Word: provincetown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is something incongruous about the meter-lined streets where nobody's walking, the Howard Johnson's where you don't have to wait for a table. But Hyannis is a quick stop, having neither beauty nor excitement to recommended it now, and you speed along to Provincetown...
...Provincetown that Eugene O'Neill made popular does not exist in winter. There is no carnival atmosphere, no theatre, no artists of dubious character from Greenwich Village...
...most of the best facilities?golf courses, tennis courts, docks, private beaches and clubhouses. (Oyster Harbors' members include Paul Mellon and A. Felix du Pont Jr.) This actually causes little concern to the theatrical people and artists who summer at the unsocial lower Cape towns of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown, or to affluent visitors who summer at fashionable Chatham, which has one of the best harbors for small-boat sailing and one of the finest golf courses on the Eastern seaboard...
David F. Leone, a first year graduate student in English, died Wednesday night in Provincetown...
...because of his carrot mane and his penchant for clashing red clothes, Grooms is as gently ingenuous as his art. After high school in Nashville (where he was voted "Most Witty"), he successively studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the New School, and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown. Fascinated with things theatrical, he also became head usher at the old Roxy in New York. "Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith...