Get Money for it.

In the attempt to realise the first of these objectives. People's Theatre is offering prizes for tho best original full-length play, and for the best one-act play submitted during the coming season, in the case of the prize-winning play being actually produced, the author would receive in addition the customary royalties for every performance, which should constitute a considerable recompense.

While it is not anticipated that the plays submitted will be of outstanding dramatic merit, it is expected that their authors will endeavour to deal fearlessly and truthfully with problems of worldwide significance, in their special relation to the lives and happiness of our own people. For example, "high society" drama and "eternal triangles," however well they may be"written, will receive scant consideration from the Judges.

We are facing today a future of"incalculable uncertainty, and it is the vital issues which affect us all and up on which our future depends, that must provide the material for the plays of today if these are to possess any real meaning and importance. We need plays which will make people think; which will help them to realise that however remote the trends and movements in the rest of the world may seem, nevertheless they have their re-actions in New Zealand and must be understood If New Zealanders wish to cope intelligently with their own problems.