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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years 1920 to 1929 set new highs for Chautauqua prosperity. Receipts never fell below $100,000, attendance averaged 50.000. By 1932 receipts and attendance had fallen off 40%. Brisk, earnest Dr. Bestor, who has been with Chautauqua since 1905, calls receivership a "breathing spell," has lost none of his faith in the gospel of adult education. Last week he was going ahead with plans for Chautauqua's 1934 season, hoping to finance it with contributions and the sale of $100,000 worth of receivership bonds...
...afraid there is no Conant here ... you cannot enter without an invitation ... How did you spell that again...
...famous American, Stephen Girard, who thought it best to exclude all ecclesiastical activities from the college which he founded in Philadelphia. Although we hardly succeeded in convincing one another, I fully enjoyed the President's way of discussing things, and I still feel myself under the spell of his charm...
...actress (Margalo Gillmore) who is revisited by her deplorable husband, Stanley Vance (Ernest Milton), a homosexual masochist and the most despicable villain who has set foot on the stage since Simon Legree. Returning from a long disappearance, Vance begins to exert his baleful influence over Miss Gillmore, a spell from which she had just recovered. He makes her tie his shoes, hustle for his breakfast, breaks her spirit. Both her brother (kinetic Basil Sydney) and her manager who loves her (William Harrigan) have good reason to kill Vance. But the job is finally done very adroitly in a room...
...father died when he was 16 and he had to leave the music school where he was studying to be a violinist and composing on the side. By himself he learned to play the 'cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later...