Word: levene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign attempt to take over Genvrain and represent a major move toward consolidating France's 3,000 scattered dairy firms. Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing indicates as much in a meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would be mate No. 2 for Perrier. It has already wooed and almost won Sapiem, France's second largest dairy firm...
Still, the show had a different flavor than it had when I saw it last spring. At that time, the original Proposition was running out of gas. The show had started with a small group of Harvard people, but the founder and original director, Jerome Leven, had left to form The Light Company, which had turned out to be as much of a flop as the Proposition has been a success. The cast was tired, and spent a lot of time anguishing over what was wrong. But the show kept going, and the laugh count, despite the problems, kept building...
...course, the backers still hold the building on Mass. Ave. and plan to turn it into some sort of money-making enterprise yet. As Leven had hoped, rock concerts will soon be scheduled. Lecturers and entertainers, will be slotted. The Light Company Building may someday become the cultural complex that Leven had dreamed of--but it will do so without his show and without him. Next weekend, one of the backers will probably visit New York in search of a small, off-Broadway production that can serve as the core of a new effort...
...Jeremy Leven won't be guiding it. That's unfortunate. The director had hoped that eventually The Light Company would go beyond being a mere entertainment package. He wanted local people to feel free to submit their own ideas for sketches. He had already extended an invitation to the Writers and Artists Registry for unsolicited material--comedy routines, paintings, photos, and poetry. He claimed to have "a tremendous amount of respect for the area. I want people to come and, if they don't like what they see, I hope they can tell us about it." And, if the show...
Late last Saturday night, Jeremy Leven began to lock up The Light Company Theatre. He did not know that it was the last time he would be going through the nightly ritual. "Say, could you add one more thing," he asked. "I'd appreciate it if you'd mention that I hope people don't wait to see what the next performance might bring." He smiled again. "After all, there might...