Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who expressed these sentiments when he revived the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, had been in Los Angeles last week he would have seen them inscribed in huge letters on the inner wall of the main gateway of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium. He would have seen also a crowd of 105,000 flowing in orderly fashion into a stadium which contained 30 miles of seats and cost $1,700,000. A lover of the grandiloquent, the ceremonious. Baron de Coubertin would have been charmed by the gay, prodigious pageant of band-music, homing-pigeons, hymns...
Just before the first match in the Davis Cup finals between Germany and the U. S., a clumsy waiter delighted the crowd in Roland Garros Stadium. Paris, last week. He fell over some chairs in the grandstand, noisily spilled a tray of orangeade. The crowd, largely composed of Parisian Germans and Parisian Frenchmen who wanted Germany to win because it might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...
...concertgoers have seen many "Duncan Dancers." New to the Lewisohn Stadium was the group which performed last week: large-legged Irma Duncan and her Isadora Duncan dancers, known simply as Ruth, Sima, Julia, Hortense, Minna and Raya. For them a stage was built in the Stadium, a lattice set up to conceal the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Barefoot, clad in flowing Greek garments, they performed Tchaikovsky's "Pathetic" Symphony, two Slavonic Dances of Dvorak, the rollicking Dance of the Apprentices from Wagner's Die Meister singer. Then Irma Duncan, most active exponent of Isadora's tradition. danced...
...repute after years of twitting for its fat women in Greek robes and coy postures; if it is being hard pressed by such modernist schools as that of Mary Wigman, it is at least more alive than it was before the great Isadora began to teach. Last week's Stadium audience seemed aware of this when it gave its greatest applause not to the elaborate group dances but to the simple little one which Irma Duncan had got from her foster mother...