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Sheldon Cohen, the owner of the Out-of-Town Ticket Agency, organized the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association last summer, as a response to the rash of trashing and looting that swept through the Square. His group asked the Cambridge City Council to employ more police in the Square, and to try to eliminate street people...
ABSENCE of money may be killing the theater, but paradoxically its presence is just as lethal. Dependence on sheerly popular appeal trumped up in out-of-town tryouts destroys more surely than boredom or even mediocrity. Theater disappears in the rush for backers to retrieve their investments. Broadway may now have found the perfect subject matter in its latest major musical, The Rothschilds, but perhaps it will only discover just how dull theater-material lucre can be. The real problem is money-not its absence, but its suffocating presence, its influence in cheapening quality, and ability to beget itself...
...years with apparently messianic indifference to commercial pressure. Their production of Alice in Wonderland, an hour and a half wonder but the result of fourteen months of work, deserved its success in Cambridge and now runs off Broadway. Their five week stay at the Loeb amounted to an out-of-town tryout, but consisted of giving-giving instruction, giving experience, rather than taking. There were of course many specific problems with each of these undertakings, but the Loeb itself became an activated unit generating excitement in a rather uninspiring summer...
Sheldon Cohen, owner of the Out-of-Town News Agency in the Square, said that his insurance had been cancelled as a result of repeated riot damage, and demanded more police protection...
Alexander Zavelle has been named the merchants' spokesman, and he is a concerned and thoughtful liberal. He says, "I think we can clean up the Square without arresting people or beating them up." Zavelle and Sheldon Cohen, owner of the Out-of-Town News Agency, will work with City Councillor Barbara Ackerman to try to arrange laiason between the business community and the street community. They have plans for a Halfway House, where kids who can no longer panhandle or sleep in the Square could go and learn a trade, or partake in some other rehabilitative acivity. Cohen believes that...