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MAIN ARENA
12,000 seating capacity

MUSIC HALL

2,572 seating capacity
LITTLE THEATRE

600 seating capacity
EXHIBITION HALL

120,000 square feet

COMMITTEE ROOMS (93)
seating capacities 25 to 500

ADVISORY BOARD
FRED G. BUFFE ~
hairman

JOHN C.°GROVER
Vice-Chairman

H. E. BONING, JR.
Secretary

BARNEY L. ALLIS
HARRY M. GAMBREL
R. CROSBY KEMPER
FRED M, LEE
DORMAN H. O’LEARY
HARRY H. WELSH, JR.

 

MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM

KANSAS CITY, MIssOuURr!

LOUIS G. LOWER, Director
C. B. HOFF, Ass’t Director

January 20,1943.

Dr.Forrest C.Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear "Phog":

Several weeks ago you advised me it would be necessary for

K.U. to play the Great Lakes Basketball team as the first game on the
night of January 30th in order to permit the Great Lakes team to catch

a train by ll:p.m. for Chicago. I am quite sure that this arrangement
would result in a considerable loss at the Box Office since this game
will be the feature game that evening and our basketball fans are in

the habit of os here to see about half of the first game and all

of the last game. ince gas rationing many of our fans are still attend-
ing the games, but they use a somewhat slower mode of transportation.

I have called the Santa Fe office and have learned from them
that the train that is scheduled to leave at ll:o.m. but has not left
Kansas City during the past two weeks earlier than midnight and in some
cases 1:A.M, Certainly, it is unlikely that railroad schedules will be
improved; as a matter of fact, they are getting worse due to the increasing
number of people that they are asked to handle and a volume of baggage.

The second game of this double header can be finished by 10:45
at the latest ana if we have cebs ready to take the Great Lakes Team
to the station they should be able to make it in plenty of time to catch
their train, Would you feel like passing this information on to the
Great Lakes coach with the suggestion that the games be reversed on the

evening of January sOth,

inéerely yours,

 
  

Louis G, Lower,
Director,

LGL:EH