Committee on Theatre Gathers for First Time

A special committee appointed by the Board of Overseers begins today to consider plans for a College theatre. Theatre critic John Mason Brown '23, chairman of the group, will confer with President Conant this morning before opening the first meeting of the panel of experts whose of it is to make recommendations for the Board.

Brown was non-committal yesterday when asked what specific proposals might come out of the talks. He merely said that be is anxious to get the project going as soon as possible.

Informed and usually reliable sources, however, said last night that "the chances for getting the project through looked pretty good".

The meeting comes as a climax to two months of hush-hush conferences that have often left members of the committee itself is the dark as to what was happening. Harry Levin '33, professor of English who represents the faculty on the panel along with Archibald Macleish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, admitted last night that he had no idea what proposals Brown or other consultants might make.

Public Arts Centers Scrapped

Brown did say that he was sure the committee would not consider a proposal for a Public Arts Center for radio, movies, and theatre because the project was probably out of reach and because it might run into building materials trouble.

President Conant noted earlier this fall that one of the difficulties of the theatre project had been the inability of interested sponsors to agree on precisely what sort of building they wanted.