Word: delling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week brought the opening of Philadelphia Orchestra's fourth outdoor season before the biggest crowd since its 1930 premiere in the natural auditorium in a nook of Fairmount Park called Robin Hood Dell. The crowd acclaimed Conductor Alexander Smallens, stood up politely while his men played "The Star Spangled Banner," then sat down to listen, with mounting enthusiasm, to the Overture to The Flying Dutchman, Prelude a I'Apres- Midi d'un Faune, Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Brahms's C Minor Symphony...
Five nights later the Dell was again filled, this time for larger, more exciting entertainment-Philadelphia's first outdoor grand opera. As in most U. S. cities, even indoor opera has led a precarious existence in Philadelphia. Conductor Smallens himself once called it a "bataille des dames" (battle of ladies). That was just after his own Philadelphia Civic Opera Company, headed by Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, was disbanded, eclipsed by Mrs. Edward Bok's Philadelphia Grand Opera, which temporarily ceased functioning last autumn (TIME, Oct. 10). The fact that costumes, scenery and lighting apparatus from the Grand Opera...
First of the summer operas was Aïda with Anne Roselle and Frederick Jagel of Manhattan's Metropolitan, Giuseppe Martino-Rossi and about 150 other voices on the Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...
...went around the world, tried to visit her relatives in Abyssinia and to persuade Ras Tafari to appoint her his U. S. agent. Disorder in Palestine prevented. Home again Miss Ilma edited a pulp magazine, wrote fashion news in Cleveland, department store advertising in Manhattan; acted in Floyd Dell's Cloudy with Showers, learned acrobatic dancing, raised $10,000 for her magazine from Mrs. Thomas Lamont, Julian Huxley, any of her friends who would contribute, went to Chicago and got further backing from a printer. She smokes only pipes, has about three dozen of them, got 14 tins...
...Depression has dealt roughly with pulp publishers and authors alike. Magazines which had been selling for 25? and 20? were forced down to 10? even then lost circulation among readers who had to balance entertainment against food. Of late Dell's new 5? pulps (All Western, All Detective) have complicated the situation...