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...audience was a very different matter. The 1,400 young Britons (at about four shillings a head) in London's Adelphi Theater last week were about the age of U.S. jitterbugs, but they wore starched white collars, sat quietly and attentively, trying to understand. Nobody romped in the aisles, though a few bold souls gently stomped their feet. The two-and-a-half-hour jam session was broken by a 15-minute intermission, so that the audience could have...
Last winter he got leave, scurried to London to round up some musical cronies, rented a hall in suburban Wembley. He packed the hall for three concerts. In the concerts at the larger Adelphi Theater he has had to turn away crowds. Last week's show at the Adelphi sold better than the last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor...
...their lives in dignity, safety, and comradeship." The astonished natives had never heard of a "country which looked after its 'children' so well," and Eslanda told them "every scrap" she knew about it. "Africans are people," she concluded, as Imperial Airways whisked her home to old Adelphi, London's theater section...
...Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel sporting men in loud checked waistcoats kept their confidence up by the bootstraps as they waited last week for the running of the Grand National Steeplechase. In progress was one of the greatest bookies' panics in years; for if the ''favorite," Blue Shirt, should win, the bookies stood to lose ?1,000,000. Actually, few racing men seriously believed Blue Shirt would win, but there was always an off chance that the public might for once be right. Bookies, like frightened stockbrokers, forced odds down to 8-to-1 to save their...
While first-night crowds jostled London bobbies outside the Adelphi Theatre, behind the curtain the milling cast of Trans-atlantic Rhythm threatened a walk-out unless Producer James Paul ("Jimmy") Donahue Jr., 23-year-old 5-&-10? heir, paid their back salaries. Though she claimed she was owed $7,250 herself, up sprang Mexican Actress Lupe Velez, crooned Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to the fretful chorines, persuaded them to put on the $110,000 revue without pay. The show...