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Many housing projects also bring their teen-age residents
into hobby groups. Settlement houses have long understood
the value of arts and crafts for all.

Dramatics

Ever popular high school dramatics have multiplied into
extensive out-of-school theatre activities in many com-
munities. Often full-length and one-act plays are produced
on regular schedules. Boys and girls act in them, build
scenery, hunt props, and do the thousand and one things
necessary to get a play before amateur footlights.

Settlement houses, housing projects, church groups and
youth centers also find in dramatics a first rate creative
activity. One metropolitan church presents two full-length
playsa year and many one-act plays. Puppet shows furnish
an interesting variation.

Dramatic coaches and directors can be found in most com-

“munities. Members of adult Little Theater groups, radio

actors, production men, and the housewife who once taught
dramatics, are all potential directors.

THE MILWAUKEE PROGRAM

Among recreation programs worthy of study by commu-
nities embarking on experiments of their own is that of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a city-wide recreation program
has been an integral part of community life for more than
thirty years.

Organization

Milwaukee’s recreation is directed by the Department of
Municipal Recreation and Adult Education, a division of the
public schools. A State law places organization and financ-
ing in the hands of the School Board, which can request a
lax levy of 8 mills on each dollar of city valuation. The
money must be used exclusively for recreation.

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