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While some Californians have resented Herbert Fleishhacker's close friendship with Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., longtime Mayor of San Francisco, the connection enabled Mr. Fleishhacker to be appointed to the Board of Park Commissioners in 1920. He gave Golden Gate Park its famed open-air Fleishhacker Pool and donated a large zoo to the city. Favorite of his beasts there is a lion called "Herb," not for him but his powerfully-built son Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford football hero, formerly an employe of J. P. Morgan & Co. and now with Guaranty Trust. San Franciscans know that...
...Boston, at the present time, a prospective open-air orator must obtain a permit before he can speak. Usually such requests are granted; it is always possible, however, to prevent speeches on undesirable subjects by refusing the necessary authorization. Limitations which have been laid down in this way have served only to drive the agitators to secret meetings, where by posing as martyrs, they have been able to exert a far more dangerous influence than they could by speaking in the open...
...second night it rained, but the third night Governor George White-escorted by the Cleveland Grays-attended. Throughout the week Cleveland was in raptures. Eighteen thousand spectators attended almost every night, the "largest number of spectators ever to view open-air opera...
...Open-air singing has an intangible charm not always accruing only to the singers themselves; the listeners, too, especially if the Muse be well represented by lier mortal enfulators, are pleasantly aware of an inner harmony with Nature, suggested, no doubt, by the vocal efforts of the performers...
Damp or sultry weather may be uncomfortable for audiences at open-air concerts but it is the ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...