Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifth Avenue, not on Park, nor on Otto H. Kahn's 57th St. site, but on Broadway in the shabby brick building that has housed it these 44 years, the Metropolitan Opera Company began last week a new season. The scene was familiar: the line from the box office curling halfway round the block; taxis snarling at one another, limousines haughtily shouldering their way through; crowded lobbies and scalpers asking $50 apiece for seats from last-minute bidders; Thomas J. Bull, silk-hatted, correct, taking tickets at the door he has tended for 37 years; General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza...
...present Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, approximately one-third of the audience can see the stage none too well. Last week in Musical America an article by Editor Deems Taylor describing Joseph Urban's design for the new Metropolitan Opera House to be situated on West 57th St., Manhattan, promised that each and every operagoer could see the stage...
...Last week, his 57th birthday, a telegram from 20,000 of his employes moved him profoundly. It conveyed their good wishes...
...cancer studies (TIME, Feb. 14) deter Robert Fulton Cutting. Mr. Cutting is chairman of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co.; Mr. Kahn chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Their directorates met last week. Said Mr. Cutting's directorate: We will build you a new theatre on West 57th street, Manhattan, to hold 5,000 people, to have 32 parterre boxes. Stockholders must pay $145,000 to own a 1/32 interest in the property and to use boxes twice a week. "Agreed," said Mr. Kahn's directorate. The new Metropolitan will be completed...
...borders, designed "layouts." In his spare time he studied. In 1915 Editor Ray Long of the Red Book gave him a manuscript to illustrate. He went to Manhattan, entered the Art Students' League. His fame grew. His prices went up. He drew advertisements, married, rented a studio on West 57th St. with two skylights. For relaxation he played the victrola and practiced on the cornet. In 1923 he gave a series of lectures at the League on magazine illustrating. He has drawn pictures for The Desert Healer by E. M. Hull, Find the Woman by Arthur Somers Roche, The Torrent...