Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Buckingham Palace, over which the red and yellow royal standard flapped once more, it was announced that for fear of chill Scotch mists* the King-Emperor would not be allowed to go to Balmoral for "the twelfth," the August day that traditionally marks the beginning of the Scotch season, the death of thousands of fast-flying Scotch grouse. King George was promised the summer at Sandringham, his favorite summer home...
...Chicago's summer music season began last month at Ravinia (TIME, July...
...Francisco's season began last fortnight, in San Mateo's cool Woodland Theatre. At eight Sunday concerts, five eminent conductors-Bernardino Molinari, Alfred Hertz, Eugene Goossens, Ernest Bloch, Bruno Walter-will in turn lead the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra...
...Manhattan, the Philharmonic last week began a twelfth season under the patronage of Adolph Lewisohn. Willem van Hoogstraten, winter conductor for Portland, Ore., is, for the eighth successive summer, conductor and cynosure at the nightly concerts in Lewisohn Stadium. Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing in Mittenwald, Bavaria (famed for violins), with his daughter Eleonor, eleven. Eleonor goes to school in Switzerland, prefers sailing on her father's 20-ft. sloop. Last week she went to Chicago to visit her divorced mother, Pianist Elly Ney.* Mr. van Hoogstraten's hobby is sailing; his horror, fishing...
...first concert of the eight-week season, held indoors because of a storm, was a celebration. It was Patron Lewisohn's 80th birthday. Mr. Hoogstraten, sunburned, flanneled, led a shirtsleeved orchestra. During the intermission Mr. Lewisohn fluttered the pages of his customary welcoming speech...