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...rest of this issue fall short, in varying degrees, of the quality of the four pieces mentioned above. Sandy has another poem, "Vale," of "the morning after" variety. Some good metaphors lose out to bad ones and hazy grammar. "We See No Phoenix," by Jonathan Revere, is confused by inconsistent metaphor, though some bright colors and clear rhymes save it from dullness...
...edge. La Concha is aimed to please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...alphabetically arranged) the Delphic, better known as "the Gas" (on Linden St. opposite the University Squash Courts), the Fly (on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House), the Owl (Holyoke St. diagonally across from the I.A.B.), and the Spee (corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Sts.). Then come the Phoenix S. K. and the Iroquois (in adjoining buildings on Mt. Auburn St. facing Elsie's), the Fox (corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston), and the D.U. (above J. Press). And last, the only Final Club established since the war--the Bat, occupying the floors above Benny Jacobson's Gold Coast...
...Family Reunion (by T. S. Eliot) opened a season at the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater that will consist of works by Nobel prizewinners. Though written 19 years ago, The Family Reunion has, perhaps with reason, never before been professionally staged in the U.S. It is difficult to stage, since both the inwardness of its drama and the trickiness of its dramaturgy are difficult to project. Yet the play is worth producing, however serious its shortcomings. For it more than endeavors; it experiments. And it not only has a certain academic interest where it fails, but where it succeeds...
...become a playgoer until he passed 30, today is the busiest producer on Broadway. He handles the purse strings for 1) the Producers' Theater, a group he formed with Producer Robert Whitehead; 2) the famed Playwrights' Company; 3) ANTA (American National Theater and Academy); and 4) the Phoenix Theater, Manhattan's most distinguished off-Broadway playhouse. This season Stevens expects to have no fewer than 16 Broadway entries...