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...STAGE The Rise of Rep Repertory theater, never much of an institution in the U.S., has grown in recent years in every region of the country, and the movement is overdue. Rep companies are the tap source and five-foot shelf of theater in other nations; they give actors unmatchable experience, they try new forms, and they keep the so-called classics dusted...
...drama in a meaningful form. Similarly, when the art of theater is to be advanced, only a company that is not hooped to commerce can try something new and almost certainly unpopular without fear of financial ruin. By and large, the American theater ignored the obvious need of rep groups until it could ignore them no longer...
...negative sort of way. Broadway has got itself into such an economic quagmire that only its most negotiable shows last very long. Hence acting jobs are few and dispiriting, and actors with big names as well as small ones are more than willing to sign on with rep companies, in most cases abandoning New York. They want to act-in three or four different plays a week sometimes-and they want to know what they are going to be doing a month from now. They don't mind the lower pay; at least it is steady. One good reason...
...system of proportional representation (PR) used in Cambridge city elections will almost certainly be challenged in a referendum this November, State Rep. Levin H. Campbell '48 (R-Cambridge) said yesterday...
Campbell, who favors PR, introduced a motion to kill the bill. He attributed its defeat to the "unfortunate decision of the Democratic leadership, for various political reasons, to make the bill a party issue." Rep. John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), who supported the bill, said he has opposed PR since he was elected to the City Council in 1932. He called it a system of "unproper representation...