Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circle and ends at Herald Square was the private domain of George M. Cohan. He did things his own way. He has never felt at home in The Players Club on quiet Gramercy Square, but when the Friars made him a member he took a troupe of stars on tour, raised the money to build a new club house. The Friars gratefully elected him Abbot. He came to recognize himself as the world's best tap dancer, best songwriter, best playwright. Privately he probably still feels the same way. The Song & Dance Man, produced...
Philadelphians chortled as a chorus hoofer, picked for his amazing likeness to "Davy" (Edward of Wales), was heckled by imperious Helen Broderick as Queen Mary about amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some...
Into the President's office last week strode Mississippi's tall, bald Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, just back from a scouting tour of the South and West. For years Senator Harrison has been a conservative "hard money" Democrat. Yet now he boldly told the President that only by currency inflation could his recovery program be made a success. President Roosevelt listened, smiled, promised nothing. Declared Senator Harrison as he emerged from the White House...
...appreciate the many facilities the Union offers for a multitude of activities and the concomitant social contact which is so important in first-year college life if interpreted in the broadest sense, one has only to make a brief tour of the building. Last year in the Small Dining Room, as distinguished from the Large Dining Room and the Rotunda, the Class of 1936 had its French, German and Latin tables where men could converse during the meals in the particular language in which they were interested. The Large Dining Room was the scene of last year's Freshman entertainment...
...when Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky returned to St. Petersburg to rest after conducting his own moody music during a tour of Europe, he was requested to write something for the Imperial Theatres. With his brother Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed...