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...city was in a mood to build a War Memorial for which it proceeded to raise $2,000,000 by popular subscription. There was talk then of building an opera house to relieve the necessity of using Dreamland, the local prize fight hall, or the barnlike Civic Auditorium where the Democratic National Convention was held in 1920. Veterans felt that any War Memorial should be specially useful to them. There were years of dispute until Richard Montgomery Tobin, onetime (1923-29) Minister to The Netherlands took command. As a veteran and a music- enthusiast he was able to reconcile both...
...successful in a variety of businesses (wrapping-machinery, Korn King products, auto supplies) since leaving Cornell in 1919. Like most of his friends he lives in fashionable Lake Forest. One of his friends who did not live in Lake Forest was the late Patrick T. ("Paddy") Harmon, proprietor of "Dreamland" (dance pavilion) and promoter of bicycle races who was killed in a motor accident last July. For years...
...University Theatre were probably not on hand last night to see Feagan and his pals "bump off" their victim. They know that "Flash" the famous movie canine, got "Feagan's gang" on the University screen all during the first part of the week, and that the desperadoes of "The Dreamland Cafe Below the Deadline" in the picture "Shadows of the Underworld" could not possibly injure the genial traffic officer...
...concentrated doses, in early autumn, the San Francisco Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera in the casts, such famed ones...
...wafts him into dreamland's pearly deep...