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 THEATRES, FESTIVALS, SPORTS 67 terest and bold advance," and affirms that " everything a theatre-goer wishes from Strind- berg and Maeterlinck to musical burlesque can be had here at all seasons." " While we brag of our crops," continues a journalist-spokesman, "it has come about that the growth of dramatists and local histrionic notables has kept pace with the output of lemons and sugar beets." Los Angeles theatres are open all the year, for the summer is never too warm nor the ardour of the theatre-going population ever too cool to make necessary their closing. Many plays have come to success here before being shown in the East. " Two-dollar drama " is seen at the Ma- jestic, the Mason, the Morosco and the Audito- rium. The Burbank (prices 10 to 75 cents) has a capital stock company. The experiment of a Little Theatre is new to Los Angeles. Plays erudite and of a tenor un- popular, in the sense that they do not appeal to the populace, are to be undertaken with the patronage of an ambitious list of guarantors. In contrast to this theatre's miniature quar- ters and its large aims are the blithe resorts of the vaudeville Muse, the glittering Orpheum, the Empress and Pantages', and the Hippodrome which " runs " six " shows " a day and sells its 3000 seats at 10 cents each. Several concerts a season are given by the Los