Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday night the formal dance at Dunster House will initiate the social whirl of the Harvard-Yale weekend. Claude Hopkins and his orchestra will play from 10 to 3 o'clock. Tickets are on sale this week during mealtimes in the Dunster dining room. The size of the dance will be limited to insure adequate dancing facilities...
...most impressive thing about the November number of the Advocate is the wide range of topics all the way from Harvard debating through the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the War at Shanghai, and even to the solution of the whole economic-political problem of our time. The editors may justly be proud of such a breadth of vision in comparison with the narrowness of college literary magazines; and the business board must be pleased by a bill of fare certain to appeal to a wide audience...
...been exhibited at the opening of the Chicago City Opera last fortnight. The ladies were out in force, for this was a ladies' evening. On the stage, pretty Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao (Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera) sang Mozart, Massenet. Verdi in her Chicago debut. The 76-piece orchestra, demurely clad in dark dresses, was all-woman. But it was not quite...
...Chicago Woman's Symphony Orchestra thus opened its twelfth season last week, a lone man led it. Swallow-tailed against a gowny background, Conductor Frank St. Leger, radio director (American Radiator Co.'s Fireside Recitals), put the ladies through their paces. Watching him from an orchestra seat sat the woman who had been the symphony's conductor for eight years, and last week was so no longer -hard-working, blonde Ebba Sundstrom...
Chicago critics have often been polite to the Woman's Symphony but its performing ranks have seethed with jealousy, its feminine management has been beset by cliques. Headed by diamante-bodiced Mrs. Keith, the orchestra board dropped Ebba Sundstrom. Last week Conductor St. Leger, despite his flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle...