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Excerpt from Saint Louis: A Civic Masque This masque is a contribution to a distinctive art-form of the Civic Theatre, in its large-scale aspects, as outlined in a recent volume under that title by the author. To witness the manifold growth of the civic theatre idea, and in some part to share in it, is to experience a kind of thrilling assurance of its large destinies. For some years past, I have had occasion to speak and write of the potential use and public need of the art of such a theatre - a dramatic art expressing community life, created by social-minded craftsmen, and participated in by representative numbers of the people. Not until last autumn, however, was the opportunity forthcoming for me to "hand over" some concrete sample of my meaning, as applied to the organized expression of a large city. Last autumn that opportunity came in the request of the Saint Louis Pageant Drama Association that I should create a dramatic work (the one here published) appropriate to be enacted out of doors by several thousand citizens of Saint Louis, in the great natural amphitheatre at Forest Park, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Saint Louis, in May, 1914. The idea of celebrating that anniversary by a form of community expression originated with Miss Charlotte Rumbold, whose significant work in the Saint Louis playgrounds has justly won national attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.