Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Ringling who began billing these performers in Chicago last week. It was, instead, a young man who is vexed with John Ringling. It was 32-year-old President Sidney Nicholas Strotz (rhymes with "boats") of Chicago Stadium Corp.-out to beat John Ringling at his own game. Last autumn Mr. Ringling refused to book his Sells-Floto circus at the Chicago Stadium for this spring. Instead he took the older, smaller Chicago Coliseum, for a generation the South Wabash Avenue scene of circus in Chicago before the handsome greystone stadium was built on Madison Street. To teach John Ringling...
Paddy Harmon soon proved himself no showman. In autumn, 1929, after a half-year's operation, the stadium was $300,000 in the red. The directors got Sheldon Clark, vice president of Sinclair Refining Co., to come in as president. Business got no better. Bond interest had to be defaulted. In June 1930, Sidney Strotz asked to be given a crack at the presidency...
...closed the stadium from July till last November. Since then its lights have blazed every night, and into its till has clinked good Chicago coin. The bond interest has been cleared off. Accounts due have come far down from the $120,000 that was owing last July. President Strotz boasts that his business has been better than Madison Square Garden's- and the latter offers no figures in dispute. The Stadium costs about $1,350 daily to operate. But it will seat 24.000 at a pinch and Sidney Strotz has managed to find people who could show...
...upon seeing his diatribe exhibited in the CRIMSON. No doubt he feels that a step has been taken in the wiping out of a pestilence. Yet would I urge, gently, that in the future he rid himself of his surplus emotions, by, let us say, a run around the stadium. Such exercise uses up one's wind. John Morton Barnaby...
...ultimately prove to be the entering wedge for the re-establishment of a complete system between the two institutions. We look forward hopefully to the day when a suitable understanding will be reached to permit the banners of Harvard and Princeton to fly once more over the same stadium...