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...from a WPA-built barge moored near the Potomac River's edge, while 10,000 Washingtonians sat on benches, sprawled on the grass, lolled in canoes on the river. Hans Kindler's National Symphony had begun its "Sunset Symphonies." Other summer openings followed in quick succession: Manhattan's Stadium concerts, an open-air series by the Philharmonic-Symphony; the Cleveland Orchestra's roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin Hood Dell. Others were still several weeks ahead: the Chicago Symphony...
...orchestras last week tuned up to provide a fanfare of al fresco first nights. The open-air concert season...
Early in the run, we gave a performance in the open-air theater at Pearl Harbor. Throughout the entire show, heavy bombers flew at an altitude of about 75 yards directly over the heads of the audience and landed across the road at Hickam Field. For another performance, the cast had to travel part way by jeep, by motor launch across Pearl Harbor, then a jaunt by miniature railroad, and finally by army trucks. Once arrived . . . we gave the show on a stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy...
...First open-air base hospital in U.S. history since the Civil War is the 2,900-bed unit established last month at Bataan by Colonel Carlton Lakey Vanderboget of Fort Missoula, Mont, and run by Colonel James W. Duckworth of Martinsville. Ind. The story is told in LIFE this week by TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby-how workmen bulldozed a road through miles of jungle while bombers attacked them, how engineers set up light plants, built water chlorinators, even changed the course of a river which ran through one hospital site. Highlights...
...open-air wards of Bataan Hospital lie U.S. and Filipino soldiers, women, children, Japanese prisoners. Nurses sleep under trees, near fox holes, wash their own overalls, bathe in streams. Food is cooked on two old-fashioned wood stoves. All equipment is sterilized, but the thick Bataan dust is everywhere, and assistants must constantly flap fly swatters...