Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doors, side by side and almost exactly alike, might confuse the unaccustomed visitor at the penthouse of the fashionable Manhattan apartment house at 570 Park avenue. In the early morning of a day last week, they confused the tenant of the penthouse. British-born. 35-year-old H. Gordon Duval, publisher of The Club-Fellow, society weekly, rose early to tend his shrubs. He intended to open the bathroom door. But he opened the elevator door instead. He fell the length of the shaft, 14 stories, to instant death...
...outdoor music has come to have its proper share of attention, from philanthropists, from able musicians, from audiences. For example: In Manhattan, there are two important outdoor organizations. One is the Goldman Band which plays songs and marches, operatic arias and favorite symphonies in Central Park, or on the campus of New York University. These concerts cost nothing to hear. Sponsored by the Guggenheims (Mr. & Mrs. Daniel and Mr. & Mrs. Murray), they are conducted by Edwin Franko Goldman, who, ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens of Manhattan who prefer cigaret smoking...
...Chicago, sponsored by Louis Eckstein, there are the Ravinia Park concerts. When she arrived in Chicago, last week, after traveling 4,000 miles to sing in the premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...
Louis Eckstein is one of those extraordinary men who are able to associate themselves simultaneously and successfully with totally dissimilar enterprises. He publishes the Red Book; its staff regards him solely as an expert upon what the public likes to read. The men who help him with the Ravinia Park scheme never for a moment doubt that this is his principal interest in the world. Ever since 1913, when he started the concerts by engaging the Chicago Symphony for a summer, he has kept the programs of the Ravinia music. Now, when asked about the history of his Ravinia Park...
Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) D. Humanities