Word: lyceums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never believed him. In 1888 a Boston woman named Caroline Nichols formed the first all-woman symphony orchestra in the U. S. Her "Fadette Women's Orchestra" (named after the heroine of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette) barnstormed up & down the U. S. on Lyceum courses and vaudeville circuits, grossed more than half a million dollars before disbanding in 1920. Since Maestra Nichols first started swinging her mutton-chop sleeves many a woman's orchestra has been heard in the land. Since few U. S. symphony orchestras hire women players, female fiddlers and cellists...
During the April recess the debating team will take a trip through the South, holding debates with various colleges. The next debate is with the Cambridge Lyceum on February 13. The following day the debaters will argue against Stanford over the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...loves to be lectured. For no years it has been paying countless U. S. and British writers to exhort, educate and berate it. It all started in 1826, when Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut and the lyceum movement began the long, uncomfortable cross-country trips of uncertain financial return and doubtful educational value that have come to be known as lecture tours...
...risky game started by the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Dec. 21), and up to play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald...
...Pittsburgh live three Catholic priests who believe that Mother Church can meet Radicalism, her archfoe, on its own ground. One night last week they assembled 300 followers in the Pittsburgh Lyceum to hear about their month-old Catholic Radical Alliance. With 200 working members, these priests have attempted to get into labor strife wherever it was thickest. Their activities had been featured on the front pages of the Pittsburgh Catholic, and last week that official organ of conservative Bishop Hugh Charles Boyle printed the Alliance's appeal for funds. Excerpts...