Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along University Avenue at the University of Southern California one afternoon last week, some 100 students huddled in the rain, waiting for the voice that would soon come through the loudspeaker. Inside Bovard Auditorium, 1,500 more waited in their seats. Finally, Professor Frank C. Baxter, dressed in a 20-year-old dark blue suit, mounted the podium and took his place behind a-lectern piled with books. As the murmuring and chattering stopped, the professor began to read...
...little auditorium was heavy with the odors of whisky breaths and unwashed bodies. Eyes-cunning, defiant, haunted, hopeless, anguished and apathetic-fixed on the platform where McKeown and Larder sat surrounded by a small band of soldiers and converts...
...Kaltenborn '09, news commentator for the National Broadcasting Company, will speak at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Littauer Auditorium under the auspices of the Free Enterprise Society. He will discuss "Our Divided World...
...roomy, rococo City Center theater (converted from an old Shrine auditorium), the curtain went up on Marc Chagall's Firebird sets, and the audience gasped with pleasure. The brilliant red-and-blue sets, commissioned four years ago by Impresario Sol Hurok for Ballet Theatre, had been picked up by low-budget City Center at cut-rate. But the sets, gay though they were, were the oldest feathers on the new Firebird...
...last acts of frail, white-haired Composer Bela Bartok before his death in 1945 was to complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...