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Five years ago William O. Goodman, Chicago lumber magnate, gave the Art Institute a theatre in memory of his son Kenneth, amateur playwright, who died in November 1918. The Goodman Theatre, built below ground level behind the Art Institute to leave the South Parkway lake frontage unobstructed, cost $300,000 and was endowed with $150,000. When Thomas Wood Stevens, then head of Carnegie Institute's drama department, was placed in full command of the enterprise, artistic Chicagoans were delighted, predicted great things for the Goodman Theatre and creative stagecraft in Chicago. Week before last Director Stevens resigned...
Harvard Club of the Rocky Mountains. President: Cass M. Herrington '17, Symes Bldg., Denver. Vice-President: C. F. Emery, Grad. Bus. '15-16, 435 Clermont Parkway, Denver. Vice-President: F. O. Vaille '74, 1401 Franklin St., Denver. Secretary-Treasurer: Theodore S. Hannington '23, 360 Gilpin St., Denver...
...Passed a bill to construct a $33,500,000 George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac River...
...Barlow's plan. First express toll road in the U. S. was the Long Island Motor Parkway (TIME, Sept. 16). Four years ago highway officials of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana began to plan a tri-state motorway, 200 ft. wide, from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME...
Elected. George Wharton Pepper, onetime (1922-27) Senator from Pennsylvania; to head a committee of Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc. in its campaign for $5,000,000 to erect a memorial and science museum on the Parkway, Philadelphia...