Word: lyceum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia, March 18--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the NRA, was booed today every time his name was mentioned at a meeting of 800 union automobile workers and strikers at the Kensington Labor Lyceum...
...hard not to expect a chorus to come tripping on any moment, faces and limbs aglow with professional cheer. Our sense of hearing, dulled by this disappointment, and by the discovery that we had been trepanned off practically into the wings, was not helped by the acoustics of the Lyceum. Altogether there was every reason to come away from the play disgruntled and disquieted. It speaks well for "Sailor, Beware," that we didn...
...Tribune when Horace Greeley owned it, later became advance agent for Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels. When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house his famed stock company which played in such successes as The Wife, Lord Chumley, The Prisoner of Zenda. He also ran the famed old Madison Square Theatre at which Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906. His last production was The Seven Sisters in 1911, when...
Died. Edward Hugh Sothern, 73, retired Shakespearean actor, husband of Actress Julia Marlowe; of pneumonia; in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. In 1885 Daniel Frohman spotted him playing in Mona, took him into the Lyceum Stock Company where he became leading man and married the leading lady, Virginia Harned. They were divorced in 1910. Some time before that, began the halcyon days when he toured with Julia Marlowe in a train of twelve cars, doing Shakespeare from Hamlet to Twelfth Night. He "retired" in 1916, appeared again at intervals, collapsed on a Denver lecture platform three years ago and retired...
...Koehler, administrative go-getter, was the Lyceum's real head, lost no opportunities to show Munck his place. Munck swallowed his pride, went on teaching piano and trying unsuccessfully to get on with his composition. In one pupil, tall, gawky Jeanette. he became really interested; soon he was in love with her. When she went away with a younger man Munck hardly cared what happened next. After a while he pulled himself together, resigned from the Lyceum, got a job kettledrumming in an orchestra. He commuted to his work from a shabby town in New Jersey. There till late...