NATIONAL ART CENTRE
STATE THEATRE PLANNED TO HELP THE DRAMA COSTLY SCHEME IN ENGLAND British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. A National Society in London, under the control of a hoard of governors to be appointed by the Prime Minister and maintained by a grant of £IOO,OOO a year from the revefiue of the British Broadcasting Corporation, is recommended by the special committee which sat under the chairmanship of the Earl of Lytton. The committee was set up by the Government to frame a scheme for the establishment and endowment of a national centre of dramatic art. The report says the Shakespeare Memorial Committee could provide £IOO,OOO toward the amount required for the theatre, which after preliihinary expenditure should be self-support-ing. Su’ch a theatre would provide continual opportunities of seeing the best plays of all ages worthily presented.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 9
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137NATIONAL ART CENTRE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 9
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