Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome. There was the wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...
...summer, even movies were not profitable. So last year, Haliday, in conjunction with Michael Wager, Miles Morgan '50, and Hunt, decided to revive the Brattle. Their decision was based on nostalgia rather than on any practical business sense, "We thought it would be fun" Haliday recalls. "Since we'd lose money on movies anyway, we figured we might as well lose it on plays...
...previous regular, year-round productions. This was the community response. Whereas the regular Theater group had depended largely on the Harvard community for its audience, the Festival depended on the entire Boston area. The pro- ducers even placed one ad in the New York Times because, as Hunt explains, "Many people around here don't read the Boston papers." The response was overwhelming, proving decisively that "people don't necessarily want to see Desert Song in the summer," he feels...
...this realization which led to the fundamental change in Cambridge professional drama over the past year. Largely through the efforts of Hunt, a Boston architect, the group reorganized on the principle of community responsibility. It decided that many people did in fact want to see classical plays. Moreover, it decided that people wanted to see these productions not just for one summer, but every summer...
...Hunt and the other directors of the Festival believe they can both please.6Members of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Drama Festival, Ince. From left to right, back row: Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English, and Eliot L. Richardson '41, a Boston attorney; middle row: Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perry T. Rathbone '33, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, and William Morris Hunt '36; front row: Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, and Mildred M. Jaffe...