Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter, when the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs were in the lath-&-scaffold stage, New Yorkers and San Franciscans were already discussing tall plans for the music Fairgoers were to hear. Tallest planning was in Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign...
...time the Fair opened Director Downes got his second wind. Banking on patriotic fervor rather than musical interest, he succeeded in getting Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to hire the New York Philharmonic-Symphony for a concert or two apiece of their own national tunes. Nobody else was interested. But there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special...
Meanwhile San Francisco sat and moped over its music. Director of the San Francisco Fair's music, dollar-eyed, dewlapped Harris De Haven Connick, had pictured a rosy future on an $800,000 budget. But last week, with their Fair already open more than two months and Director Connick out on his ear, irate San Franciscans were clamoring for more and better music. So far the most important music absorbed by San Francisco's 2,900,301 Fairgoers was played by Edwin Franko Goldman's band. After booping inconspicuously in odd spots about the Fair grounds...
...Broadway blithe May brings only the kiss of death. This year, however, May tripped into Manhattan carrying in her arms a lusty infant World's Fair from Flushing, Long Island, a babe supposed to bring luck to Broadway. All it has brought so far is one of the worst theatrical slumps in years, perhaps because the curious are visiting the Fair instead of the theatre...
...financially, 1938-39 was a cut above 1937-38. Like last season, about 50% of its 90-odd plays were out-&-out flops. But compared to last season's 19, 24 plays ran (or will run for the Fair) over 100 performances...