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...Opera has visited Cleveland, and become so popular that it now plays in Public Hall, capacity 9,400. Two years ago eight operas drew 68,000 people, an indoor world record. During the week, music-lovers arrive by special plane from Detroit, by special train from Pittsburgh, Erie, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit. Only 40% of the seat-buyers are Clevelanders. There has never been a deficit. Top price is the same as in Manhattan, $7, but there are 1,049 seats at $1. Among other cities on which the Metropolitan calls this year-Boston, Baltimore, Rochester, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta...
...exhibit lasting until Monday of authors' worksheets and original manuscripts leaned by the University of Buffalo, the Widener Poetry Room is displaying Stephen Spender's workbook, the manuscript of W. H. Auden's "Crisis," and of Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty...
Finally consenting to go out to meet the more ardent of his admirers, Brill hitchhiked to his goal, wearing a borrowed buffalo-skin coat, only to find on his arrival that he was in the midst of the Wellesley branch of the Leap Year Club of Massachusetts Women's Colleges...
...Most suitably labeled of Superman's stations is WHAM, Rochester, N. Y. Others: WOR, Manhattan; WBZ, Boston; WCAU, Philadelphia; WTIC, Hartford; WJAR, Providence; WFBL, Syracuse; WGR, Buffalo; WGY, Schenectady; WGBI, Scranton; WBZ A, Springfield, Mass...
...Hubbard quit school at 15, became door-to-door salesman for his cousin (J. Weller & Co., Practical Soaps). Few years later, a dandy in sideburns and tight pants, he had risen to No. 1 U. S. "soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp). But at 36 (in 1892) he suddenly sold out for $75,000, enrolled...