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...Cincinnati one afternoon last week 60 Negro singers supplied a sequel to that long-ago concert. Wearing neat-looking vestments which Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller had given them, they appeared in Emery Auditorium, stirred a fashionable audience with their singing of difficult church music and of spirituals. Like the eleven Christians of long ago, they had come from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.* The first Fisk Singers made $50 from their concert in the Vine Street Church. They turned it over to refugees from the Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved...
...Year-hunter could hardly fail to spot John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as Builder of the Year with Rockefeller Center...
Contrasting with the severity of Roxy's Music Hall auditorium is the decoration of the surrounding public rooms, for the most part the work of advanced young painters and sculptors encouraged by Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the lobby is a mighty mural by Ezra Winter. Yasuo Kuniyoshi decorated a ladies' "powder room" (toilet). The hands of Witold Gordon, Louis Bouche, Henry Billings, Donald Deskey (who art-directed the whole theatre) are in evidence...
Bertram Cutler, agent & representative of the John Davison Rockefellers, was elected a director of Radio Corp., succeeding Westinghouse's Andrew Wells Robertson. Rockefeller Center, Inc. owns 100,000 preferred A shares of Radio, received in return for reducing the amount of space in Radio's lease...
...This Davison report was considered a classic compendium of unfortunate events. Other write-offs included: "Uncollectable receivables- $1,556,842. Provision for loss on accounts due from former officer of subsidiary company (including charges of $138,310 resulting from litigation)-$303,557. Provision for loss in realization of advances to The Silica Gel Corp.- $1,916,800. Loss on sale of stock held under officials' and employes' stock purchase plan-$322,222." Six contingent liabilities, including three lawsuits, were also listed...