Word: palladium
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...command performance at London's Palladium Music Hall, George V and his Queen clapped enthusiastically when 50-year-old Sophie Tucker, appearing as a "Surprise Item," bellowed: Some of these days...
Troy had a Palladium. Diomedes and Ulysses stole it. We know what happened to Troy. Boston had a Palladium, the Sacred Cod. It is or was a pine codfish, four feet eleven and a half inches long, ten inches thick at its thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag...
...other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly discard such a very Palladium of her caste, and altogether fitting that she felt the proper remorse after the foolish act was committed...
...music hall. Occasion: charity. (His Majesty's liege subject Charles Spencer Chaplin had refused to perform [TIME, May 18], sent a charitable contribution of $1,000 which he contemptuously called "about as much as I earned in my last two years on the English stage.") Place: the Palladium Music Hall, jammed as usual with men and women who like belly-laughs, smoke and beer. Because this was George V's first public appearance since bronchitis last put him to bed (TIME, April 20), the Palladium had wished to take steps; but George V ordered that "no smoking...
...Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...