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Dead Birds. Even so, the list of dead pigeons already includes such famous summer theaters as the Lakewood at Skowhegan, Me. (the oldest in the East, having run continuously for 41 years); the Spa at Saratoga Springs; the South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass.; the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Mass.; The Lost Colony pageant at Roanoke Island, N.C. (which played to almost 500,000 people in five years) ; the annual Play Festival at Central City, Colo...
...would prefer, however, to reach success via the stage. Her experience behind the footlights started in 1937 when she played summer stock in Skowhegan, Maine; this was her first and only visit to New England, and she enjoyed it very much. Since then she has toured with "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and filled in the rest of her time with two "quick flops" on Broadway, which, as she very justly observes, "weren't my fault, of course...
Last week skaters whirred around some 3,000 U. S. rinks, from Skowhegan to San Diego, from Atlanta to Seattle. The skaters in Detroit's Arena Gardens, largest of the city's four roller rinks, were especially gay. For they were celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arena Gardens Roller Skating Club (membership 5,000) and honoring portly, fiftyish Fred Martin, the man mainly responsible for all this fun on wheels...
...this summer, a few plays written by recognized authors and backed by established producers may outlive the corn crops. Noteworthy rural premieres include Ward Green's Honey at Dennis; Hollywood Be Thy Name (by Myron Fagan, at Cape May); Let's Never Change (by Owen Davis, at Skowhegan); Tomorrow's Sunday (by Philo Higley, at Cohasset); Soubrette (by Jacques Deval, at Ogunquit); Made in Heaven (by Herbert Crocker, at Somerset, Pa.) ; Music at Evening (by Robert Nathan, at White Plains); Dame Nature (by André Birabeau, adapted by Patricia Collinge, at Westport...
Finances. About 20 summer theatres, among them notably those at Westport, Skowhegan, Ogunquit, Dennis, Schenectady and Stockbridge turn in a regular profit. Most of the rest survive on subsidies from rich patrons, tuition fees from amateurs (who pay up to $600 apiece), or both. Summer theatres employed about 500 actors a week in 1934, 800 last year, expect to employ about 1,500 this season. Top salary for stars is about $750 a week, but most willingly take much less. Less celebrated Equity members average $40 a week. Authors whose plays are performed in summer theatres get minute fees, because...