Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jascha Heifefz and the Hollywood Bowl had words. The Bowl management made public covert cracks about "certain artists" wanting a lot of money and then deciding not to play. Heifetz promptly fielded the innuendo. The Bowl, said he to the public, had begged him to play, and he had agreed to for $5,000, and then the Bowl itself had called it off. Well, sure, said the Bowl-Heifetz had promised not to tell how much he was being paid, and then he went and told. Now everybody was getting expensive ideas. "Such things as artistic interests," intoned Heifetz...
Almost everything went wrong at the Hollywood Bowl. Soprano Dorothy Maynor, the guest star, canceled her engagement because her mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...
...Glowed Dunbar: "They're wonderful. Boy, I could drink five gallons of beer!" Some in the audience, accustomed to Brahms and Wagner, found the cacophony of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
...another $1.60. First day this week, the torrent turned into a deluge. Trucks loaded with hogs and steers were lined up 30 blocks waiting for the yards to open. By sundown the number of steers received was approximately 40,000, just a cut or two under the famous Dust Bowl liquidations...
Harlow's guests at the clinic, which was devoted to a study of football movies and a general discussion of post-war gridiron trends, included Bob Neyland, head coach of the Tennessee Vols; Jack Harding, who directed the Miami University eleven, Orange Bowl champions last fall; and two former Harlow players--now coaches--who learned their football when Dick tutored the Western Maryland club. They were Al Sadusky, now line coach under Skip Stahley at George Washington University, and George Ekaitis, who coaches the Washington College, Md., squad...