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Seeger sauntered in again last Saturday to play at a benefit for the War Tax Resistance at the Aquarius Theater. The auditorium was packed, and most people seemed to know the words to nearly all the songs Seeger sang. "I'd say 80 per cent of the people here had heard me before" he said after the concert...
Though the management firmly denies it, it seems possible that after the Christmas rush, there may be major changes at the hall, perhaps even a subdivision of the '30s Art Deco auditorium into smaller theaters. Barring that, there might have to be a revision in programs. "The kind of family-oriented films we are dedicated to playing are becoming more difficult to find," explains the Music Hall's President Jack Gould. To a generation raised on relatively sophisticated TV variety shows, the dance routines seem simply cornball. Admitted a dancer last week: "Some of the things we have...
...machines or stare at the leotard-clad figure of Lizalotta Valesca, 70. In 1930 she was Miss Finland; today she is perhaps the world's best-preserved great-grandmother and a persuasive saleswoman for a line of health and beauty aids. Visitors could also slip into an adjoining auditorium and hear lectures on such subjects as biofeedback (TIME, Oct. 16) and the prevention of illness and achievement of a satisfactory sex life through proper eating...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATRE is now the only repertory company in Boston. They founded themselves in 1970, and spent their first summer roughing it in a school auditorium in Hyannis. Plagued with money troubles, they were dormant until last summer, when they began performing in the basement of the Boston Center for the Arts, a cavernous old building south of the Combat Zone. Over the summer they ran on donations but were ripped off by so many people who didn't donate anything at all that they now have mandatory "contributions." If you still don't want to pay, though...
...work. The most glaring example is the entrance corridor. Almost vacant except for a few dying trees and some sofas on either side of the information booth, one is left with the distinct feeling that the entrance space was not designed but simply left over after the auditorium, studio, and library had been designed Toshiro Katayama's hangings, although bright, have become a hackneyed attempt at enlivening a dead space where perhaps student projects would be better exhibited...