Melting Pot" for all defects and troubles. The program which is given elsewhere in this number was much enjoyed by the students and the members of the faculty.

Resolution Unanimously Endorsed and Signed by Members of the Dramatic Term

Boston, Massachusetts,
June 29, 1921.

To the Staff of the School of Expression,—

We, the students of the Dramatic Term of the School of Expression wish to express in words, as we hope to in our work, our appreciation of the untiring efforts, during the past six weeks, of the staff, not only of our teachers, but of the everaccommodating office force.

To Mrs. Kempton we owe the kind and always encouraging help in the fundamentals without which our work is impossible. We can scarcely estimate the value of the co-operative steps in

with a thousand and one details demanding his instant attention, we have admired his unfailing kindness and patience in disconcerting emergencies as much as we have congratulated ourselves upon having his unusual knowledge and skill at our service. May he be the good genius of many Dramatic Terms

to come.

to us.

The fuller meaning of Mrs. Curry's daily work with us will grow upon us as we go on. We are conscious that a master hand is upon us, and we know not what we shall become. Her profound insight in interpretation opens great vistas of thought Whom she loves she chastens, but when she has shaken us out of some ancient habit, we realize that she has been applying the principles of accentuation to our case. We have been delighted by the humor of her demonstrations how not to do it, and we have thoroughly enjoyed her evident pleasure in the work of the Dramatic Term.

Our thanks and good wishes go to you all as the Dramatic Term slips away to the Maker of Dreams.

An Appreciation From a Member of the Dramatic Term
Arlington, Mass., June 28, 1921.

School of Expression, Boston, Mass.

From boyhood I have often heard my father speak in high terms of what your school did for him. After these six weeks of the Dramatic Term I can appreciate his feeling. As a minister I questioned somewhat the value of such a course for my personal needs but every day has meant a great deal in enabling me to see my weaknesses, the cause of them, and the way to overcome them.

I desire especially to commend the positive, constructive character of the teaching and criticism and the great amount of personal attention which I received.

Sincerely,

RALPH H. ROWSE.

SOME SOCIAL EVENTS OF THE BOSTON JULY TERM

The Boston July Term opened the day after the Fourth as usual, and closed four weeks later. It will be remembered not only for its solid work but for many pleasant social occasions.

On Monday evening, July 18th, a group of students from

entertainment to three hundred sailors.

They were enthusias

tically received and invited to give another entertainment which they did the following week.

Afterward, there was After that it rained,

On Wednesday evening, July 20, a picnic was held at Riverside and luncheon eaten by moonlight. dancing and canoeing on the river. some, but "that's another story."

The Dean, Mrs. Anna Baright Curry, gave a tea for the members of the July Term, Sunday, July 23, from 3 to 5. Delicious refreshments were served and everyone agreed that the Dean was a most ideal hostess.

On Thursday evening, July 28, a group of students gave a most interesting program at the New England Sanitarium in Melrose.

A picnic was held at the Fellsway just a few days before the close of the term. Later, automobiles conveyed groups of students for a drive along the North Shore. This gave our Southern and Western students an opportunity to see and hear the Atlantic. They realized then, as never before, that New England has indeed a “stern and rock-bound coast.

The Dean accompanied us on these outings.

A large party of the students attended the opening performance of the Plymouth Pageant at Plymouth, Mass, one of the most important, historical and artistic events of the year.

PAGEANTRY

Notes from lectures given at the Boston Dramatic Term by

ETHEL PRISCILLA POTTER, A. B. (T. D. 1916)

Occasionally, in reading, one comes suddenly upon a sentence in which Pageantry is referred to as a “new art.' This is, of course, absurd, but perhaps what the writer intends to convey, is that Pageantry is the popular revival of an old art.

I wonder if any one of us realizes how complete a picture of humanity Pageantry can be, how full of possibilities for selfexpression, for civic expression and development, for beauty and artistic representation, for color and sound, for the appeal to mind and heart through living and seeing scenes that are woven on the loom of the past- a past from which our present has been evolved. These scenes may be actual representations