Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showmanship by promoting itinerant Chautauquas and William Jennings Bryan. In 1922 Cleveland hired him to manage its huge Public Hall, scene of last month's Republican Convention. So notable was his success that in 1928 Atlantic City lured him away with $25,000 per year to run its Auditorium. Five years later rich Manhattan got him for chief of its Convention & Visitors Bureau...
Some 200 women and men, strong of arm and body, who earn their living as physiotherapists, sat down in a Los Angeles auditorium last week for a dance performance which was part entertainment, part instruction. Four strapping girls in short trunks rambled onto the stage, swung legs and arms, rotated feet, hands, heads, clenched fists, raised knees, arched backs, twisted torsos, squatted...
...Portland's Municipal Auditorium NEA's retiring President Agnes Samuelson of Iowa picked up her gavel, banged it unceremoniously, keynoted: "Democracy must preserve education if education is to preserve democracy!" From that moment broad-beamed President Samuelson had to pound her gavel incessantly, finally smashed it, as the NEA party turned into a loud, nervous assault on the Association's two prime whipping boys...
...summer were to be Hans Kindler of Washington, D. C., Erno Rapee of the radio, Frank Black. National Broadcasting Co.'s general musical director. Karl Krueger of Kansas City and that most ubiquitous of summer conductors, Jose Iturbi. Also during the summer in Cleveland's Public Auditorium the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies would be sandwiched in between free concerts by Rudy Vallee, Wayne King. Paul Whiteman. Guy Lombardo and Major Bowes...
Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down...