Word: royden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience, among the mink-coated sponsors, there were still some stormy echoes. President Mrs. Royden Keith, who had got Solomon his job, had resigned ("like a bolt from the blue," cooed her co-directors. "Perhaps she felt that the Board was not in sympathy with her policies"). So ex-President Keith had to sit downstairs in an ordinary orchestra seat, while platinum-blonde Acting-President Mrs. James George Shakman (whose Pabst Brewery money helps feed the orchestra's kitty) basked in a box. Beamed she: "We are all working in perfect harmony. . . . The girls are such fine musicians, they...
...bitings, hair pullings. Socialite sponsors quarreled with each other; the women musicians quarreled with Conductress Sundstrom. Several times it looked as if the show could not go on. In 1937, with a deficit of $3,500 on their hands, the orchestra's board of directors elected socialite Mrs. Royden J. Keith president. Mrs. Keith forthwith fired Conductress Sundstrom...
...Sunday, Dean Noe sat in a pew in the Cathedral whose pulpit he had occupied for 17 years, while a sermon criticizing such "vagaries" as his 22-day fast was preached by Rev. Royden Keith Yerkes of the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.). That night the Dean collapsed, was taken to a hospital where Memphis specialists, who had been waiting a week for such an emergency, attempted to save his life with forced feeding...
...Completely surrounded by congratulations in the foyer" (so reported Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner), "Mrs. Royden Keith, in black velvet trimmed with a diamante bodice, received all the between-the-acts applause with such modesty as the president of the Orchestral Association should assume." In the boxes of the Auditorium Theatre sat other Chicago socialite ladies, flashing even more ermine and jewels than had been exhibited at the opening of the Chicago City Opera last fortnight. The ladies were out in force, for this was a ladies' evening. On the stage, pretty Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao (Manhattan...
...Maude Royden gave up her Guildhouse pulpit for good last month, planning to devote all her time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...