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...four engagements, drew 10,000 at Robin Hood Dell. Marian Anderson brought the Stadium its top audience, 23,000 customers. Last week Baritone John Charles Thomas and 8,000 other musicians, including a 2,000-piece band, packed 100,000 people in Soldier Field for the annual Chicagoland Music Festival (admission 50? and $1) put on by the Tribune...
Chicago newspapers have a hardheaded, warm-hearted habit of giving free entertainment to Chicago's populace. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune held its annual Chicagoland Music Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own-a "Swing Jam Session" of five "name...
...electric companies in Chicago should be distinct. Last week, three days before he was 63, handsome, grey-suited Utilitarian Simpson went before a special meeting of Edison stockholders, asked for permission to put together all the old Insull utility companies in Northern Illinois except Peoples Gas into one great Chicagoland company reaching to the Mississippi River -a Commonwealth Edison Co. with $746,000,000 resources. Two court suits seeking injunctions against the management were disposed of before the meeting and the plan James Simpson and his engineers had been working on for two years was put to vote, overwhelmingly approved...
Biggest attraction was, of course, the Century of Progress, which on Sunday broke its previous attendance record (272,000 on Aug. 25) to ring up 361,000 paid admissions and rang up another 240,000 Monday when Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson talked on Labor. But Chicagoland had much else to offer. In suburban Highland Park Virginia Van Wie retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference...
Chicago's Century of Progress revealed only a minimum of progress musically until late in August. Then it went vocal in the largest way, with two huge musical spectacles and promise of more to come. In Soldier Field the Chicago Tribune staged its fourth annual Chicagoland Music Festival, a nocturnal orgy of community singing and bandplaying, polished off with a prodigious display of fireworks. Though rival newspapers enthusiastically ignored the festival, it was a thumping spectacle such as visitors at fairs love to see. Some 85,000 spectators vigorously applauded as Bandmaster Arthur Pryor directed massed bands through favorite...