Word: metropolitan
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Last week's concert, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, called for little critical comment. It was a ceremonial affair. Glazounov, like most great composers, is an indifferent conductor. He had only a scratch orchestra at his command. Yet a great audience gathered to pay tribute, arose when he appeared, applauded continually. Similarly was he honored fortnight ago in Detroit. He will appear also in Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked...
...Metropolitan--"The Marriage Play-ground", with Mary Brian...
...born in Beirut, Syria, in 1872, received his degree from Ohio Weslyan University in 1892 and was graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in 1895. The following year he was granted a degree of Ph.D. by Columbia University and became Curator of the Department of Antiquities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He taught at the Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University. He is best known...
...24?Princeton Triangle Club's show, The Golden Dog at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...