Word: dells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell last week, Chilean-born Pianist Claudio Arrau set some kind of record: he played both of Johannes Brahms's monumental piano concertos, Nos. 1 & 2, the longest two in the standard piano repertoire, all on one program. The audience liked it fine, and so did the critics...
...weather has been a wet blanket to big-time outdoor symphonies this summer. In Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, 50% of the scheduled performances have been called on account of rain. In Manhattan, about one out of four of the famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts have been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York...
From Newport to Hollywood. Van Dell Johnson, of Swedish extraction, was brought up in Newport, R.I. At 19 he abandoned a boyish ambition to be a trapeze artist in favor of a theatrical career in New York. The career, such as it was, lasted six years. It wound up in Hollywood, under contract to Warners at $300 a week, with little work and less attention. Johnson was about to leave town when Lucille Ball gave him a fight-talk and an introduction to Metro...
...this rattlebang old stage hit by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell (Little Accident, 1928) Mr. Cooper comes by his crushing responsibility somewhat unconventionally. For some time, in fact, as Cooper and his prospective second father-in-law Frank Morgan gamily swap innuendoes, the audience thrills to the possibility that he is the father of one of cinema's rare bastards, and a farcical one at that. For he is called to Chicago on the day he is to marry a home-town girl, to do his duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital. As it turns...
...Budapest, George Szell grew up an infant prodigy, made his debut as a pianist and composer at the age of ten with the Vienna Symphony. He rose to be chief maestro of the pre-Hitler Berlin Opera. This summer he will conduct at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, Chicago's Ravinia Park and the Hollywood Bowl...