National Folk Festival Brings Native Arts to Chicago
A Chicago stage hosts Native Americans from many states for a May 22 28 folk festival at Orchestra Hall. Miss Sarah Gertrude Knott started the national movement with a goal to showcase American folk songs dances and plays gathered from communities and civic groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orchestra Hall
Chicago
Mason and Dizon Line
Sarah Gertrude Knott
University of North Carolina
Dramatic League of
Dallas
Texas
Adult Education Council of Chicago
New Mexico
Southwest
Arthur L. Campa
Albuquerque
A. Lucero White
Santa Fe
New York
Staten Island
Snug Harbor
North Carolina
Frederick Koch
Carolina Playmakers
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Asheville
National Committee
Paul Bunyan
Badger
Iowa
Kentucky
Georgia
Vermont
Maine
Kansas
Alabama
Mississippi
Ohio
Mary Roberts Crowley
Hamilton County
William E. Hutson
The
Society For Preservation of Spirituals
Charleston
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Bowling Column Praises 1937 ABC Event and NYC Bid
Elmer H. Baumgarten writes as guest columnist praising the American Bowling Congress tournament held in Syracuse and the bid to move east. He notes large attendance of 22,000 bowlers and 4,017 teams, the Eastern push, and the economic impact of the convention on New York City. He surveys alley regulation, star players, and broader sports gossip within the bowling world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer H. Baumgarten
Hugh Bradley
New York
Charlie Ebbets
Louisville
New York City
Allegheny Mountains
Buffalo
Syracuse
Eastern Seaboard
East
United States
Canada
American Bowling Congress
The
International
American Association
Joe Louis
California
Santa Anita
Lou Chiozza
Sim
Bourleigh Grimes
Charley Dressen
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Casey Stengel
Tony Cuccinello
Bees
Boston
Chicago
Dick Shikat
Indian Quintana
Sixto Escobar
Bowie
Maryland
Bill Johnston
Coney Island
Johnny Neun
Tiger
Norfolk
Baltimore
Jack Dempsey
Babe Herman
Dodger
Florida
Dodgers
Steve McKeever
Ebbets
Ed McKeever
Pioneers of public knowledge and war photography
A profile traces John Heyl Vincent founder of the Chautauqua movement and Mathew Brady, early war photographer. It covers Vincent’s push for popular education and Brady’s field photography era from the Civil War era, including his mobile darkroom wagon and later financial woes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University
John Heyl Vincent
Alabama
John
Wesleyan Institute
Newark
N. J
Hook River
Ill
Galena
Ulysses S. Grant
Vincent
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School Union
Sunday School Union and Tract Society
New York
Lewis Miller
Chautauqua Lake
N. Y
Chautauqua
Harvard
Yale
Theodore Roosevelt
America
Mathew Brady
New York State
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Brady
Morse
Stend
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Elmo Scott Watson
Vincennes
George Rogers Clark
Illinois
Hamilton
Fort Sackville
Old Northwest
Trafic
Metropolis
Time Fiddler
Chisholm
Joshua
Jericho
Arizona—Cowboys
Romaine Loudermilk
Rimrock
Plains
Casey Jones
Indiana
Cecelia Ray Berry
Land of “Evangeline
Louisiana
Lousiana State University
Lafayette
St. Martinsville
Evangeline
Michigan
Constance Rourke
Grand Rapids
E. C. Beck
Northern State Teachers College
Mt. Pleasant
H.S. Babcock
Alma
Missouri
May Kennedy McCord
Springfield
Mabel Mueller
Rolla
Kansas City
Jack Davie
Merrie Golden Tree
North
Countrie
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
George Korson
Bucknell Universi
Avondale
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Fred J. Colby
Nashville
Jesse Rogers
Fiddler
Old Vincennes
Romaine Loudeermile
Cowboy Singer
Arizona
New York Post
Garden
St. Nicks
Hippodrome
Garden Bowl
Bomar
Charles Bohn
Peter Markey
Marcus Griffin
Harry F. Sinclair
Jobstown
Jimmy Foxx
Cam
Sam Leslie
Giants
Herb Stegman
Los Angeles
Bob O'Farrell
Jack Benny
Carl Hubbell
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