Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's announcement stirred the business world. He himself studied lists of industrial leaders to summon to the Cabinet Room, eyed such names as Owen D. Young, Thomas William Lament. Julius Rowland Barnes, Daniel Willard, William Green. Four group conferences were arranged: 1) potent railroad presidents; 2) tycoons of industry and finance; 3) husbandmen; 4) laboring...
While touring the provinces with her own group of Ibsen players, Miss Le Gallienne conceived the idea of the Civic Repertory Theatre. It was in Cincinnati that she put the proposition to her company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped...
Precise little mechanical steps grouped to suggest the scaffolding of the classic ballet, a circus girl teetering on a tight rope, a novice tempted by visions of earthly pleasures, a campus flapper inspired by John Held Jr.'s caricatures?of such varied and original material did Ruth Page create the Manhattan program. Particularly interesting were the Balinese impressions gathered from the recent visit there;* a dance called Sun-Worshippers showing a beach group in bathing suits against a backdrop of skyscrapers; blues done in crazy, geometric design...
...erection of the Institute building leaves four units still to be obtained for the completion of the physical plant of the Human Welfare Group. These are the Isolation Pavilion, the Women's Pavilion, the Surgical Pavilion, and the Semi-private Pavilion Extension...
Three million dollars will be spent the erection of the new Law School building on Davenport Avenue. According to the description of the structures file with the city building inspector, the southerly side of the group will be used for school purposes, while the Northeast side of the section will be used for dormitories. There are to be a total of 26 rooms in the dormitories...