Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan the Metropolitan Opera Company rounded off the first week of its season with a novelty, a revival and six debuts...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...Fifth Avenue, not on Park, nor on Otto H. Kahn's 57th St. site, but on Broadway in the shabby brick building that has housed it these 44 years, the Metropolitan Opera Company began last week a new season. The scene was familiar: the line from the box office curling halfway round the block; taxis snarling at one another, limousines haughtily shouldering their way through; crowded lobbies and scalpers asking $50 apiece for seats from last-minute bidders; Thomas J. Bull, silk-hatted, correct, taking tickets at the door he has tended for 37 years; General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza...
...House, Two years ago, Chairman Otto Kahn of the Opera Board, bought a plot on 57th Street, paid, it is said, $3,000,000 for it offered it to the Metropolitan for just what he paid. Last spring the site was seemingly approved: Architects Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban were appointed. The New house was promised for the season 1928-29. But the recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John...
...rest of the Metropolitan's "Greater Entertainment," the divertissement, so to speak, it remains rather hazily in the mind; in fact it succeeded excellently in diverting the attention from what was taking place on the stage. There guesses what...