Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerous U. S. localities which maintain open-air summer concerts, only the Hollywood Bowl pretentiously labels its performances "Symphonies Under the Stars." One night last week Peggy Wood, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Corinne Griffith and some 18,000 others heard Otto Klemperer play Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Al-beniz, Berlioz in the Bowl's opener. Conductors to follow during the eight-week season : Willem Mengelberg, Ernest Schelling, Bernardino Molinari, José Iturbi...
From the Hollywood Bowl last week many an auditor glanced up at a hill 1,000 ft. away where, once an evening, a spot light picked out a man in a flowing robe stumbling along with a cross. In an out door theatre beneath the hill was being performed the Pilgrimage Play, a 15-year-old event in California. Compiled by the late Christine Wetherill Stevenson, a rich Bible student who left money to assure its performance, the Pilgrimage Play presents the entire life of Christ. The actors, like Ian Maclaren who has been Christ for six years, are professionals...
...Sirens screamed; storekeepers thrust exuberant signs in windows; offices closed early. By midnight most of Rapid City and the surrounding countryside had trekked southwest to the rim of Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black Hills. There a hushed throng of 50,000 stared down into a floodlit bowl as Explorer II, latest & greatest stratosphere balloon, was made ready for its first ascent. Year ago Explorer I, latest & greatest of its day, had lurched reluctantly skyward from the same natural amphitheatre near Rapid City. At 60,000 ft. the great bag had popped open, plummeted in tatters. Saving themselves...
...rest of the ground-crew, led by Balloonists Anderson and Stevens, dashed into the still-settling debris, speedily dragged out all the buried men, found none injured. The gondola, too, survived safely, but the bag, ripped, tumbled, knotted, was badly damaged. As the crowd on the rim of the bowl filtered away in the dawn, the camp gloomily began to pick up the pieces of one more false start into outer space...
...miniature, it was. Just two years ago the industrial researcher for Speculator Bernard Mannes Baruch had bellowed to newshawks that NRA was to be operated "in a goldfish bowl." Last week Hugh Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark...