Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer theater. Last week Broadway had four openings, certainly a recent record for late June; and for the first time in 15 years, producers are thinking of stock companies for Broadway. The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., has moved this summer to the grand ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The Hilltop Theater of Ellicott City, Md. has opened in Baltimore. There is a stock company at the Willard Hotel in Washington. There will be stock, as usual, in Chicago, Louisville, St. Louis...
...Protestant congregation: 14,000). He is New York City's first and only Negro councilman. He has led picket lines, organized campaigns for jobs for Negro clerks and doctors. He is a close friend of Harlem's No. 1 boogie-woogie manager, Charles Buchanan of the Savoy Ballroom. He employs five secretaries and a liveried chauffeur. And he has his eye on Congress...
...Institute agenda. It was not introduced by mild-mannered Writer-Director Norman Corwin, though Corwin, at what was supposed to be a routine discussion of radio drama, lit into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because...
...slogan of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States is "Let's Get It Done." Last week some 3,000 top-flight industrialists assembled for the Chamber's 30th annual meeting, found that the U.S. is getting it done. In the flamboyant grand ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Stevens, in committee rooms, in private suites and over late nightcaps, the story was the same: short, sharp debates over taxes, price ceilings, the 40-hour week, the closed shop; then long, heartening discussions of production...
Hesitating Blues (Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers; Decca). Compelling blues rhythms and rough, torrid blowing from an eight-man combination. Spanier, long venerated in the hot-jazz world, lately smashed attendance records at Manhattan's Arcadia Ballroom, now rates as a name-bander...