Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed opera house need not be supported by royalty, nor by directors. Part of the building is a 26-story apartment house. The rent will help to defray maintenance...
...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
...Hope Hampton produced the agreeably unexpected-a more than good enough voice, a fair acting talent and a head of red hair that in most prima donnas would make up for everything. Here she is occupied in crashing U. S. society with the help of an organ-grinder posing as a prince. There are a few, a very few, jokes...
Monday evening was an important evening at the Repertory Theatre. Christopher Morley's first play was produced for the first time anywhere, right-here in our own little Boston. Mr. Morley was on hand to help bring his off-spring into the harsh, cruel world. Boston's best or most of Boston's best, anyway, were there to see the show. All in all, Monday evening was a very, very important evening...
...Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden trip and sunk with the loss of 1500 lives. The British Government invited the nations of the world to a conference held at London where an agreement was drafted and later signed by which all the powers agreed to help defray the expenses of an International Ice Patrol in proportion to their respective shipping...