Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage goes, and many of whom have passed on, as humanity yields its units to the touch of time. Mrs. Owen and I alternated for several years at writing for our paper reviews of productions as presented at Montgomery's famous old show house, the Grand Theatre. After Mrs. Owen and I had returned to the Advertiser's offices one night from witnessing a rather shabby musical comedy, which had as its only hope for success a chorus of the type-40 beautiful girls-count 'em, Mrs. Owen wrote her review. She handed her "copy" over...
...departments of fire, building, elevator and electrical inspection, maintenance & repairs. Most famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush to fires." New appointee is Kern...
...definite statement emerged last week from the smoke surrounding the possibilities of opera in Manhattan's Radio City. Latest talk has been that the Metropolitan has abandoned all idea of becoming a subsidiary of the Rockefeller venture, that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would be invited in on the strength of the enterprise shown in its presentations of Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Richard Strauss's Elektra...
Widow Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who has paid a stiff price for the Philadelphia company's enterprise, had nothing to say. But Musical Director Leopold Stokowski declared authoritatively that both. the Philadelphia Grand Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra would come to Radio City for guest performances while continuing to give their regular seasons at home. Exchange visits would be arranged with "whatever company is installed in Radio City," he said, perhaps with the Chicago Civic Opera too. To allay one practical difficulty of such a scheme, stage dimensions will be the same in Radio City's opera house...
Creator of American Commonwealths and its mainspring was Frank Theodore Hulswit. He was born in Grand Rapids 56 years ago, the son of a local merchant. His great-grandfather was Jan Hulswit (1766-1822), famed Dutch painter. In 1904 Frank Hulswit and Ralph Child formed the investment firm of Child-Hulswit & Co. which was dissolved in 1912. In 1910 Mr. Hulswit organized United Light & Railways Co., the nucleus of United Light & Power Co. In 1926 he was reputed to be worth $12,000,000. That year there was a great break in public utility stocks. United dropped from...