Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signing of the two artists is the first action taken by the Cambridge Drama Festival since the Metropolitan District Commission awarded it the right to operate at MeBAC this season. The award was protested by the Group 20 summer theatre of Wellesley, which demanded an equal share in the new theatre...
Cook called for broader representation of local theatre groups on the MeBAC board, but was overruled by the 3-2 majority. For several weeks, the Group 20 Players of Wellesley have criticized MeBAC on the grounds that all three "theatre experts" on its board are officials of the Cambridge Drama Festival, a local drama company...
...questions as puzzling to acquaintances in Whitinsville, Mass. (pop. 8,000), where she was born, and Kingston, R.I., where she died, as they are to Smith fund raisers. The daughter of a Whitinsville doctor, she attended Smith in 1879-80 as a sophomore (she had studied previously at Wellesley), then dropped out. Smith's records show that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school after a year. Shortly afterward, she is known to have taught music in Cape Town, South Africa...
...reply, the Group 20 Players, a Wellesley drama organization which has requested an equal share of the theatre's facilities, charged MeBAC with unfair discrimination. Alan Tepper, the group's lawyer, argued that proposed state aid to the Arts Center would amount to a "full subsidy" to the Cambridge Drama Festival, "which may well put a theatre of our sort of out business...
...Arts Center theatre during the first season is to be given to the CDF, and it has refused to offer equal time (even on an alternate season basis) to the only other non-profit classical drama group in the Boston area--the Group 20 Players of Wellesley...