ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHERS Appleton, D., & Co., 35 West 32nd Street, New York City Baker, Walter, & Co., 41 Winter Street, Boston, Mass. Century Co., The, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City Denison, T. S., & Co., 623 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York Dutton, E. P., & Co., 681 Fifth Avenue, New York City Eldridge Entertainment House, Franklin, Ohio French, Samuel, 25 West 45th Street, New York City Greenberg, Publisher, Inc., 112 East 19th Street, New York City Modern Library, Inc., 20 East 57th Street, New York City Old Tower Press, 59 East Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. Penn Publishing Co., 925 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Playground and Recreation Association of America, 315 Fourth Avenue, New York City Remington, Norman, Co., 347 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston, Mass. Swartout, Norman Lee, Summit, New Jersey Witmark & Sons, 1650 Broadway, New York City It is often convenient to order publications from one source. All dramatic books may be obtained from The Drama Book Shop, Inc., 29 West 47th Street, New York City. Book Reviews MAY DAY-CHILD HEALTH DAY, 1927. American Child Health Association, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York City The American Child Health Association has issued an attractive report of the results of the 1927 campaign for focussing attention on child health. The chairmen of the May Day Committee in each state-and many of the chairmen are associated with the state departments of public health-tell in this report just what their states did in carrying out a child health program in which May Day is the accounting day when each community takes inventory of its work. The report also tells what was done through the schools, through organizations of various kinds, through the churches, libraries, magazines and the press. Please mention THE PLAYGROUND when writing to advertisers Full orchestral volume over the whole playground HAVE the Orthophonic Victrola Electrola for your outdoor programs. Great orchestras pour their music from it in full power. The marchers close at hand, those at the far corners of the field, hear "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Marche Militaire," as they would hear Sousa's Band itself, or Hertz and the San Francisco Orchestra, playing on that field. The music is as open, as unrestricted as that. The Victrola-Electrola No. 8-60 is an Orthophonic Victrola with a matchless musical performance for indoor work. It is an Orthophonic Electrola with an electric amplifying system carried to its highest development for outdoor performances. You can regulate its music from a whisper to tremendous force. It gives you full orchestrations, full symphonies, under your control for indoors and out. Attach it to an electric light socket; no batteries are needed. It uses little current. Entire equipment is in its cabinet a Credenza of outstanding beauty Practice and perform to the Polish National Orchestra. Sing in chorus with the Associated Glee Clubs of America. . List price of the Victrola-Electrola is $650. Arrange a payment plan with your dealer. Or with us. The Educational Department VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO. HIS MASTERS VOICE CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, U. S. A. Please mention THE PLAYGROUND when writing to advertisers SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS View of Hollywood Bowl, located in foothills north of Hollywood. This property consists of a site of fifty-nine acres and has a seating capacity of 19,262 persons. By means of reorganization of the management in 1924, the County acquired title to this property, subject to a ninety-nine-year lease, with renewal privilege for an additional ninety-nine years, executed in favor of the Hollywood Bowl Association. Numerous activities conducted in the Bowl have included Symphony Concerts, Opera Performances, Dramatic Productions and Easter Sunrise Services. Many of the world's most eminent conductors and noted artists have participated in these programs, although admission fees charged have been merely nominal. The Playground VOL. XXII. No. 2 The World at Play Gifts for Boys' Work.-Harry E. Burroughs, founder and sponsor of the Newsboys' Foundation, Boston, has bought the former Elks' Home on Sumner Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, for $200,000. It is expected that this building will be used by some 4,000 boys. Mr. Burroughs has set aside $100,000 additional to provide for the carrying out of the educational program of the Newsboys' Foundation. The Boys' Club of Bridgeport will receive approximately $33,000 under the will of Mrs. Clara Louise Baker of Bridgeport. Frederick D. Baker of the same family has previously bequeathed $15,000 to the club. Mrs. Kenneth F. Wood of Pawtucket, R. I., has recently financed the improvements made in the swimming pool and natatorium at a cost of more than $25,000. The number of men and women making large gifts for the boys and girls of America is increasing. For the Boys of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. -In honor of the late Zenas Crane of Dalton, Mass., his son, Z. Marshall Crane, has given $150,000 for an addition to the Zenas Crane Memorial building, which houses the Pittsfield Boys' Club. The new building, which was dedicated on March 16th, contains a swimming pool 75 feet long and 35 feet wide and an auditorium which seats 658 people. A Bequest for a Band.