Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will open the program with a work by Michael Starokadomsky, a composer of Soviet Russia whose music has recently come to the attention of the western world. It is a concerto for orchestra in three movements, performed as a feature of the Festival of Contemporary Music in Paris last June...
Since 1932 two presidents of the University of Oregon have resigned. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, who took the job in 1926, quit six years later. Last June his successor, frail, scholarly Dr. Clarence Valentine Boyer, said his poor health would not allow him to continue as president...
...Edzard and Eisendieck soon became the best of friends, began to paint so much alike that laymen now have some difficulty in telling their work apart. He it was who interested Mme Zak in his friend's paintings, saw her proudly through a typical Leicester Galleries opening last June, attended by everybody from hatchet-faced Lady Oxford to the Baroness d'Erlanger and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. All the Eisendieck pictures were sold within a week...
...Cradle Will Rock (music and words by Marc Blitzstein; presented by the Mercury Theatre). To John Houseman and Orson Welles, the producers of Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is an old problem. They tried to produce it in Manhattan last June for the WPA theatre, were stopped on dress rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing...
...patrons to N. H. M.'s flashy Hotel Lexington, less than two blocks away. Hitz had taken over the Lexington in 1932, put in his old friend Charles E. Rochester as manager and by 1936 had upped annual gross operating revenues from $74,000 to $400,000. Last June when the Montclair was offered for sale, Hitz and a group of friends proceeded to buy it for $3,000,000. Thereupon, Hotel Lexington, Inc. canceled its contract with N. H. M. Manager Rochester quit Hitz to continue as the Lexington's manager. Ralph Hitz has not spoken...