Word: coliseums
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...Manhattan, 100 idle musicians, with Socialist and Federation support, last week announced a series of public concerts in the New York Coliseum. There they hope to draw a full audience of 15,000 to hear produced, not reproduced, music at prices as low as 25 cents and 50 cents...
...women, ordinary men and ordinary women. The train has come from Sarasota, Fla., where all winter the Circus has hibernated like the strange animal it is. It has arrived in The Bronx, northernmost borough of New York. A day or two later it is quartered in a huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts a chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade, but are now transformed. They wear gay colors and spangles. They...
...certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey and Fugazy say they will build themselves a coliseum comparable to Madison Square Garden within a year...
...Ezio Maria Gray, President of the Italian State Tourist Bureau. Wrote he, apostrophizing Editor Carli: "Perhaps, as you say, there are travelers who would like to transform Italy into a large scale gaming house, have jazz bands playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into an amusement park. You may berate such people all you like, but for heaven's sake don't exaggerate, and at least have the courtesy not to ignore the fact that there are serious-minded persons who have a conception of tourists as fitting in perfectly with...
Blue canvas for a ceiling stretched over Chicago's Coliseum last week. It was intended to represent the sky; few of the thousands who visited the first International Aeronautical Exposition under that dyed sky paid attention to it. Airport beacons flicked their beams about the room; few noticed them. People hurried around the Coliseum and two auxiliary show buildings to see and buy airplanes...