Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FEAST WHILE WE STARVE. At a banquet at which Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot was-speaking on leisure, Wal's men appeared with signs reading: LEISURE IS NO PLEASURE. They crowded into a white-tie feast attended by Civilian Defense Chief Sir John Anderson, flopped in the foyer like defenseless citizens in an air raid, and shouted for work on air raid precautions projects...
...Museum has chosen a group of documentary watercolor sketches of an Arizona mining town and of the San Francisco waterfront by Lewis W. Rubenstein. Rubenstein is no stranger to the Germanic for two other exhibitions of his works have been on view there and the large murals in the foyer of the Museum were executed...
...Completely surrounded by congratulations in the foyer" (so reported Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner), "Mrs. Royden Keith, in black velvet trimmed with a diamante bodice, received all the between-the-acts applause with such modesty as the president of the Orchestral Association should assume." In the boxes of the Auditorium Theatre sat other Chicago socialite ladies, flashing even more ermine and jewels than had been exhibited at the opening of the Chicago City Opera last fortnight. The ladies were out in force, for this was a ladies' evening. On the stage, pretty Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao (Manhattan...
...Realistic Theatre, Observer Houghton got into the swing of Russian experimentation. Play was called The Iron Flood. Spectators were kept waiting in the theatre's foyer until suddenly two actors dressed like soldiers went tearing through the crowd carrying water buckets. There upon doors opened into an auditorium domed with sky blue cloth. At one end was a large earthen mound. On it was camped a detachment of Russian soldiers, their women and children. On two sides were seats. "We spent four hours with the Red Army in the field- that was all," recalls Observer Houghton. "The wounded dragged...
...most inept performance. In Carmen Manager Longone interpolated a floor show by the popular dance team, Veloz & Yolanda. His innovation had its box-office effect but purists shuddered at his taste, as they did again when he permitted a Buick sedan to be exhibited in the opera house foyer. When Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned (TIME, Dec. 2), more than Longone's taste was questioned. Longone claimed that Papi was either unable or unwilling to conduct La Fiamma, that he was prejudiced against U. S. singers. Papi retaliated with the blazing charge that Longone permitted singers of indifferent merit...