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...Wellesley Group 20 Players are "shocked and hurt" at the terms offered them by the Metropolitan Boston Art Commission for use of its new arts center, a spokesman for the Wellesley organization said last night...
...Wellesley summer theatre organization has protested against MEBAC's original plan to allow only the Cambridge Drama Festival to use the new site, which the Metropolitan District Commission plans to lease to MEBAC...
MEBAC, which has already agreed to give the CDF full use of the theatre during the 1959 summer season, earlier suggested that the Wellesley group share the site in 1960, according to the Group 20 spokesman. He called this plan "no compromise, but an insult." Members of MEBAC "implied incorrectly that Group 20 is not in the same league with the Cambridge Drama Festival, professionally speaking," the spokesman continued...
Fund-raising in Boston and hiring of artists in New York, as well as summer patronage are "three vital ways" in which the Wellesley organization will have to compete with "state-endorsed competition," their statement said...
MEBAC and the MDC will meet this afternoon to consider the objections raised by the Wellesley organization...