It was 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. Montrealers, like their counterparts in other countries, were inundated with financial burdens. Dance lessons, music lessons, drama lessons were considered in many quarters as "frills." This pervasive mood did not daunt two young women, Dorothy Davis and Violet Walters, from initiating their mission. Difficult times, they believed, were all the more reason to inspire children through the love of the arts, in this case drama and theatre. Muriel Gold tells teh story of these two dynamic women through innumerable anecdotes, often hilarious, sometimes moving, but always a compelling and fascinating read. A former student and teacher at teh School, she recreates the magic of past Children's Theatre productions, cities thh monologues, the poems, the voice exercises vividly recalled by the children they nurtured over a period of close to to 60 years.