Word: mecca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York the recently finished Mecca temple, which is one of the largest theatres in the City was crowded to capacity, and a large number of subscriptions turned down...
Here the production will be in the Mecca Temple Since this building contains a large ballroom, as well as a theatre, arrangements have been made for a regular cabaret and dancing in the ballroom after the show is over...
...reception of the play was remarkable; but in no city was it as remarkable as in Boston--the theatrical Mecca for the Cambridge students. The opening night is rapidly becoming historic; Harvard evidently had different ideas as to the truth of Mrs. Young's comedy. The students demonstrated their opinions with violent mass methods. But this local disturbance only served to make the play more widely known and gave it impetus for a long run elsewhere. It was a creditable success for anyone; for a young woman of 32 it was distinctly gratifying...
Otto Klemperer, seven-foot German conductor here for an engagement as guest leader of the New York Symphony, walked on the stage of Mecca Auditorium, bent his big frame to bow to a fascinated audience, turned to the orchestra. He lifted his great arms and the entire orchestra fell under the shadow of his wings, very capable wings that have sheltered most of the prominent orchestras of Europe. New Yorkers, who like to see as well as hear, watched him fascinated, saw him hunch his great head down between his shoulders, pick with his long fingers short staccatos from...
...aero-engineer, is widely known as an international yachtsman, a minor big-game hunter, and a member of the famed Eccentrics' Club of London. His marriage in 1916 to Ethel Grace Levey, divorced wife of George M. Cohan, has resulted in making his villa at Palm Beach, "Miraflores," the Mecca of numerous vacationing thespians. Hence there were many who rejoiced last week at Mr. Grahame-White's success in selling his famed Hendon Airdrome at London to the British Government...