Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday, August 7: last day Arts and Sciences students may withdraw from Summer School...
...assert that the C.D.F. is forcing the other local drama groups out of business. And you go on to cite the demise of Lee Falk's Boston Summer Theatre, which until three years ago you co-produced with him in New England Mutual Hall. Now the fact is that Mr. Falk, having lost money in recent summers, had already decided to forego a 1959 season and to sell all his theatrical property before the new MeBAC theatre was given the go-ahead...
...yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
Then, Mr. Capp, you failed to mention at all that, although Falk's project has been discontinued, another new group under the aegis of the Boston Summer Playhouse is now offering its first season of shows at the Charles Playhouse in Boston. The Tufts Arena Theatre seems to be getting along as well as ever; and the several local music circuses are reportedly doing unprecedentedly good business...
...following are included in the events scheduled by the Summer School for the week beginning today...