Word: mintz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Mintz noted that the bill leading to the planning of an art center provided for $5 million to be spent on "recreation," and he raised the question, "Is an art center recreation?" He also pointed out that the lease, which would pre-empt the long-established Met Harness Track, does not delineate the exact site of the proposed theatre, leaving a possible means to open further discussion of MeBAC...
...voted down efforts by Commissioners Milton Cook and David Mintz to amend or postpone approval of the measure. Mintz questioned whether state support of the project was a proper use of public funds and urged a reexamination on this score...
...take a good deal of the responsibility for a comparative failure. In trying to show the demented quality of the goings-on in a Russian bank near the turn of the century, Harwood subjects his actors to a break-neck pace that is much more frantic than funny. Martin Mintz, as a clerk, and John Fenn, as the bank manager, do get some laughs, but they constantly give the impression of trying too hard, with too little material. Yet the defects of the curtain-raiser matter very little, since the over-all quality of the Sartre play is high enough...
...best acting of the evening. In the difficult part of a philosophical waiter who steps out of character to acts as commentator, Arthur Lewis gives a polished and confident performance. He is not at all stricken with the curse of uncertainty common in many amateur actors. Martin Mintz, who portrays a cab driver, shows a similar surety, and also posses a seemingly instinctive sense of comedy and timing. A a somewhat irrational restaurant customer, Peter Hugen is less effective because he is not quite in control of either his voice or his gestures. The other members of the cast, especially...