Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood finally got in on San Francisco's show. The movies took over the signing ceremony this week. The stage in the Veterans' Building auditorium was lowered to orchestra-floor level. Indigo blue drapes circled the room; in the center was a huge circular table with a smoky blue base and cover. A royal blue runner led through a narrow opening in the drapes. Through this aperture the delegations would file, one at a time, to sit in gold-backed Louis Quinze chairs...
...Fastest campaigner was chunky Socialist Major (a name, not a title) James Coldwell, who zipped by air from the west to the east coast in six days, made six speeches. In an Ottawa auditorium, he stood before a backdrop of signs reading "Jobs for All" and "Homes for All," talked for an hour to an audience of 1,200. His biggest platform promises: socialization of monopolies, high taxes on high incomes, 5,000,000 jobs, 1,000,000 new houses...
...brilliant: Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Beethoven's Seventh. ("We didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...
This week Victor Alessandro, 29, is making good his 24-year-old threat. From the podium of Oklahoma City's Municipal Auditorium he will guest-conduct the Minneapolis Symphony. And the experience will not be particularly novel. In the past six years, small, stocky Conductor Alessandro has led his own Oklahoma...
Emerging from its recent losing streak, the Harvard Debate Council last night defeated a team from Princeton University. Before some 200 people in Rhode island State University's Quinn Auditorium at Kingston, Rhode Island, Richard N. Gardner '48 and Richard T. Gill '48 defeated the Nassau team...