This Day in History (1948) DRAMARAMCO

From the Dec. 8, 1948 edition of the Sun and Flare

In order to give more emphasis to production and general entertainment activities, DRAMARAMCO, re-organized to eliminate general business meetings and that requirement for majority rule of active membership on important items.

A Production Committee of seven members was elected to carry out the business and production management of the organization.

Plans for the 1949 season as discussed at the meeting of Production Committee on Saturday, December 4, include full-length plays, some experimental acting work for advanced actors, radio and audience participation shows, a minstrel show, variety shows, one-act playwriting contest with production of prize-winning plays.

The Production Committee welcomes written ideas from anyone interested in staging or seeing a particular type of entertainment or endeavor in connection with any of the arts, but particularly in connection with the theater.

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2013 — Metallica performs in Antarctica, becoming the first band to perform on all seven continents

2010 — With the launch of dragon, Space X becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spaceship

1991 — The leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine agree to dissolve the Soviet Union, establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States

1980 — John Lennon is shot and killed outside his apartment building in New York

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1955 — The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe

1922 — Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army

1660 — A woman appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona, in a production of Shakespeare's "Othello"