Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remodeled colonial brick home on Ellis Avenue. In 1922 Ed Kelly, in addition to his job as the Sanitary District's chief engineer, was appointed to the South Park Board, soon became its president. Under him Grant Park and the outer highway system were developed, the Stadium completed, the old Fine Arts building in Jackson Park restored for the Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry. If George Brennan had lived, that shrewd old Democratic boss might well have run his good friend Kelly for an important municipal job. As it was, Engineer Kelly lived well, played golf, enjoyed his friends...
...last month Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer, energetic chairman of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony, seeking an added attraction for the Lewisohn Stadium concerts, telephoned for advice to Hall Johnson, Negro composer and choir master. Cautiously he mentioned the Bahama Negro dancers who appeared in his folk play Rim, Little Chillum! (TIME, March 13). Enthusiastic, Mrs. Guggenheimer suggested that they present a joint program with Tamiris, a wiry New York white girl with a growing reputation for dances based on Negroid themes. As a result, for two nights last week Conductor Hans Lange led the Philharmonic-Symphony through the dusky music...
...Least successful was her own composition, the "Gris-Gris Ceremonial," based on African rites of propagation. Happily it was the only one in which she joined with the Bahamans. Alone, Dancer Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart of "hot" music, considered its presence with the Philharmonic-Symphony incongruous...
...Manhattan the Philharmonic Symphony invited Iturbi to guest-conduct it in a concert in Lewisohn Stadium. Eagerly he agreed, for there is one musician in the world whom he idolizes: Arturo Toscanini. An audience that filled all but the extreme end seats turned out to see what this black-haired, electric little maestro of the piano bench could do with a baton in his hand...
Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...