Word: balaban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of his parishioners of Holy Trinity Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, in a down-at-heel section of St. Louis, Rev. Sophrony Balaban, with his neat black beard, his hefty frame, his genial smile, seemed a fine figure of a man. Twirling a big walking stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone...
Arrested with five other men, Father Balaban was haled before a U. S. commissioner in St. Louis, charged with having possessed apparatus for making the "queer," having given a homemade $20 bill to a parishioner of 15 years' standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending...
...Manhattan debut this year is Sybil Goldberg, 14, pianist, daughter of a stage hand in Chicago's Balaban & Katz theatres. She has already played with the Cincinnati and Kansas City Symphonies...
Died. Goldie Balaban Levin, 67, mother of Chicago's seven Balaban brothers (President Barney of Paramount Pictures Inc., Harry, Elmer, John, David, A. J. and the late Max), who rented their first motion picture theatre with her $500 capital, built up the $20,000,000 Balaban & Katz chain; after brief illness; in Miami...
Four days later Balaban & Katz's Iris Theatre got Superior Court Judge Walter T. Stanton to issue an injunction restraining police from interfering with drawings on the ground that Bank Night did not come under the lottery laws. Balaban & Katz promptly re-opened Bank Night drawings. Warner Bros, and smaller Chicago chains planned to follow suit...