Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auditorium of the Department of the Interior Building, President Coolidge saw Tell It to the Marines, a cinema...
Thirteen-year old Robbye Cook, Pensacola, Fla., songstress, secured an audition last week, the first for one so young, before Impresario Gatti-Casazza and Chairman-Director Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, in Manhattan. In the wings of the huge auditorium, empty save for these gentlemen, her aunt and newsgatherers, she doffed her plaid coat; on the stage sang Danny Boy and two modern numbers. Signor Gatti-Casazza delegated Mr. Kahn to report; the latter told her to rest for a while, study, come back after a year or two to sing for him again...
...unison by the great string quartets of the U. S. - Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into the rare acoustic treasuries of the huge auditorium later sounded the Mozart D Major, Saint-Saens's Le Deluge, Debussy's G Minor, Veracini's Concerto Grosso Bel. No medieval potentate had ever summoned forth such jeweled volumes of song in palace or cathedral. Next day the temple of music was again a trading mart...
...conductors, turn toward the U.S. for a living. They come, Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, Poles, with their Italian, German, French, Polish art. It has always been welcome. Yet to many Americans, a native pride has long cried out for musical interpretation of America by Americans. Last week, at the Chicago Auditorium, these people rejoiced. They heard a native two-act opera, sung in English, composed by an American, Charles Wakefield Cadman, written by an American, Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, conducted by an American, Henry G. Weber, staged by an American, Charles Moor, sung, in the tenor role, by an American, Charles Hackett...
...theatre and a magnificently appointed stage, dressing rooms, rehearsal halls, property room, dye room, carpentry shop and all the rest; while there are classrooms and libraries and study rooms where the many courses on stagecraft and writing are conducted. The elaborate lighting switches, the large stage under the main auditorium where experimental work may be conducted on a large scale, the main stage with a loft of 75 feet and a depth of 80 feet, and the signal system for calling the actors and directing the production are among the many conveniences which the new Yale theatre affords. While Harvard...