Word: pavilions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud of its culture is Cincinnati, "Queen City of the West." Part of its cultural tradition, for 20 summers, has been opera in a pavilion in the Cincinnati Zoo, where shrilling peacocks sometimes compete with the piccolos, roaring lions double in bass. Last Sunday night Bizet's Carmen opened another Zoo season. There are no great Carmens today. One of the most persistent, bouncing Italian Bruna Castagna, gave her usual interpretation of the gypsy who seduces Soldier Don José (Tenor Raoul Jobin, Metropolitan debutant of last season), then gives him what Broadway calls the brusheroo...
...telephone operator at the British Pavilion, Mrs. Marjorie Rosser, reported that early in the week a man had phoned, and in a muffled voice said: "Get everybody out before the box explodes." A careful search for a bomb had been made then. The night after the explosion, Mrs. Rosser's husband, answering the telephone at their home, heard a man's muffled voice say: "I'll kill you." Before the startled Rosser could answer, the line went dead...
That afternoon, William Strachan, an electrician, had stepped into the room which held the ventilating apparatus, on the second floor of the British Pavilion, for a casual inspection, had noticed on the floor a small, buff-colored bag. Remembering that he had seen it there the day before, he bent over it. It was ticking. Detectives William Federer and Fred Morelock were summoned, and Morelock carried the bag through the British Pavilion, through crowds of sightseers, outside, around the Italian Pavilion, to a deserted spot near the Polish Building, where he set it down...
...gift from "the Belgian people" to the Herbert Hoover Library at Stanford University went the $100,000, 35-bell, 6,916-lb. carillon of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair...
Following cabled instructions from their Government exiled in Poitiers, France, officials of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair removed from the reception lobby a white marble bust of King Leopold...