Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour the Company has required a special train with five baggage cars for scenery, eleven Pullmans for the dancers, stagehands and the 50-odd orchestramen. The train is a world by itself. Baronova is twitted for her marriage and the fact that it caused her to desert her two pet monkeys. Toumanova is teased about one admirer in Austin, Tex., who sends her flowers at every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train...
...title when and if he fights James J. Braddock, the problem of what to do with it afterward is already even more puzzling. To canny Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has exclusive rights to Fisticuffer Louis' services, an inviting solution of this question was presented last week: a grand tour of Europe. For Fisticuffer Louis such an expedition might have notable advantages. If he beats Max Schmeling in June and Braddock later this summer, he will have trouble finding opponents worth fighting. In exhibition bouts he might be a more profitable attraction abroad than at home...
...Manhattan on his annual visit to his homeland, promptly proved that his nickname scarcely did his talents justice. As well as talking Promoter Jacobs, long Rickard's right-hand man, into an admiring daze. Promoter Dickson explained to reporters a few more of his immediate projects: a European tour for one-time Champion Max Baer; a European heavyweight elimination tournament conducted under the auspices of the Paris Soir; a series of indoor bullfights at his Palais des Sports, with matadors from Madrid. From New York Promoter Dickson whizzed off to Canada in search of recruits for the hockey teams...
Georges Martin appeared for several years with beauteous Lucienne Boyer at her Paris night club, did his "ringer dancing" in the U. S. early this year as part of Mile Boyer's second Continental Varieties. Last week's Detroit appearance was his U. S. solo debut. His tour of cinemansions will take him to Chicago and Hollywood...
There followed shortly the two great blows of David Blythe's life. Pretty Julia Keffer died a year after he married her. He painted an enormous panorama of western Pennsylvania landscapes and historical scenes, mounted it on rollers and dreamed of making a fortune by taking it on tour. In its premiere at Uniontown, Pa. the last scene, a realistic canvas of a thunderstorm, so scared the more naive spectators that they refused to leave the theatre until assured that no thunder was crashing outside. But the tour flopped, the panorama was cut up to make theatrical backdrops. Painter...