Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came off, an inverted bowl of bakelite. Exposed was a crazy-quilt of skin patches, splotched with blue and red and white, and pulsating. Norman Douglas' skull, rotting from a 5.000 h. p. electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...
Amiable, boyish Percy Aldrich Grainger, 46, was sternly rehearsing the Hollywood Bowl symphony orchestra. He was for the first time in his life to do three things at Hollywood this week, and he must do each with éclat. The Hollywood crowd, although it pays only 25? a seat, is exigent. The last week in July they jeered and cat-called at soloist Aaron Copland because they did not like his Jazz Concerto. That must not happen to Percy Aldridge Grainger...
...thing for him was to conduct the orchestra in the Hollywood Bowl, vast amphitheatre built in a scoop of Hollywood's hills...
Arriving by air in Los Angeles last week for a series of eight concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Coates, famed English orchestra leader, delivered a note on his methods of conducting: "I find that by wearing huge white cuffs and using long sweeping motions, I am able to exact a greater sympathy and feeling from the musicians who are playing for me. . . . Musicians can follow shirt cuffs better than an almost invisible baton...
...night and could not be reached for a statement on the matter.WOODEN STANDS, CONDEMNED BY FIREMEN, WILL GIVE PLACE TO CONCRETE STRUCTURE The Stadium wooden stands that have been so long a bone of contention with the Boston fire-commissioners may be supplanted this fall by a modern concrete bowl. The Corporation has authorized the Director of Athletics to consider plans for such a project submitted by C. A. Coolidge...