Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...
...after another since 1946, last week gave its stockholders a pleasant surprise. President Ralph S. Damon reported a profit of $3,931,910 before taxes for the first nine months of 1949, partly owing to the success of T.W.A.'s low-fare coach flights from New York to Chicago, and Kansas City to Los Angeles. With an average load of 80.5% of capacity, the coaches made up much of the revenue lost last winter when short-haul DC-35 sometimes carried only two or three passengers a trip. Explained Damon: "You can't fly an airplane with that...
...Hollywood's version of The Lost Weekend, it was the dubbed-in songs of Theodora Lynch Getty that drove the dipsomaniac hero to drink. Last week, tall, easygoing Singer Theodora Getty, 30, wife of Oilman J. Paul Getty and granddaughter of Chicago's late, famed Clothier Henry C. Lytton, was trying to drive all Hollywood to drink something else-pure Hereford water from Deaf Smith County, Texas...
Died. Clarence ("Brick") Owens, 64, burly, veteran American League umpire who retired in 1937 after 35 years of calling 'em (including 22 years in the majors); of a heart ailment; in Chicago...
Sometimes the hazards are greater. Lucille Ball once had to walk off a Chicago stage when hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first...