Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several of the studios in the tower may be turned into additional "intimate" theatres) ; and greatly to the surprise of last week's reporters, there is completely planned but not yet under contract a building for the Metropolitan Opera. In the centre of the development is an open plaza, to north and south are identical 45-story office buildings. Because of the mass of theatrical traffic, it was originally planned that the entire subterrain of the development would be used for parking space. At least one parking plot will be built, but because of ventilation problems and fire hazard...
...main purpose of the cardinal's journey was accomplished at San Antonio: his presiding at the bicentenary celebration of the founding of the city's civil government by some Canary Islanders in 1731. He conducted a pontifical high mass on the Military Plaza behind San Fernando Cathedral. Down amongst the 15,000 worshippers crashed a heavy palm frond but, perhaps miraculously, only six people were slightly injured. Hundreds of the faithful came to kiss the cardinal's ring, receive his blessing...
...Central Plaza of Pan ama City, Senor Harmodio Arias, No. 1 revolutionist and Prime Minister, was sworn in by the Supreme Court as "Pro visional President," pending the arrival of President Alfaro from Washington...
...prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever to be an Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Venezuela...
...Frida Leider have been giving capable performances. But despite expectations the pretentious new house has not proved popular. Beauty is widely conceded to the building. On the northwest edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed old Auditorium. And it contains, apparently, a grave psychological error: In placing the boxes the architect seems to have forgotten that Society is an essential to successful opera. As in cinemansions the boxes are across the back almost...