Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...
...given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
That was in 1772. Last week a similar scene took place in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Sergei Koussevitzky's famed Boston Symphony had announced a "concert extraordinaire." Manhattan concertgoers could see that something was up when 18th-Century ushers led them to their seats. When Boston's stiff-necked orchestra appeared in silk stockings and periwigs with Conductor Koussevitzky himself got up as Franz Joseph ("Papa") Haydn, they began to catch on. Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left...
...Dryden and Henry Purcell, with a cast of over 100 actors, dancers, and singers, will be put on the boards Tuesday March 14, and Wednesday March 15 by the Lowell House Musical Society. Like last year's "Dido and Aeneas," the performance will be given in the Bellboys' dining hall...
Today is the last day upon which courses beginning in the second half year may be changed (dropped or added) without liability of a $5.00 charge. Petitions must be filed in person with the Committee on the Choice of Electives, Room C, University Hall...