Word: cdf
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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MeBAC has awarded the first season in the new theatre to the CDF, and Group 20 argues that this move represents favoritism which threatens to drive other theatre groups out of business...
Sheer lack of sophistication is evidenced by the argument that the CDF-run MeBAC would represent "unfair competition" to independent drama groups, apparently on the theory that all the arts are in constant cutthroat competition and that a customer for one theatre is a customer lost to another. We are sure the CRIMSON does not seriously think that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums subtract their visitors from the sum-total of gallery-goers, or that someone who buys a ticket for the Budapest String Quartet will not patronize the Boston Opera Group...
...houses across the Yard from us, the Brattle Theatre made more money than at any other period in its existence (we celebrate our sixth anniversary on February 1). A lot of people who had never heard of the Brattle Theatre as an art movie theatre came to Cambridge to CDF performances and then returned to Cambridge to visit the Brattle. Excitement over the arts stimulates furthe interest; it is narrow-minded to suppose otherwise...
MeBAC contends that the CDF is "financially responsible." This may be, but its '56 season resulted in a considerable financial loss, while Group 20 has been operating in the black for the past two years...
...from damaging other local theatres, will stimulate all drama trade in the area. But the prestige of state support, which MeBAC would give to the Cambridge Drama Festival, would surely hamper the fund-raising and actor-recruiting programs so vital to organizations like Group 20 in competition with the CDF. And financial records show that competition between two repertory theatres in the Boston area means a loss for both...