Students should "Stick to Their Studies," But Not let "Play Side" of College life Be Neglected, Holds Albee

"Students who take part in college dramatics do not receive much training in acting that will be beneficial to them if they enter stage work later but the poise and elocution that is taught to them is something that is often lacking in actors that have gone on the stage without any training of this sort," explained E. F. Albee, philanthropist and head of the Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville theatres, in an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON "My advice to students is to stick to their studies more, but not to let the play side of their college life be entirely neglected.

Continuing his talk on the theatre he said. "There has been a great deal of talk about the decline of the moral standing of the stage, but this is largely because of the increased number of sensational plays that is being produced, and is one would only talk the time to look around he would find that an equal number of dramas are being played that are still as fine as those written years ago. It has always been my policy to put on shows to which anyone might take his wife and children and not feel that anything immoral was being shown before them nor anything that should raise questions in the minds of the young people."

Speaking of his start in the theatrical industry, he said that when he was 14 years old he received his first job in the old Boston Theatre, when he appeared "the Orphan Scene". Some years later he opened his first theatre on Washington Street with an opera company playing "The Mikado" in a continuous performance. "We nearly killed the actors," he said, but then actors at that time often suffered. Many times they had no car fare or even money with which to buy food."