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Former war padres and their once militant flocks surged into Albert Hall, famed Victorian mecca of public gatherings and sounding board for many a worthy cause. Within they found Edward, Prince of Wales, with the "Toc. H." lamp in his hand. "Toc. H."ers performed an interlude in seven episodes. The Rev. P. B. Clayton, founder of "Toc. H." was there. At the conclusion of the ceremony innumerable additional "Toc. H." lamps were lit, and lamp bearers started for New Zealand, South Africa, India...
Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony Orchestra sought volume and found it-volume in seating capacity, not sound. Last week they opened their Sunday concerts not in their accustomed Aeolian Hall but in Mecca Auditorium. The difference is this: 1,200 seats v. 3,700. Mr. Damrosch pronounced the acoustics of Mecca...
...Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh and 40 of 50 other towns for better than 20 months, it would seem an impertinence to advise the world at large that it is a good show. It is, however, one of the few shows that have resolutely kept away from Manhattan, supposedly the money Mecca of the Theatre, and done its road tour first. There are still several companies playing in the smaller cities. The Broadway troupe is headed by Louise Groody and Charles Winninger, as pretty a dancer and as funny a fool as the town now boasts. Mr. Winninger is a married...
Leaving the rest of the country to think what it liked, the General rushed up to Chautauqua New York, dry mecca. He made a speech He told the Chautauqua that bootlegging rested upon corruption of Government officials, that a major object of his regime was to purify the enforcement personnel. He also stated that his greatest problem was the "market" the unescapable fact that some people wanted. liquor and would pay money...
...short while ago, Norway upheld its dry law in a general election. France has placed all radio under the censorship of the police. Smoking has been prohibited in Mecca, the Holy City of the Moslems. In Russia the soviet commissar of health has issued an edict against kissing. Not only is the usual form of this indoor sport forbidden, the kissing of ladies' hands by men is also taboo. The practice is doubly accursed, being both unhygienic and bourgeois. Handshaking, too, has been prohibited in many departments...