Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Luigi Beccali, Italy's Olympic champion at the 1500-metre distance, a group of 50 Italian athletes will display their wares in the Harvard Stadium and compete against leading athletes from all over the country on October...
...American athletes who will furnish competition for Mussolini's men but it is hoped that Bill Bonthron, Princeton's bid for fame, will be an entry in the world record try. With such a feature tentatively scheduled the meet bids fair to attract many track enthusiasts to the Stadium...
...Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts of the West Side Tennis Club where this week 90 players will start in what, until officials see fit to sanction an open, remains the most important U. S. tournament of the year?the Men's National Singles Championship...
...Paris, Léon Bakst was dead, but Michel Fokine was in Manhattan watching another Scheherazade which he had produced on ten days notice. Fokine's Scheherazade was the indoor sensation of Paris in 1910 and the outdoor sensation of New York in 1934. Jammed to capacity, Lewisohn Stadium seated 15,000, gave standing room to 2,000. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd of 10,000 who jostled outside the gates, were unable to get in. Quick to seize the advantages of an un suspected popularity, the Stadium Concerts management announced a return engagement of Fokine...
Prize performer at the Stadium was a onetime Fokine pupil named Albertina Vitak. She danced "Zobeide," the part in Scheherazade originally written for Ida Rubinstein. Rubinstein, never a great dancer, was never able to dance the whole ballet. Olive-skinned Albertina Vitak with smooth ease cringed, skipped, loved, pleaded from the first to the final...