Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best artistic results it often seems unfortunate that the Metropolitan Opera Company has no competition. Not since Oscar Hammerstein presented French opera at his own Manhattan Opera House has the Broadway company been forced into jacking its standards. Then, in 1910. the Metropolitan directors purchased peace. Hammerstein received approximately a million dollars and in return he promised to present no opera in Manhattan for ten years. The nucleus of his troupe went to Chicago, developed into the Chicago Civic Opera of today, an organization devoted to Italian and French opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths...
...Health Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Dean Frank W. Nicolson of Wesleyan University, secretary) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Louis I. Dublin, statistician) collated the vital history of 40,000 graduates of eight colleges from 1870 to 1905, of 5,000 athletes of ten colleges and 6,500 honor students of six colleges from graduation until June...
...called himself the world's largest operator of cinema houses. He cited figures. He had just added a new group of 40 independent theatres in and near Manhattan, with annual profits of $5,000,000, seating capacity of 280,000. Acquisition of this new group, called Fox Metropolitan Playhouses Inc.. may bring Fox gross business in 1929 to a total of $135,000,000, Fox sealing capacity to 700,000. To fortify further his position as "biggest" William Fox gave out figures for 1930. By then, 1,000,000 persons will be ushered to seats nightly...
...Rosenkavalier are rare in the U. S. It is hard to find among the eccentric ranks of the sopranos any who are capable of filling, but not bursting, the trousers of the count, of being funny and at the same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...
...Higher than all but two Manhattan skyscrapers; the Woolworth Building (792 ft.); the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (700 ft . ) . †To keep away air, prevent rust. Such paint is an economical product of so-called red lead (minium, Ph.O...