Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sister Ethel Barrymore. John Colt made his debut last year in Scarlet Sister Mary. His sister, wearing blackface, performed in the same play and was this season deluded by the mercenary assurances of George White into joining the cast of his Scandals. This year Ethel Barrymore has been touring the Midwest, to comparatively small advantage. If there was any doubt as to where all Barrymores belong at present, it was dispelled when she announced last week that she intended, when her road tour ends in June, to perform in talking cinema for the first time with both her brothers...
...information of this great world. Under the watchful surveillance of a dean, a nurse and a biological expert, the contingent is exploring the most tempting and interesting parts of New York. "We want the girls to have a good time, "the dean stated; while the president explained that the tour was intended to acquaint the young women with facts. The girls, under the supervision of the biological expert, went to a musical comedy last night; it is now said that they will see a show every evening until their departure. But their favorite occupation is walking the streets of glamorous...
Trick For Trick. Azrah (James Rennie) and the Great La Tour (Henry O'Neill) were rival magicians. To solve a girl's murder, Azrah bets $1,000 that he can make her speak from the beyond, name her slayer. The Great La Tour bets he can not. There follows a great deal of lowering and upping of stage lights. During one dark spell the Great La Tour is killed. During another, on the first night, Critic Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune disappeared. It was all right about the Great La Tour, however, because he turned...
Accompanied by Jerry ("Jerry the Greek") Luvadis, his rubber and body servant, and Leonard Sacks, his smooth spoken Hollywood secretary and business manager, Dempsey left to continue his tour in Louisville, Ky. (where Governor Ruby Laffoon was to give him the rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff), and Dayton, Ohio. Since he started his series of exhibition bouts last August, he has attracted record crowds on most of his appearances, won all his fights except last week's, scored 26 knockouts and earned $200,000, of which he has spent half...
...talked too much. He told the President all about what I was about to tell him about my world tour. Pat and Bernard Shaw are the only two people who can outtalk me. I had the President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government...