Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian Opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
Last week, to hear Newton's full-dress "Report on Russia," a preponderantly female audience of 3,500 Georgians filed into Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium. On the sidewalk, two pickets, seedy representatives of "white supremacy," carried a crudely lettered banner denouncing Communism...
Meeting in Littauer Auditorium, over 100 members turned out in spite of the rain. The meeting voted to postpone of election of regular permanent officers until October when the chapter constitution will be adopted...
...directors ever faced a tougher job. The roof of the great theater where the Weimar Republic was born was crumpled up in the auditorium. With Russian help he managed to get the damage repaired. He hired actors to start producing Nathan der Weise, As You Like It, Fidelio, Rigoletto, Tales of Hoffmann, and Illegal Ones, a play about the German underground...
Delegates to the annual American Medical Association convention in San Francisco last week (see MEDICINE) saw a remarkable appeal to citizens. On a billboard near the Civic Auditorium was the portrait of a vaguely sinister man whose face was hidden by a tilted derby. A legend read: "Don't surrender your city to the faceless man. Vote no on recall...