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Record tours in the concert business are the ones made by the most successful newcomers of the season before. True to form, the Singing Boys of Vienna have 90 dates this year; Shankar, the Hindu dancer, 85 (TIME, Oct. 30). Record crowds have gone to hear Lawrence Tibbett who fortnight ago was photographed for the first time with his new son*. Tibbett has been kept singing encores for an hour after his concerts were supposedly over. Stage-struck girls have blocked his dressing-room clamouring for autographs. In Seattle and Washington, D. C. he drew the biggest audiences those cities...
...Eastern cities, perhaps to Chicago. If press notices are good, if the artist earns enough to pay expenses, he is considered a success. A long cross-country tour is scheduled for the next year. Last winter the new foreign dancer who impressed New York most was Uday Shankar, who in an aloof, compelling way proved that ancient Hindu dances can be made into exciting theatre (TIME, Jan. 9). In ten weeks he grossed $160,000-enough to pay traveling expenses for himself and a troupe of 13 from Calcutta and back, enough to pay for a theatre, for extensive advertising...
Last week Hindu Shankar was back in New York dancing with every one of his slippery muscles. Again he had with him Simkie. a Frenchwoman almost as sinuous as himself, and nine Hindu musicians who sit tailor-fashion on the floor, tap swiftly and intricately on odd-shaped drums, thrum delicately on queer little fat-necked Hindu guitars. This week Shankar starts out on a tour which will take him to New England, then through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast, back through the South. In all he will give 85 performances, this season's record number...
...When Hindus want music they summon someone who can play one of India's many kinds of guitar or one of India's many drums. When Hindus want to see their native dances done in the most authentic, polished fashion they seek out the Hindu Dancer Uday Shankar, protege of the late Maharaja of Jhalawar. who studied at the London Royal College of Arts, forsook painting to dance with the late Anna Pavlowa. forsook Pavlowa to research the old dances and music of Hindustan...
Because Uday Shankar was in Manhattan with his Hindu troupe for the first time last week, a great deal of reverent bowing was done there, a great deal of weird-sounding thrumming and drum-spanking. The curtain went up on Shankar's eight brightly-turbaned musicians, sitting cross-legged on the floor of the stage, 56 different instruments within reach. Drums shaped like picturesque vases, stringed instruments with necks almost as fat as their queer little bodies, gongs as bright as gold-pieces and serpentine horns made the music for Shankar to dance to. It was delicate, highly refined...