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Group 20 representatives contended that its artistic standing is just as high as that of the CDF and that financially it has begun to make a profit while the CDF suffered a major loss in its last season. The MeBAC board, three of whose nine members are officials of the CDF, is "stacked" against Group 20, Tepper said...
While this idea seems completely laudable, its execution is open to question. For it happens that the plan's originators were officials of the Cambridge Drama Festival, a non-profit repertory theatre of the sort for which the Arts Center theatre is intended. The CDF is certainly to be thanked for this initiative, and it is understandable, though perhaps unwise, that three of the nine MeBAC members are CDF representatives. MeBAC has now ruled, however, that exclusive use of the Arts Center theatre during the first season is to be given to the CDF, and it has refused to offer...
MeBAC argues that the CDF is the only local organization equipped to carry on a theatrical season of high artistic quality. But the fact is that the CDF has not produced a play since the summer of 1956, when it staged three very fine productions in Sanders Theatre. Mean-while Group 20 has been running for the past six summers with equally high marks from the critics...
MEBAC, which has already agreed to give the CDF full use of the theatre during the 1959 summer season, earlier suggested that the Wellesley group share the site in 1960, according to the Group 20 spokesman. He called this plan "no compromise, but an insult." Members of MEBAC "implied incorrectly that Group 20 is not in the same league with the Cambridge Drama Festival, professionally speaking," the spokesman continued...
...Players stressed that the group wants "equal time to use the Soldiers Field site, which is much better than Sanders Theatre or the Wellesley College Amphitheatre." The organization hopes to lease the arts center for the 1960 season and thereafter to share the theatre equally with the CDF...