"Minto Follies" displays of figure skating by Ottawa's Minto Skating Club, and in later years, performances of the Ice Follies. Sonja Henie and her show both in her amateur and professional days performed at the Auditorium. The Auditorium hosted the 1923, 1931 and 1947 North American Figure Skating Championships. Other sports In boxing: Jim Corbett, Jack Sharkey, Max Baer, Joe Louis, Joe Walcott and Rocky Marciano appeared in exhibitions at the Auditorium. In basketball: Harlem Globetrotters played annual games And: wrestling indoor track meets indoor tennis matches, including Bill Tilden, Don Budge, Pancho Gonzales, Pancho Segura and Bobby Riggs. Non-sports use It was also the site of many of the city's major events and concerts. Among the performers known to have performed there: Boston Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gracie Fields John McCormack Moscow Circus Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Ezio Pinza Lily Pons Elvis Presley Red Army Chorus The Rolling Stones Frank Sinatra John Philip Sousa Bob Dylan Notable concerts Ottawa radio station CFRA's first broadcast was from the auditorium on May 3, 1947, with a concert by Percy Faith and his 40 piece Orchestra, and a 60-voice choir to an audience of more than 10,000 people. Ottawa Mayor J. E. Stanley Lewis proclaimed the station "officially on the air". On April 3, 1957 Elvis Presley performed two shows. Along with a pair of performances in Toronto the previous day, this marked the first time he performed outside the U.S. More than 200 members of Parliament failed to turn up for an evening session in the House of Commons that day: most went to see Elvis instead. On April 24, 1965, The Rolling Stones performed one show at the Auditorium, by then owned by the YM-YWCA, attended by "3,400 screaming teenagers." The band did not perform again in Ottawa until 40 years later on August 28, 2005, at Frank Clair Stadium. The Auditorium was also the site of dance performances. On April 23, 1924, actress Louise Brooks appeared as one of the dancers of the Denishawn Dance Company at the Auditorium. Other rock stars who appeared at the Auditorium included Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Brenda Lee, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers and Paul Anka. Other The Auditorium was also the site of political conventions and election campaign rallies. The Auditorium contained a shop run by Hermes A. Proulx who hand-made hockey sticks to order. The sticks would be used