STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2059, sig. 109-7/66

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52-30 in particular, two books that aroused general interest and live discussion. Stanislavský ©My life in art and E. F. Burianova ©Come, people, to the theatres. I think the chapter on the amateur di-foul in E.F. Buriano's book is more than serious for us and you- are in time for the essence and tasks of amateurs at all. We have had a lot of trouble with the program because we have been very critical of the activities of those amateur associations, who are interested in everything else, but not in trying to do a good theater. Several articles about the t.v. folk operets, which have recently flooded our city and its surroundings, have gained many supporters between students and workers - nothing youth, but as many opponents. We want to publish our own magazine, which would basically serve to reorganize the regional theatre industry, which I have already written to you. Young theatres in the surrounding cities want to cooperate with us. This created the idea of bringing all of them together in a circle of fighters for a good modern di-foul with headquarters in Prague. We are only looking for good co-workers who may not have a name but a young head. You asked about our trip to Moravian Ostrava. Well: I could write a small feuilleton: Negotiating, entering, asking, getting everything possible and impossible etc. We didn't wait. I don't want to criticize their performances, but did we regret the fact that these amateurs think that their focus is to copy the program of official seasons. Why should we play dramas that survived x y repris in those and those cities?! Our audience has the right to get to know these games (if they are valuable), but that is why we want to organize tours of official scenes to our city. Our task is to search and experiment and mainly create from given possibilities. They are not only in theatres, but also in cultural sections. E.F.E.