«[W]hin ye state anything to thim about th’ fair, they say: ‘D’ye raymimber th’ evening We discover ye to your th’ Halfway?» — Mr. Dooley, Irish bartender, a personality off Finley Peter Dunne’s Day-after-day Reports articles
Shows out of traditional musical or Г¶nemli site any other uplifting entertainments was basically booked to own the fresh new buildings of the Judge off Prize of the Earth’s Columbian Exposition, Neo-Classical structures create around a basin and connected by the footbridges more than streams and you will lagoons. The new Court off Prize is actually having problems contending for the Halfway, but not, and the programs was in fact improperly attended. Theodore Thomas, new fair’s musical director, resigned halfway from exposition, suggesting that to possess «the remainder of the newest Fair musical shall maybe not figure as the an art after all however, feel addressed just on the basis of an amusement.»
Getting their idea to heart, and you will trying lure fairgoers on the Halfway, brand new Judge regarding Prize come featuring John Philip Sousa marches.
