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...Aeolian Co. until May 1, 1929, on which date cigarettes and cheap cutlery will oust Art from the premises. Meanwhile, five more seasons of concerts will be heard inside the 43rd Street entrance, and for five years talking machines, radio apparatus and electric pianos will be sold from the 42nd Street side. Then the five-and-ten will raise its scarlet standard, and the tobacco company will begin to profit on its $6,000,000 outlay...
Solemn high mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, formally opened the 42nd Annual Convention of the Knights of Columbus. Bishop William Turner of Buffalo keynoted with a sermon on that popular subject, Atnericanism?aiming veiled thrusts at the K. K. K. The 356 delegates arose from their knees, paraded down Fifth Ave. to the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Schulte Cigar Stores Co., runner-up of the omnipresent, ubiquitous United chain, has invaded the musical field. It has bought Aeolian Hall, Manhattan's most delightful first-rank concert auditorium. With the hall itself goes the entire 17-story skyscraper structure, extending clear across from 42nd to 43rd Street, complete with pipe organ, radio station and numerous offices for concert managers, retired business men who wish to retain dignified New York business offices, and Christian Science practitioners...
...with a New York Symphony concert under the baton of Walter Damrosch, featuring Dame Maggie Teyte as soloist. Since then, practically every artist of . international repute, from Ignace Paderewski to "Jerry" Farrar, has appeared on its platform. The concert-entrance is on 43rd Street, the Aeolian business entrance on 42nd Street. Thus the tainted atmosphere of commercialism was never permitted to invade the sanctum of Art. Now and then, free player-piano and player-organ concerts were given of a forenoon when no orchestra was rehearsing, but these, being free, were not too well attended. The sale of the Hall...
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