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FOUNDED FEBRUARY TENTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN, BY ALFRED G. ARVOLD

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO

The Quaint Cottage, the Snow-White Capped Mountain, the Tumbling Waterfall Were Painted in a Manner Which Brought Many Favorable Comments
THE LITTLE COUNTRY THEATER
BY ALFRED G. ARVOLD NORTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Fargo, North Dakota
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1922 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1922
TO MY MOTHER WHOSE VISION CAUSED ME TO SEE BIG THINGS
“The theater is a crucible of civilization. It is a place of human communion. It is in the theater that the public soul is formed.”
Victor Hugo.