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Judges in the final contest, which 15,000 New Yorkers went to hear and see, were Dr. Spaeth, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Luther Corwin Steward, a Washington folk-song collector. Al Smith may have felt a sympathy with the Blessed Sacrament Lyceum Quartet of Queens which arrived in red, purple, green and yellow striped bathing suits, sang I've Been Working on the Railroad and Mandy Lee. But he and his colleagues unanimously liked best the Bay City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads...
...head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition for his water colors and drawings of Indian athletes. When his well-to-do family lost its money he went on the Redpath Lyceum circuit as a dancer. Last week Blue Eagle was on his way to Oxford to lecture and dance at the International Federation of Education...
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...