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...should be truly national, and that Broadway would improve if its productions were to be assembled somewhere else than on Manhattan Island. This, by Scott's description, is admittedly like ''trying to drive a camel through the eye of a needle, the eye being the Holland Tunnel." But "the theater is strangling itself in the Broadway struggle," he says, "Most plays are produced on a limited-partner basis. The same money is used over and over again." And this financial centralization creates "indirect censorship"-that is, relatively few people decide what plays will be done. Different ideas...
...Broadway productions are cast, built and rehearsed in New York before a brief trial fling on the road, the Theater of Michigan will cast all of its plays, build its sets, rehearse, and hold tryouts in Detroit, then bring the wrapped package to the west end of the Holland Tunnel and shove it through. "Imagine a prosperous Broadway,"* Scott expands, "supported some day by the Theater of Michigan, the Theater of Kentucky, the Theater of Kansas, and so on. Then we'll have the Theater of the U.S.A...
...idea: Why not go underground? A stucco house stood empty only 20 ft. from the wire. Soon shovels were biting through the cellar wall and into the sandy soil. The digging was not difficult, but only one man at a time could work at the head of the narrow tunnel; employing the classic technique of captured British soldiers who bored out of German prison camps in World War II, the others helped hand back the loose dirt, or buttressed the excavation with wooden supports. The tunnelers dug only in the daytime, so that traffic noises would drown out the sounds...
...last, after two weeks, the tunnel had reached a clump of bushes 90 ft. away in West Berlin's French sector. In ones and twos, the families who were in on the plan slipped into the house and gathered in the tiny cellar. There were 28 people, including three children and one half-paralyzed woman of 71. Each was allowed to carry one parcel; a pet dog had to be left behind for fear it would bark and give the plan away. When everything was ready, one man crawled through to see if the coast was clear...
...United Press International reporter, Rolf Steinberg, soon had the straight story from the refugees themselves, and his editors put it on the wire. The Berlin city government and the local press angrily denounced "this tragic indiscretion,'' which, they argued, made it impossible for others to use the tunnel. But the U.P.I, pointed out that Communist Vopos swarmed in and occupied the stucco house three hours before their story of "the tunnel was distributed...