Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State and city legal counsel at that time advised that the area in question was under the sole control of the Metropolitan District Commision, even though privately owned and actually included on the Cambridge assessors' map. And opposition in a State House hearing effectively put an end to a bill which would take the property out of MDC control...
...city of Cambridge should have the first chance to purchase any land which the Metropolitan Transit Authority offers to sell, Mayor Thomas M.McNamara asserted yesterday...
...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
Eventually the Art Center plans to construct a grand opera hall, seating 3800, which will be capable of supporting the Metropolitan Opera for a two week season...
...Massachusetts is not subsidizing the Art Center beyond providing temporary facilities," Aldrich insisted. "Any permanent structure will have to come from private sources." The Metropolitan District Commission has leased the property to the Art Center for three years at one dollar a year...