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There is no chance in hell that Congress will support the arts," Joseph Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, said Saturday at the final panel of the Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival...
Many Congressmen, Papp explained, are "pre-historic people who don't unstained the arts and fear them." Instead of making general pleas for federal aid, he asked artists to build up an audience first for their projects. Then, he said, public pressure will force local politicians to help finance them...
...Papp pointed to his Central Park Shakespeare Festival, which charges no as an example of how "artististally sound" projects can gain community support. The Festival began in 1955 with $850 raised privately. This year New York City will give...
Tomorrow evening's session will hear a paper by Daniel Robbins, assistant curator of the Guggenheim Museum, on what type of art and artists the government should assist. Machinery for government aid to the arts will be discussed by the Saturday aftersoon panel, which includes Joseph Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival...
...representations of all professions, generally grossly inaccurate, flood our media. Our T.V. cowboys bear no more resemblance to real post-Civil War cowboys than Perry Mason and Nicholas Cain bear to real lawyers, or Peter Gunn to a real private detective. Piel's unkind, thinly disguised cut at Frank Papp's Bell Telephone science series completely ignores first the unusual accuracy and clear presentation of the programs, and second the fact that they were prepared primarily for young children...