Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio listeners, being human, want the best of everything. But they don't always get it. The nightly ether-music is too often indirect advertising. Prudent musicians object to the broadcasting of their programs; people won't buy seats in stuffy concert halls if they can stay at home and listen to the same thing. For these and allied reasons, the Chicago Civic Opera will not broadcast its performances this Winter...
...expected that radio sales will approximate $400,000,000 during the current year. This would yield a stamp-income of at least $1,500,000 per annum-enough to hire, in the words of the announcement, "the best-known performers of the stage and concert platform." The plan is recommended by a special committee appointed by E. F. McDonald, President of the Broadcasters' Association. It was considered the best of over 100 submitted by various radio organizations. It will undoubtedly be adopted at the Broadcasters' Annual Convention in September and will then come before Secretary Hoover, "Dictator...
...Celtic (White Star)-The Jubilee Singers (Negro) of Fisk University, Nashville, from a concert tour of England...
...ground floor (the present concert hall), which will be occupied by the Woolworth Co., will probably represent the most important store in their large chain of approximately 1,350 five-and-ten-cent stores, including stores in England and Canada. The deal emphasizes the tremendous growth of this company, which started about 40 years ago with one small store at Lancaster...
...years ago the impetuous prima donna retired from the Metropolitan. She announced then that she would spend two years on the concert platform, after which she would stage her own Carmen. To this plan she has strictly adhered, without temperamental swerving...