-The will of Charles A. Jones of Keene, New Hampshire, provides $1,000 for a municipal band. Joseph Lee Honored. In celebration of the opening of the one hundredth playground in the city of Boston, and to honor Joseph Lee, President of the P. R. A. A., and formerly a member of the Boston School Committee, a dinner was given on March 12th by the playground workers. MAY, 1928 More than 250 people attended. Miss Julia Murphy, Supervisor of Playgrounds, was in charge of the program and Frederic J. O'Brien, Associate Director of Physical Education of the Boston School, was the toastmaster. Dennis McCarthy read a poem which he had written for the occasion. Hamilton Receives More Play Space.-As a Christmas gift to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, C. S. Wilcox has given to the Playground Association a piece of property necessary for the extension of the Wilcox Playground, previously given the city by Mr. Wilcox. The value of the property is $2,400; of the original playground $3,400. Following the announcement of this gift, two friends of the Association each offered $500 toward the installation of a wading pool on the playground. A Memorial Community House in Salem, Ohio. Some time previous to 1919 W. H. Mullins of Mullins Body Corporation, Salem, Ohio, donated to the citizens of the town a site for a memorial community house and $100,000 for its erection. Because of the high price of labor and material, the building was not constructed at that time but in 1922 interest in the project was revived and the community house-a memorial to the veterans of the World War-became a reality in 1923. Five years later, in 1928, the house is reported to be filling an increasingly important place in the community and giving recreational leadership in the community at large. The director of the community house was recently instrumental in securing the building with two tennis courts in the city park by the Kiwanis Club and in arranging the community Christmas celebration. A gift of two acres near the memorial building for playground purposes was recently made by the donor of the building. This property is valued at $5,000. Bozeman Benefits by Gift of Building.The first recreation center of Bozeman, Montana. a community of about 6,200 people, has been made possible through the generosity of Mrs. E. Broox Martin, in presenting to the city a building at Beall Park. The dedication exercises were particularly interesting through the presence not only of Mrs. Martin, who made the presentation speech, but of Mrs. W. J. Beall, whose home-the site of the new building--for many years occupied the block of ground now used as a park and playground. Tribute was paid Mr. Ottinger Romney and Miss Eva Pack of the Montana State College and former members of the Salt Lake Recreation Department for their part in making the recreation program possible. Old Farm Becomes Park.-George Detweiler, a resident of Peoria, Illinois, has recently given the city for park purposes the old Detweiler farm of about 200 acres containing the most beautiful hills, vales and brooks in that part of the city. From the hills the ground slopes down across about a half mile of level fields to the banks of the Illinois River. The old Detweiler homestead, a fine type of southern colonial architecture, occupies a splendid location at the end. of a long driveway back into the property. For eighty or eighty-five years it was a center of hospitality and a famous landmark. This beautiful old mansion will be preserved as a museum of pioneer days, remodeled to provide necessary facilities. The Commonwealth Fund Reports.-The expenditure of $1,100,000 last year by the Commonwealth Fund in an effort to improve the physical and mental health of the American children is described in the ninth annual report of the General Director, Barry C. Smith, which has just appeared. The report tells of the health work demonstrations which have been conducted, of the support given child welfare and health work in Austria, of the development of child guidance clinics and of visiting teacher work in public schools, of educational research activities and of the development of rural hospitals. Copies may be secured from the Commonwealth Fund, 1 East 57th Street, New York City. A New Service.-Berkeley, Cal., has just published a leaflet entitled, "Where Will You Spend Your Vacation?" It lists and describes in detail all the camps in that vicinity under the supervision and control of the Recreation Depart ment. Traveling Playgrounds.-Chelsea, Mass., is having made swings on wheels which, together with small teeters and other apparatus, including |