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...most baseball enthusiasts a Friday game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies is about the least exciting spectacle that the major leagues can provide. Nonetheless, in Cincinnati last week 20,000 spectators-about 900% more than normal-crowded Crosley Field to examine such a contest. In the crowd were baseball dignitaries like President Ford Frick of the National League, President William Harridge of the American League. Signal for the performance to start was not the umpire's cry of "Play ball!" but another gesture, equally perfunctory but far more impressive-the pushing of a button in Washington...
...novelty, night baseball was first tried at Fort Wayne, Ind. in 1883. In 1909, the first night game ever played on a major-league field took place on the same field as last week's, between Elks from Cincinnati and Newport, Ky. Wrote Reporter Jack Ryder in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "If the attempt is a success it is likely that every ball park in the major leagues will be equipped with lighting apparatus." In 1927, it began to look as if Ryder's premature prophecy might eventually come true, when minor leagues began to experiment seriously with night...
...month for festivals throughout the U.S., the month when Bethlehem, Pa. makes its annual bow to Bach, when Conductor Frederick Stock takes his Chicago Symphony to Cornell College, Iowa, and on to Ann Arbor, Mich., where local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta...
Because the biennial festival is Cincinnati's big social turnout, no one was busier last week than Marion Devereux, the chirping, bright-eyed little spinster who writes the society reams for the Cincinnati Enquirer (TIME, May 8, 1933). Marion Devereux is a dictator in her own small sphere. She tells Cincinnati matrons when to give their parties. As a reporter, she is rarely seen taking notes but no detail escapes her. The Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson...
...changed his plans and he became instead a commanding first lieutenant in the same air squadron with a New Yorker named Fiorello LaGuardia. After the War, what with having four handsome children, the death of his first wife and his marriage to a pretty, high-strung daughter of the Cincinnati tobacco Wilsons, he developed his art career slowly. Last week at the age of 38, he finally got 26 able portraits up on the walls of Manhattan's Grand Central Fifth Avenue Galleries. Critics called the men virile and first-rate, the women decorative, did not mention the portraits...