Word: detroit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Detroit Chamber, however, brought the question to the fore by producing a voluminous report on the subject, which may briefly be characterized as favoring peace, prosperity and greater mutual understanding. At the conclusion of this document was a resolution, calling upon the International Chamber of Commerce to arrange for "a general international economic conference to deal with the important question involved in the restoration of world-wide prosperity...
...return she was to have had her long desired American debut as an opera prima donna. She did sing with the Company in Detroit, Albany, New London. She sang the difficult role of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, but under assumed names. Her appearance under her real name was to be reserved for Manhattan. In one Manhattan performance Mme. Walska was about to take her role, but stepped aside to enable a new singer to make her debut. She was to appear in the next performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But that performance never came...
From Manhattan comes Harry Harkness Flagler, backer of the New York Symphony Orchestra (Mr. Mackay is of the New York Philharmonic) ; from Los Angeles, W. A. Clark, Jr.; from Minneapolis, Elbert L. Carpenter; from Chicago, Charles H. Hamill; from Detroit, William H. Murphy; from Cincinnati, Mrs. Charles P. Taft; from Cleveland, Mrs. John L. Severance; from Rochester, home of the youngest of all big orchestras, George Eastman; from Philadelphia, Alexander van Rensselaer, acting for Edward W. Bok; from Boston, Judge Frederick P. Cabot, the successor of Major Lee Higginson. With them will come 13 business managers...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company began a 10,000-mile transcontinental tour. The first .stop was scheduled for Boston, then Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Tulsa, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Wichita, Kansas City. Mefistofele, Boris, Cléopatre, The Jewess and Salomé will be featured...
...pushed energetically. He was to have conducted a performance of his own opera, Der Barenhauter, with the Wagnerian Opera Company, but the bankruptcy of the company has canceled this. He is scheduled to conduct programs with the principal orchestras in the country- in New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco. One Hand...