Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel of an old-fashioned stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
...Louis last week the rambling Municipal Auditorium bustled with doctors who do a good deal of worrying and considerable arguing about their professional status. Supporting their claim to cover every branch of medicine and surgery, the 2,000 visitors at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association heard papers and discussions on neuropsychiatry, gynecology, proctology, techniques in brain surgery. But stamping them as "sectarian," within the definition of the American Medical Association, was their obsession with the memory and dogma of osteopathy's founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, whose life and work were endlessly eulogized...
...looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo and Da Vinci...
...supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build a civic auditorium in the park...
...trimmed down a little bit." So cracked a Baptist last week at the 43rd annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention in San Francisco. But the 2,727 delegates and 2,292 visitors who met for four days in the city's huge, dusty-looking Civic Auditorium surprised themselves by their harmony...