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This article presents information on a Jewish poetry-folk songs program titled "An Evening of Yid- dish Poetry and Folk Music" held in the Central Park, New York. One's feeling in the program was that one doesn't have to be Jewish to enjoy it. The foibles and folk wisdom of a Sholom Aleichem, translate with ease to all conditions and climes. The material partakes of an irreducible human capacity for self-jesting, basic pride and rapport among one's fellows that goes beyond national or ethnic barriers.

This article focuses on lack of funds in Permanent Theatre, a theatre of United States that performs plays of William Shakespeare, a dramatist. The author describes the theater in the Central Park in New York which is built with combination of private and public money. The author says that this theatre has a capacity of 2,300 spectators within a reasonable distance of the stage. He provides information that permanent theatre was opened in the year 1962 and the play "The Merchant of Venice," by Shakespeare was staged. Then it was followed by the play "The Tempest."

The article reports on a three-day design-in event that was held in New York's Central Park in which politicians and designers discussed crucial urban problems. The sponsors of the event include the city's Department of Parks and the New York chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Highlights of the event include an exhibition of posters dealing with urban problems.