Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harkness, through whose generosity it is possible for the Harvard House Plan to become a reality, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and was graduated from Yale in 1897. Besides being a director of many railroads, he is trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Publishing Library, and the Union Theological Seminary...
...Hart Fisher, son of Taft-time Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan. Last year she made an eight-months' tour of the Orient. Last week in Manhattan she gave a recital with her own ensemble...
There were important happenings last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...
...well-directed and intelligently acted talking picture is on view at the Metropolitan this week. It has a fairly sound plot and has several new ideas in the way of sound recording. There are no basic faults in "Evidence...