Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commencement season nearly spent, U. S. colleges and universities last week gave honorary degrees to, among many others, these...
...summer capital of U. S. opera, rustic Ravinia Park just north of Chicago, opened for business last week. The Ravinia season lasts ten and one-half weeks, until Labor Day. Conductors this year will be Louis Hasselmans, Gennaro Papi, Eric DeLamarter. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be in the pit for every performance. Onetime Actor Edwin Strawbridge will head the ballet...
...Elisabeth Rethberg must grow flowers and swim twice a day. Her house and garden are in Winnetka, near the lake shore. Mme. Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli will play again La Compana Sommersa (Respighi), which had its Metropolitan premiere last season...
...during almost every other major English sporting event this season, it rained last week during the British Amateur Golf Championship in Sandwich. The weather made antic the play of visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...
...social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance to U. S. artists, composers and opera was discussed and urged. Able musicians and organizations entertained the delegates. A purely philanthropic organization, the National Federation of Music Clubs aims to make the U. S. musical through the media of its units. Last season its clubs held more than 35,000 meetings, sponsored more than 7,000 concerts...