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...THAT we are no longer a commercial success, Cambridge has begun to take us into its heart." Jeremy Leven, producer-director of The Light Company, managed a smile as he reviewed the political entertainment's first few tumultuous weeks last Saturday night. Leven--anything but the romantic-type artist, delighted to cough his life away in a cold-water flat-knew he still had a fight on his hands if he wished to save his current project. He knew that while financial failure might bring popular acclaim in this looking-glass city, it just doesn't pay the rent...
...Light Company -- billed as "professional theatre of political controversy and contemporary humor" --would have completed the sixth week of its run tonight. For a month it had been living a hand-to-mouth existence. The backers having with-drawn further financing, Leven had hoped to keep The Light Company alive with his own funds and what-ever money came across the box-office window. Advertising had to be cancelled, and, consequently, audiences had been small. At the same time, the cast and director worked on an entirely new show in order to redeem themselves to the critics, who, along with...
...Judge Beer at least, the argument made eminent sense. He affirmed the judges' right to sue and also gave them everything that they had asked for. The plaintiffs won a writ of mandamus that will compel the county to provide for leven more probation officers, eight more clerks, and one judicial assistant at a combined cost in salaries of at least $193,000 a year. The order may become a major precedent. For judges elsewhere may decide that the way to get more staff is to challenge from the other side of the bench...
...Leven, a sixth-generation member of a family prominent in Paris business, negotiated patiently for eight years to acquire Vichy. A controlling 43.8% interest in Vichy is held by a beer firm called Brasseries et Glacières de 1'Indochine (BGI). Perrier in turn owns 33% of BGI. The swap that Leven finally arranged was to give BGI its 33% and in return take the controlling interest in Vichy. Perrier has acquired another 10% of Vichy shares from other stockholders. Perrier will not only bottle the water from the twelve mineral springs in the town of Vichy...
Lately Perrier has also been branching out from mineral waters, last year sold 150 million bottles of soft drinks, including Pepsi-Cola. Four years ago, Leven saw an opportunity in the chaos of small-scale French dairy farming and set up a dairy-holding concern that is now the second biggest in France, with sales of $180 million annually...