Word: hadley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan: Frederick Shepherd Converse, the late Professor Horatio William Parker, of Yale (his Mono, was awarded a $10,000 prize), Walter Damrosch (to whom Peter Ibbetson is dedicated), Victor Herbert Reginald de Koven, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Adam Hugo, Joseph Carl Breil, Henry Kimball Hadley, John Alden Carpenter. Composer Carpenter's Skyscrapers, a ballet, and Taylor's The King's Henchman survived longer than the dreary ten which preceded them...
...later life he has obtained minor thrills composing songs. Last year the name "Will Woodin" was given as the composer of a bookful of children's jingles. And last week William Hartman Woodin was the name listed as composer of four unpretentious musical impressions which Conductor Henry Hadley's Manhattan Orchestra played in St. George's Church. Fairly descriptive were the titles "Chinese Magic," "The Unknown Soldier" (inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when...
...concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra tonight in Sanders Theatre will consist of Symphony No. 1 in E fat by Hadyn; "Masquerade" by McKinley; "Salome," Tone poem after Oscar Wilde's Tragedy, Opus 55 by Hadley; and Suite for Orchestra, "Streets of Pekin," by Hadley...
...Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...Post Office Department designated Newark Municipal Airport as official eastern terminus for the transcontinental airmail. National Air Transport, operator of the New York-Cleveland-Chicago route, insisted the field was unfit for night landings of heavily loaded Douglas and Boeing ships, refused to move its base from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. While a three-cornered dispute was waged, New Yorkers continued to wait an extra 90 min. for airmail to be transported from distant Hadley Field to Manhattan's postoffices. Last week there was an air pageant of jubilation above Newark airport. The field had been...