Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miles City Professor Adam and his orchestra were greeted not merely with politeness, but with pleasure. People here were in sympathy with the movement. The auditorium of the high school (by the way, did you know that our school buildings are listed among the best in the country?) was comfortably filled. Professor Adam's talk, explaining the organization and finances of the orchestra, was loudly applauded. Pledges to purchase tickets for the next concerts were circulated. Signing was brisk...
...announced that Composer Taylor had been commissioned to create another opera, for the opening, two years hence, of the Metropolitan's new auditorium. He said: "So far as opera is concerned I feel I have just about graduated from grammar school...
...Hempstead, L. I., Thomas O'Donnell, 18, high school senior, wrote a letter to his mother explaining he felt he was being a financial hindrance to her and his sister; wrote appointments of schoolmates as pallbearers; marched to the stage of the school auditorium, took out a revolver similar to one he had brandished lately in the school play, (Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers) and shot himself...
...Investigations reveal that managers of motion pictures have no scientific way of determining whether or not the general illumination of the auditorium is what it should be and, in fact, this is governed by the judgment of the management which may take into consideration certain factors and entirely disregard others of equal or greater importance...
...Practical tests and measurements are reported which demonstrate the feasibility of sufficient general illumination of the auditorium during the showing of the film to permit reading of program and this without detracting from definition or causing loss of quality in the picture showing on the screen...