Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
Married. Theodore De Long Buhl, heir to $24,000,000 nephew of Florenz Ziegfeld and son of Mrs. Willis Buhl of Detroit; to Anastasia Reilly, onetime (1926) Ziegfeld Follies girl; in Manhattan. Present were Mr. & Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld (Billie Burke) & others...
...Wayco Oil Corp., Detroit...
Toward Upper Canada crept another people, settlers from the older, lower provinces of Canada neither English-speaking nor English-thinking. Opposite the Detroit River, one of them (the Count de Cadillac) founded a trading station. French countrymen followed, settling small farms, laboring in lumber camps, infiltrating the zealously English Province of Ontario with French blood & customs...
...great menace of Notre Dame developed as expected in Detroit, defeating the local University 20-0. ¶ In the South, the once famous Centre College lost docilly to Vanderbilt, 6 points...