Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...33rd year, he organized his first dance orchestra at the University of North Carolina about 15 years ago. That band would play anywhere for $32.50 an evening. Skinnay Ennis, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams were in that band. It won a college dance-orchestra contest sponsored by a vaudeville circuit, played before the Prince of Wales in England as a prize, and from then on it was "varsity...
According to a dispatch received from Paul "Vermont" Tector '40, of Princeton, who saw Time magazine's reprint of the story on the Harvard Union ice-cream eating record, the title of David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41, as ice-cream champion of the Ivy circuit is contested. For Mitchell, who ate 18 dishes after a full meal and ran a cross country race the next day, yesterday received the following telegram...
...principal second-run New York house, the Embassy News-Reel Theatre, would exhibit the LaGuardia biography before November 2, date of the election. But by week's end, as a result of calls for the picture from their patrons, it appeared that some 50-odd circuit and third-run theatres will be showing the picture in New York during the week preceding the election. It seemed that in marching on, TIME had inadvertently stepped on the Tammany tiger's tail...
...last week most of the top-flight cowboys of the North American rodeo circuit circulated around Broadway movie theatres and bars, wearing at the Garden's special behest the widest hats and brightest shirts they could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total...
...fourth night of the show Steer Rider Walter Cravens, one of the best on the circuit, was thrown and trampled on: died next day of a punctured lung...