Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lofty ballroom of the Cleveland Auditorium, Vice President Ed Hall of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America made a speech one day last week. After dwelling upon the factional feuds which had nearly wrecked the most promising of C. I. O.'s newer unions, pot-paunched Brother Hall observed: "I say that this organization must be like a cat with nine lives. . . . Unless you can put men in office and quit . . . sniveling, snitching and jibing at those individuals, you will never have unity, you will never have a constructive, democratic, militant organization...
Ginger Rogers' precocity was not confined to her stage career. At eleven, she played a piano solo of MacDowell's To a Wild Rose in a Fort Worth auditorium. At 17, she married a vaudeville hoofer named Edward (Jack) Culpepper. Ginger left Culpepper three months later, divorced him, married Hollywood Actor Lew Ayres in 1935, separated from him the same year. At present unattached, she lives with her mother in the highest house on Beverly Crest, in Beverly Hills...
...Intent on remembering the groove, Bowler McGeorge had not been watching the score. Like most bowlers, he was content to let his string of strikes run itself out before finding out where he stood. But watchful eyes among the 300 afternoon spectators in Cleveland's vast Lake Side Auditorium spotted what was going on, and the murmur and commotion aroused McGeorge to what he had worked up to. He had eleven strikes. One more meant a perfect game. In all the 39 years of the A.B.C. competition, only five bowlers had rolled...
Charles A. Prosser, Director of the William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute of Minneapolis, Minnesota will deliver the fifteenth annual Inglis Lecture on April 14 in the Littauer Center auditorium, taking "Secondary Education and Life" as his subject, it was announced yesterday...
Reinhold A. Faust, 74, of No. 2517 North Richmond Street, Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present...