—Conclusion

Dear Sir,—While the propriety of VUC students playing competitive sports for outside clubs has been well proved, I am sure that there is nothing to debar students from extra-collegiate non-competitive activity. The whole basis for the sports clubs rests on competition. By no stretch of the imagination can drama be called competitive. Certainly no Blues are awarded for it.

Sports clubs, too, can show a reasonable standard of merit with room for all who care to play. The Drama Club can show neither. Once actors have gone beyond the ABC, they desire bigger and better experience. Hence the College members who join Repertory and Thespians. The experience gained here outweighs ten thousand times that of a mere play-reading circle. One might just as well damn those many amateur players who adopt the stage professionally to the definite loss of their amateur group.

If the Drama Club can offer anything to these errant members, let us see it. The VUC members in the Thespians have done their share in the past for the Drama Club, and it is no fault of theirs that they have become dispirited and gone elsewhere. They all, also did their share in Extrav. this year, and some for many years past.

An exodus of the leading members of a club can only mean that the fault lies in the club. It is up to the Drama Club to pull itself together so that it attracts and retains members. My own experience has been that in the Drama Club I was an off-sider, expressed and implied—"No, I don't see that we can make any use of you," but the Thespians thought it worth their while to expressly ask for my assistance in the "Merry Wives," and also for their next big show "The "Doll's House." Consequently I have joined the Thespians. Is "Constant Reader" surprised?