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- '- f- jf ' -4 EOTe-n Edna Archer Crawford, Who is Appearing in "The Importance of Coming and Going." New York, April 12. Is it TOO EASY TO BE BORN? Are too many babies that weren't wanted brought into the world? Shouldn't mothers tell their daugh ters more about the coming of new lives before the little lives are actual ly on the way? SUCH is the "biggest" problem which the "littlest" theater has just flashed before the eyes of New York. This "smallest theater in the world" is the new Bramhall Play house. It is' the latest of the famous "little theaters" for which a fad is fast sweeping the country. J Over on the East-side, you find a little gray house tucked in between' tall buildings. Inside you find an au ditorium seating barely 200 persons. The walls are tinted silver; the ceil ings are dull gold. It was arected in secrecy by Butler Dav.enport, a devo tee of the drama, and the world knew nothing of the playhouse unil it op- '1 fctafliMtfircttfrWifr f.i irflifriktefl