Word: evanston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evanston, Ill., one Robert Kenny was arrested while motoring alone. Reason: He was playing a ukelele, driving the car with his feet and knees. Said he: "I was imitating a Hawaiian...
...usually sacrificed, they receive no payment. In addition, their schemes are often censored by stodgy directors who insist on conventionalities. But Mr. Geddes and the Chicago Fair architects find their task happy, for between them and the men who hold the moneybags is Dr. Allen Diehl Albert of Evanston, Ill., old family friend, collaborator and spokesman of Rufus Cutler Dawes,* the Fair's president. Long a journalist (Washington Times, Columbus News, Minneapolis Tribune), Dr. Albert has, since 1906, specialized in the sober-sided science of city-planning. But he agrees with the Fair planners that the impermanence...
Announcement of the names of the three Seniors who will deliver Commencement parts at the two hundred and ninety-third Commencement Day exercises of the University was given out last night by University authorities. John Phillip Cooke '29, of Evanston, Illinois, will deliver a part in Latin. James Carey Thomas Flexner '29 of New York City, and Richard Arnold Stout '29, of Louisville, Kentucky, will give the English parts. The speaker representing the Law School will be Schuyler William Livingston...
...Fine Arts. To the University of Chicago will go a "first lady" as young for her position as her husband is for his. She, born in Bay Shore, L. I., will succeed Mrs. Frederic Campbell Woodward, wife of Chicago's now Acting-President, who was born in Evanston, Ill. Still in her twenties, Mrs. Hutchins will have as much need as her husband to "ignore her youth" Not only must she be the first lady of a University, but the first lady "culturally" of a City which, perhaps faster than any other in the world, is gyrating toward cultural...
...Arbor, Mich., May 22-25, 36th annual event under the auspices of the University of Michigan; programs furnished by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock. Soloists include Sophie Braslau, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli, Edith Mason, Lawrence Tibbett, Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann. Evanston, III., May 27-June 1, 21st annual Chicago North Shore Festival. Orchestral favorites, a few novelties, the Bach B minor Mass comprise the programs, interpreted by artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark...