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 THEATRES, FESTIVALS, SPORTS 65 public concerts are given in the theatre, and here the splendid symphony orchestra of the University is heard at stated seasons. California's favourable all-the-year climate has fostered the arrangement of many al "fresco auditoriums in the forests of the State and near the sea. The most renowned woodland theatre is that in which the Bohemian Club gives its annual Jinks in August, among the sequoias near Caza- dero in Sonoma County, a short way north of San Francisco. Every alternate year (1915-17-19) Nazareth, the " Passion Play of Santa Clara," is produced by students of the Roman Catholic col- lege near San Jose, olive trees, oaks and hills form- ing a setting for this work by a distinguished alumnus. There is a forest theatre at Carmel-by-the-sea near Monterey. A short distance from it is the coast Chautauqua at Pacific Grove, where con- certs and lectures are given to vacation throngs. A bosket is the scene of theatricals in which guests of the Hotel Redondo at Redondo Beach take part, assisted at times by professional play- ers. The Venice auditorium has 500 seats. A large sum is spent every year upon the music given here. Standard plays are produced by an excellent stock company at the Long Beach theatre on the Pike, and Chautauqua courses by prominent instructors