Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishop of Canterbury and 350 Officers of the Gold Staff who will act as ushers at the Abbey Ceremony, last week made a tour of 100 toilets in remodeled Westminster Abbey. These have been specially built for the convenience of Britain's aristocracy privileged to remain in the Abbey without a chance of escape for six and one-half hours. A jesting officer of the Gold Staff ordered all the cisterns to be tested together. As a workman obeyed the command, the Archbishop protested: "Tut, tut, that will never do. It's just like...
Additional help to the pro-Leftists came from the pious Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, the white-thatched Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, who reached Valencia last week after a personal tour of the Basque provinces and other Leftist territory in Spain...
...Metropolitan this year visited Hartford, Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia during its regular season. Its three-week tour at the season's end called for twelve performances in Boston, two in Baltimore, eight in Cleveland, winds up this week with a one-night stand in Rochester. Back in Manhattan the Metropolitan prepared for its second "spring season" at popular prices. Pianist Lee Pattison, appointed manager for this series, announced Faust for the opening night, May 3.† He promised Walter Damrosch's new opera, The Man Without a Country, for the second week, expected the series would last...
...Yokohama, famed blind & deaf Helen Adams Keller debarked with her secretary Peggy Thompson amid thunderous cheers to begin a Japanese lecture tour during which she was to be received by Emperor Hirohito. Newspapers greeted her as "the American miracle woman," and she cried to the welcoming crowd in Japanese: "Hail, beautiful Japan! I have received a most wonderful greeting which has strengthened me. I shall bear myself with strength forever." Few minutes later a pickpocket stole her purse containing $60. Next day an anonymous Japanese vindicated his country's honor by leaving $60 at Miss Keller's hotel...
...today an artist of even moderate reputation has half the product of his studio almost continuously on tour at loan exhibitions of dealers and provincial museums. For this he gets nothing except the vague possibility of making a sale, must stand damage and insurance on his own pictures. To force galleries to pay rental fees no matter how small on exhibited pictures became an important issue with a group of artists known as the American Artists' Congress...