Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the doorman of Dublin's Abbey Theatre is a product of the Irish Renaissance. He can and usually does recommend which copies of the Theatre's extensive repertoire you should buy from him to take home and read. On their second U. S. tour since 1914, which opened in Manhattan last week, the Abbey Theatre's Irish Players were not accompanied by their knowing doorman...
...their U. S. tour last year the Irish Players, subsidized by the Free State, did not play Manhattan, confined themselves to the outlands where they performed before fraternal organizations, colleges, culture societies, once in a Masonic temple, once in a dining room. The players, none of whom has been with the organization less than five years, some of whom have been with it 25, took their trouping humorously, although most of them had never trouped farther away from home than Belfast or London before. This year the tour is to be made strictly "on the plush." Towns to be visited...
...Albany and Hyde Park last week Governor Roosevelt wrote and read, read and wrote in preparation for his second campaign tour. About the Democratic presidential nominee clustered college professors, researchers, political advisers, economists, financial experts supplying him with material for speeches on an eight day swing through 15 states. Some of his friends thought he was making a tactical error to roam through territory much of which already appeared to be his. The Roosevelt itinerary...
...Chicago to help settle his late wife's estate (daughter of the late Marshall Field, she left him and their two sons $1,000,000 each). Admiral David Beatty, Earl Beatty called at police headquarters seeking"excitement" Taken on a radio patrol car tour of the tough South Side, he heard the report of a shooting, arrived on the scene too late for action...
...play has few pretensions to distinction. A tempestuous and ardent German danseuse (Miss Ulric) is joined on her U. S. tour by a young Philadelphia millionaire who hides his identity from her, agrees not to make love to her if she will take him on as her piano player. Attired for the most part in revealing negligees, Miss Ulric at one moment tries to seduce him with the familiar Ulric twistings and oglings, at the next moment wards him off with her rasping voice. The struggle ends in a Rocky Mountain blizzard which has marooned the dancer's private...