Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Siobhan McKenna, Irish actress, will star in the first play to be presented at the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (MeBAC). Jose Quintero will direct the play, which will open the tent theatre on Soldiers Field Road early in July...
...members of the Metropolitan District Commission yesterday attacked plans for the controversial Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. Commissioner Milton Cook called the newly established theatre advisory group "a way to get rid of people from local organizations," and his colleague David J. Mintz questioned the legality of the lease signed by the MDC and MeBAC...
Rarely have I known the CRIMSON, whose editorial stands I ordinarily admire, to take so short-sighted a view of an important issue as the one demonstrated in the editorial "Theatre on the Charles," attacking the administration by the Cambridge Drama Festival of the proposed Metropolitan Boston Arts Center...
...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 and TV what they are, there's no longer any such thing as the sticks. You can't patronize people anymore...
...Japan. Toyo Keizai, a sort of Japanese Wall Street Journal, runs a haiku assortment every week. Hototogisu (Cuckoo), a haiku magazine founded in 1897, claims a substantial though private monthly circulation of 20,000. Japan's 500,000 practicing poets can win prize money from most of the metropolitan newspapers and from the Emperor himself. They write in all the classic forms, but the simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern of three lines, is the runaway favorite. Harold G. Henderson, author of An Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku...