Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Successive Failures. Situated far off the coastal highway, Palomares was never a tourist attraction. Only a single road is paved. Entertainment consists of two bars and a movie theater that shows old films on Thursday nights, Sundays and holidays. Still, Palomares was a singularly prosperous town. As its lead and silver mines, discovered by the Phoenicians, finally petered out over the past 30 years, the miners were given severance pay in land instead of pesetas. Pride of ownership and an abundance of sweet water from deep wells coaxed from the arid land the best tomatoes in all of Almeria province...
...Prime Ministers' conference, he took along a planeload of newsmen. Then reporters got Divorcee Eva Rittinghausen to gush after a date with the P.M., "it was love at first sight." And photographers would not go away when Trudeau and Actress Jennifer Hales tried to steal away to the theater. Annoyed at last, Trudeau made it clear that a public figure-and especially a 49-year-old bachelor-is still a private person. "I do not think it's your damned business what a particular person thinks about me, or how we behave," he snapped to the press. "Perhaps...
...wealth, and last October it put its most prestigious culture under one $13 million roof: the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center.* The big glass and concrete structure on Peachtree Street was hailed as the only one of the nation's arts centers to house res ident companies in repertory theater, opera, ballet and symphony - as well as an art museum, and an art library and school...
Last week, just 100 days after the Memorial Center's dedication, Atlantans were shocked to hear that the ballet, opera and dramatic repertory were folding. Their parent, Atlanta Municipal Theater, had already run up a deficit of $300,000 and could continue no longer at the center. The reason was partly financial mismanagement and partly over-ambition. The Theater had kicked off its season with a superproduction of John Dryden and Henry Purcell's 17th century opera King Arthur, which simultaneously showed off the opera, ballet and dramatic companies. It cost $250,000, but it drew enough...
Apparently that idea has not caught on in Atlanta. As matters now stand, unless Atlanta's citizens come forward with a big, overall subsidy, the opera, ballet and repertory theater will have to operate independently, scrambling in an every-man-for-himself competition for funds. In that case, the ballet and theater face severe difficulties. The opera, under the direction of veteran opera singer Blanche Thebom, may go under altogether...