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...cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turbulent Iturbi | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Home-Philadelphians who stay home for the summer swelter. Those who like music go to the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts at Robin Hood Dell to console themselves. There last week 3,000 Philadelphians could almost imagine themselves out of the sticky, uncomfortable city when Mary Binney Montgomery and her troupe danced their own version of George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Miss Montgomery's choreography followed closely Gershwin's sparkling musical account of a tourist "adrift in the City of Light." The American (Harry Teplitz) elbowed his way bewilderedly through raucous vendors and squabbling shopkeepers, was momentarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing Philadelphians | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Jane Pickens, Lucy Monroe, Lucille Manners, the Four Southernaires. Young Donald Dickson of the Metropolitan sang a song from The Vagabond King. Of the $7,000 raised by this concert, part went to Mayor Wilson's Milk Fund, part to the Orchestra's summer concerts at bosky Robin Hood Dell. Two days later, with dark Spanish Jose Iturbi on the podium, the Dell concerts officially began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Bands | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Paul G. Saurwein; Robin Scully; Douglas H. Sears; John K. Shinn, Jr.; William C. Sigerson; Richard F. Story; William N. Swift; Terry D. Thompson; Harold M. Thurston, Jr.; Donald P. Todd; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr.; William P. Tuttle, Jr.; David N. Ulrich; Victor C. Vaughan, 3d.; Walter I. Wardwell; John L. Washburn; Louis B. Wehle, Jr.; B. Sheffield West; Samuel W. White, Jr.; Arthur S. Williams; Richard L. Wing; and Morton G. Wurtele...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

...Harvard teams and a team representing the Boston Rugby Club will clash this afternoon at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field in a Seven-a-side Rugby Round Robin Tournament. As far as it is known this will be the first time that such a type of rugby has been played in this country. The game is very fast and open, with the teams substituting every five minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven-a-Side Rugby Tournament | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

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