Word: boston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your last week's issue [TIME, Dec. 9] you characterize me as "of the Boston Globe." That would have been true three and a half years ago. I left the Globe in September...
Chicago Blackhawks. A rejuvenated team, full of smart recruits, they have skated circles around most of their opponents to press Boston for leadership in the American group...
...Boston claims the distinction of being the most musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid...
Last week a third fiasco occurred. A newly organized Boston Grand Opera Company (in whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied their makeup, practiced their trills. A thousand patrons arrived. But the Opera House doors remained closed. The performance was canceled, money refunded. Reason: a $15,000 deficit...
...only opera Boston even pretends to support comes from Chicago, for two weeks each year...