AL 29AB -29-

 Tape A


M: He could do uh..... le instituted some things that I really liked, I thought,

 hey, this is the right way to do it. Nobody.... if ..... then once the....

 the curtain.... the curtain went up. If we say 8:00, the curtain went

 up at 8:00. Once the curtain went up the doors were closed and nobody came...

 nobody was seated after the curtain was up. We.... Y/ know we always made

 these announcements I'obody is seated after the curtain ws up' and the curtain

 goes up promptly at 8:00 and we always had people...... uh coming late and

 wanting to be seated afterwards." Hey I got tickets. I wanna come in/' And

 I remember..... uh Professor Constance firmly having the door closed and 4a

 eo-'P& smiling through the closed doors.... whoever was trying to get in

 from the outside to go away, the curtains up and nobody's admitted after

 the curtains up. So Dr. Tigert ........

J: I knew..... I thought you might say that. (chuckle)

M: Yeah. And yy know yA tell these people and and we did. The audiences were

 trained, they were imsined on time, and you can do it. If you do it you have

 to be gutsy enough. Lester Hale was gutsy enough to go ahead and close the

 doors and keep em closed. Constan t was too.

J: And where were the plays performed?

M: In the auditorium of what was then the P.K. Young School which now is Norman

 Hall.

J: Is that...... the auditorium part? Would that be on the first floor?

M: On the first floor.

J: Mmm hmm.

M: I think they've chopped it up into something else. It was probably the nicest

 little auditorium I have seen in all the time I've been playing around with