Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicized this same situation a few years ago. Will you please corroborate these facts for us. Is there not a statute of long standing in the city of Washington specifying that Negroes cannot hire the use of public halls designated for white people? Does not the D.A.R. lease the auditorium of Constitution Hall ... to a management agency which has complete authority in matters of renting the use of this auditorium...
Step Saver. In Gimbel Brothers' Philadelphia store shoppers will soon shop by television. Within a week, televised shows of merchandise from various departments will be run in the store's auditorium (seating capacity 500), and in 22 special "tele-sites" throughout the store. Thus shoppers, relaxing in easy chairs, can select merchandise, buy it when the show ends...
...Salzburg Festival was on again-under the wary eye of the American Military Government. White-helmet-ed MPs directed generals' limousines through cobbled streets. Inside the Festspielhaus some 50 hand-picked Austrians in dowdy evening clothes, were carefully segregated from U.S. soldiers who filled two-thirds of the auditorium. The concert began with s balcony speech by General Mark Clark. Then the Mozarteum Orchestra, including 27 musicians ousted by the Nazis, played Mozart, Lehar and Johann Strauss...
...Wright's best known work, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, withstood the great Japanese earthquake but has partially succumbed to U.S. bombings. War department officials last week reported that the Imperial's central auditorium is now completely gutted...
...Council, it has been reported, will propose that the building be constructed as a war memorial and perhaps that a general subscription be made on this basis. The Activities Center would be a building of adequate size conveniently located and containing meeting rooms. Offices, a small theater-auditorium for speech and dramatic work, a workshop, and if the organizations polled in June expressed the need, banquet facilities and a lounge...