Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Hudson's orchestra will play for the Lowell House Kindergarten Prom this Thursday with Frances Colwell as vocalist. Dancing will be from ten o'clock to three and a midnight supper will be served. Costume is preferred...
Born in 1879, son °of a wealthy British pill manufacturer (Beecham's Pills: "Worth a Guinea a Box"), hearty Sir Thomas got an early start waving a baton over orchestras and operatic casts. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra (now the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra), and in the next three years doggedly conducted a series of Queen's Hall concerts despite discouragingly small public response. In 1911 he was instrumental in bringing the Imperial Russian Ballet to London, two years later combined it with a season of Russian opera. Many English composers...
...year -was born poor, never went to high school, started his ushering career as a sideline to being a helper on a department store truck. He found ushering generally inefficient, characterized by stupid or unpleasant workers who made their living on tips for showing balcony patrons to orchestra seats. From Paddy Harmon, manager of the Chicago Stadium, Andy got his first big job; was soon so successful that Chicago hoodlums demanded a cut. He beat up their emissary. Four mobsters then tried to shoot him, but he and two of his brothers gave all four a beating. Usher Frain...
...Puritans will celebrate the memory of Divisionals and the advent of the summer tuxedo on Friday, May 20, when they will lot loose pent-up emotions to the music of Ray Keating and tis orchestra...
...first meeting of the committee, attended by one student and one faculty member from each House, no definite decisions were reached. There was, however, a general concensus of opinion that orchestra prices should be limited to the neighborhood of 400 dollars, and that choice dates be evenly distributed; the advisability of admitting only House members and their guests was also discussed...