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Proceed wifh Caution. Once celebrated as a playwrights' laboratory (the Provincetown, Mass. Players launched Eugene O'Neill), today's summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
They came back to Cambridge when I was at Provincetown teaching a lovely blonde the difference between existentialism and activationism. It was cool there...
...then later in September they played a full game in the Stadium. About that time, I was getting ready to kiss off the Provincetown blonde. There was no capacity crowd watching, them that particular day. Overhead, grey clouds turned black near the end of the first period. I wish I could tell you more about how they kept on playing for three more periods when electric lights were going out in Boston. But then I'd have to tell you how Bill Henry, a guy who kept statistics at last year's Yale game, showed the stuff that made...
...Provincetown blonde wanted to show me the Village, and I showed her Palmer Stadium. She wanted to know why Harvard never carried the ball. It was too much to explain to her. She never did understand that Art Hyde, despite getting a rough going over, was buzzing the Princetons like a fighter plane after a flock of heavies. She couldn't comprehend either that it was possible to make every mistake in the game, and still remain a team...
Semper Paratus. In Provincetown, Mass., police took a second look at George Ash Gaines, arrested him, extracted sun glasses, vitamin pills, stage money, scissors, surgical throat lights and 212 other odds & ends from the two suits he was wearing...