Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joshua Lederberg, one of three American scientists to share the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology, will speak at 4:30 this afternoon on "Genes and Antibodies: Genetic Models of Immunity and Differentiation," in Auditorium D at the Medical School...
Adlai Stevenson, at a labor-organized bean-and-wiener feed ($1 a plate) in Milwaukee Auditorium, said: "The tragedy of the Eisenhower Administration is that its only weapons seem to be platitudes or paratroops. And this seems to be true whether the situation is Little Rock or Lebanon, South America or Quemoy...
...Marguerite, Campanini in the title role, and Franco Novarro as Mephistopheles), regular seat holders howled about obstructed views, and singers complained about the strenuous demands the huge house placed on their voices. But nobody ever complained about the acoustics: Architect Cady had the good sense to face the auditorium with wood and to build an egg-shaped masonry sound chamber beneath the orchestra pit. During its early years, the Met removed the seats, held charity balls and a flower show on the orchestra floor. When Impresario Henry Abbey lost $600,000 in the house's first season, he recouped...
...originator of the drive for contributions to the Drama Center, John Mason Brown '23, agreed that a small theatre would be more practical. However, he warned that the experimental theatre, included along with the large auditorium, "must not be so small as to be useless...
Robert M. Chapman, chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Theatre, also criticized Norton's proposal. "Any auditorium with over 900 seats would not be feasible for the College. A large structure as Norton suggests could not possibly be as flexible as we wish...