Word: stadium
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...painstaking organization which were to give the city its first outdoor opera. It would not be the Metropolitan troupe which Senator Robert Johns Bulkley brings to the city every year through his Northern Ohio Opera Association, but a gigantic al fresco show, home-produced in the month-old Municipal Stadium. Beneficiary of the performance was the Cleveland Press's milk fund. Purpose was to entertain those of the citizenry who like music and those who like spectacles. A further purpose was to illuminate iron-mongering Cleveland's place on the nation's cultural...
Plans were drawn for the largest opera stage ever constructed: 300 ft. by 125 ft. It was built in three tiers out of lumber left over from the Schmeling-Stribling prize fight which baptized the Stadium (TIME, July 13). Associate stage director, who helped design with simple grandeur the sets used on the six nights, was Laurence Higgins, a 25-year-old native son. Directing his work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked...
...Because people absorb sound, four times more amplification was needed when the stadium was full (20,000 capacity) than when it was empty. †The same camels were used last month in Cleveland for the Shriners' Convention...
...York City's Lewisohn Stadium last week went hollow-eyed Willem Van Hoogstraten, having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...
...cause of Mrs. Mitchell's social inactivity became known last week, when on the program of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony concert in the Lewisohn Stadium appeared a Polonaise by Chopin-Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell, long an amateur pianist and student of harmony, had studied orchestration under Composer Rubin Goldmark. Why not show what she could do with the work of Frédéric François Chopin, composer and friend to pretty women and romantic dowagers? Said she: "I didn't let anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties...