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Charles Webster Hawthorne was 27 years old, had put in a few years as an art teacher, when he settled in Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted...
...Provincetown, Mass., where some 50 professional artists and hundreds of students regularly spend their summers, two juries, from the same association, one conservative and one modernist, selected no pieces from the work of members. But last week 35 artists decided that was not enough, planned to hold open house all summer, turned their homes into galleries for summer visitors and possible buyers...
However, heterogeneous repertory theatres in popular resorts like Cape May, N. J., Provincetown, Dennis and Stockbridge, Mass., Newport, R. I., Stony Creek, Conn. and Skowhegan, Me. had shown theatre folk the practicality of pursuing their audiences into rural retreats. Faced with the alternative of roasting their heels on Broadway's hot pavements for three months every year, actors jumped at the chance of performing in anything from tents to churches, for anything from room & board to the revenues which could sometimes be derived from stage-struck vacationists eager to pay for a chance...
...theatres, experimental theatres, repertory theatres are like frail children. They get the most devoted care, but seldom get any exercise, grow any muscle, gain any weight. In the quarter-century before 1937, Manhattan saw only four such theatres survive adolescence: the Theatre Guild, the Provincetown Hay-house, the Civic Repertory Theatre (thanks to Director Eva Le Gallienne), the Group Theatre (thanks chiefly to Playwright Clifford Odets...
History. Josef Berger, of Provincetown, Mass, and the Federal Writers' Project, author of Cape Cod Pilot-to collect in a book the tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports...