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...Abner company died in Toronto and Sunrise at Campobello sank Jan. 6 in Toledo, with total losses of about $200,000, the lists last week showed only seven shows on tour. The reason was no secret. Subscription-sponsored tours, such as those promoted by the Theatre Guild through 23 cities, have a fighting chance, but big-name actors no longer like to hit the road, and road-show audiences are no longer satisfied unless they see big-name actors. "Producers forget that the U.S. has become a metropolitan country," says Director Morton (Music Man) Da Costa. "With communication...
Behind the bonuses-for-quitting policy was an effort to pare down the Inquirer's bulging head count-more than" 700 editorial and office employees. After an American Newspaper Guild strike last summer (TIME, June 23; July 21) in which job security on the overstaffed Inquirer was a major issue, management and guild agreed that to anyone who resigned or retired in the last half of 1958 the paper would pay a bonus of one week's pay for every year of employment, plus full severance pay (maximum: 31 weeks). The plan worked. In all, 142 employees quit...
...rival newsmen wonder privately if the paper has not spent good money to get rid of good men. But the Inquirer professes pleasure with the results. The resignations, said Stewart Hooker, director of personnel and labor relations, "have made a staff reduction of about the size we told the guild initially we felt we should have...
...This is the ultimate answer to a problem that has plagued dramatists since time immemorial," declared Walter B. Farnham '59, president of the Opera Guild. After seeing the projected image of the Drama Center, James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, added, "We seniors are sick over the fact that we have to graduate and miss this theatre...
Walter B. Farnham '59, president of the Harvard Opera Guild, disagreed, however. "I'm not altogether sure it's too good to have a director at all," he said, "Amateur directors here would not get adequate experience, and, after all, this is one of the main aims of the College's dramatic program...