Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...