Word: roden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second half From Vienna did much better. There was fun in a sketch of a refugee learning English in Six Easy Lessons; fun and charm alike in Little Ballerina, where dainty Ilia Roden plays a daydreaming ballet pupil who quits her routine to imitate Mary Wigman, Pavlova, an Aquacade swimmer. And the finale was a potpourri of those gay, nostalgic Viennese tunes to which all the world has waltzed and to which it is impossible to goose-step...
Gathered in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House for a ceremonial banquet to Librarian Roden were the University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott, Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, 250 other citizens. Librarian Roden bashfully received a volume of testimonial letters from 175 of his colleagues throughout the world. Said President Hutchins: "We have met tonight to honor one of the great educators of the Middle West. ... The Chicago Public Library was one of the first to realize its educational as distinguished from its storage functions...
...pride of Chicago's Germans is nourished not only by the statues of Goethe, Schiller and von Humboldt that gleam in the city parks but by their living countrymen prominent in the city's affairs. Chicago last week honored one of these, blue-eyed, baldish Carl Bismarck Roden, for 50 years an employe of the great Chicago Public Library and for 18 years its Chief Librarian...
...Carl Roden was brought from his father's Kansas City grocery to Chicago in the '703, got his first job as a $5-a-week page in the Library in 1886, when it occupied the third floor of the old City Hall. Today, from his marble-walled office in the Library building on the gusty lake front, Librarian Roden watches over 45 branches, serves 12,000,000 readers a year. In 1931 he ran the biggest circulating municipal library in the U. S., with 16,000,000 issues, but with declining appro priations Chicago's has yielded...