Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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The N the fall of 1927 the Dramatic activities of the College and Community were reorganized and centralized in the Manhattan Theatre. This organization was an outgrowth of the Purple Masque players, who for twelve years presented the principal dramatic entertainment at the College. At the time of its establishment the Theatre wrote in prospectus : The Manhattan Theatre has been established in order to unify more closely the College and the people in the community. H. MILES HEBERER This splendid purpose the Manhattan Theatre has been promoting for five years. Outstanding successes of the professional stage have been regularly presented with casts made up of students, faculty, and townspeople. From Romance, the first play of the 1927 season, to the revue, Boom Boom, being prepared as this is written, the Theatre has presented each year five excellent plays of wide variety in type, in order that all Theatre patrons might find something to enjoy. Page 130

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GENERAL ACTIVITY - 12

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The Manhattan Theatre THIS season the Theatre has presented the following: Broadway, backstage at a modern night club; Dulcy, one might almost say a revival of a deservedly popular home comedy; Berkeley Square, resplendent in costume and charming in symbolism. And, for the first time in its history, a Musical Revue. HERBERT W. AVERY Since its founding, the Theatre has been privileged to have as its Director, Professor H. Miles Heberer, of the Department of Public Speaking, whose untiring ambition for its success and whose unusual talent in cast- ing and directing, have been largely respon- sible for the high quality of the Theatre ' s productions. Each year the Theatre is under the Business Managership of an outstanding student, who, this year, is Herbert W. Avery of Wakefield. Page 131