Word: lyceum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked hard, returned to the U. S. and began to make a name for himself as a pianist. At the height of his Manhattan success Tycoon Rothstein came to Munck with a great idea: to make Manhattan music's acknowledged world capital by building and endowing a Lyceum of Music, with Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself be won over by Roth-stein's young ally, Cecilia. Then began months of confusing, exhausting work for Munck as Rothstein's errand boy while the great buildings went up. With the Lyceum ready...
When the automatic elevator in which he was riding to his apartment, atop Manhattan's Lyceum Theatre, got caught between floors, Producer Daniel Frohman read his newspaper from 1 a. m. until the janitor rescued him at 10 a. m. Said he: "The first time I got caught in it I had Mary Pickford instead of a newspaper with...
...Monday, March 7, the University singers will sing for the Temple Israel Lyceum in illustration of a lecture on "Choral Music in America" to be given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director. The Glee Club will collaborate with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the regular Symphony concerts on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, when it will sing the "Faust Symphony," by Liszt. The next appearance of the Glee Club with the Boston Orchestra will be on Sunday, March 27, when the two organizations will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society to perform again the "Mass...
Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better Understanding. Dr. Bruce S. Wright, Christian Century's Buffalo correspondent, was one of Lawyer Darrow's opponents in Buffalo and Erie, Pa. In last fortnight's Christian Century he described the workings of the Darrow forums as follows: Promoter Whitehead, himself a good Methodist. goes...
...members of the club will go on a short tour over the week-end of Washington's birthday. On March 3 a concert will be given at Plymouth and on March 7, the club will sing in illustration of a lecture by Dr. Davison at the Temple Israel Lyceum...