Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of New Yorkers who on summer nights go to the Mall in Central Park, to the campus of New York University or to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to listen to Edwin Franko Goldman's band, no tune is more familiar than his march, On the Mall. Well do they know its words, its lively chorus with breaks during which they whistle and sing la-la-la-la. One night last week the Goldman Band launched into On the Mall, but for once not under the baton of white-mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky...
...Grant Park on Chicago's lake front, the Chicago Symphony swung into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow upon the appearance of James C. Petrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians and member of the city park board. Good Fellow Petrillo had arranged for two months of free concerts nightly. Besides performances by the Symphony under Frederick Stock, Eric De Lamarter and Gennaro Papi, he scheduled the Woman's Symphony (Ebba Sundstrom), the Civic Opera Orchestra (Henry Weber) and eight bands...
...Although Cellist-Conductor Hans Kindler has had trouble enough making a go of winter concerts with his four-year-old National Symphony in Washington, he determined to put on a summer season. He persuaded the National Park Service to shoulder one-third of the cost ($35,000). He hurdled union obstacles. From the Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner...
...William Hallock Park, director of New York City's bacteriological laboratory since 1894, is nine months younger than Dr. Simon Flexner (see above). Dr. Park does not want to resign his job. But municipal pension and compulsory retirement systems will force Dr. Park out within two years...
Last week the Roosevelt Memorial Association anticipated that event by promising to give Dr. Park the Roosevelt Medal for 1935 next October because, by introducing diphtheria antitoxin to this country, he reduced diphtheria deaths among New York City children from 295 to three per 100,000; because his laboratory was the first in the world to apply the discoveries of Pasteur and Koch to public health; because for 41 years he managed to keep his laboratory out of the hands of New York City politicians...