Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York last week, where they were pitching in exhibition games while waiting to start a vaudeville tour which may bring their post-season earnings to $20,000, Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul ("Daffy") announced that they would demand that their salaries ($7,500 and $3,500 respectively) be raised next year. In Detroit last week the employers who last year bought him for $100,000 from Philadelphia, paid Manager Cochrane a $10,000 bonus...
...personal appearance" tour at which this play takes a look, Carole is accompanied by a cynical "press relations counsel" (Otto Hulette) who has been hired by President Fineberg to keep her out of man trouble. Her imported automobile breaks down near Wilkes-Barre at the home of a rustic family...
...Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace...
...pathetic failure. When Diaghilev died Haskell, like many another balletomaniac, despaired of the ballet's future. But the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe and the development of Choreographer Leonide Massine gave him fresh hope. The Monte Carlo Ballet, now on the verge of a five months' U. S. tour. has four outstanding dancers : handsome David Lichine, spectacular for his leaps, his sensuous grace; pretty feathery Tatiana Riabouchinska, whom Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigr...
...valet was a plump motherly woman who by choice sits in the balcony. She had known Koussevitzky when he wore an ill-fitting Prince Albert, a shaggy mustache, high wing collars. She had stepped out of her class and married him, given him money to form an orchestra, tour the provinces and down the Volga. Exiled from Russia she helped finance him in Western Europe, became his shrewd self-effacing partner in a music-publishing concern which has sponsored the works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Natalya Koussevitzky is rightfully proud of her husband's U. S. achievements...