Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marjorie Lawrence, blonde operatic soprano stricken by infantile paralysis four years ago, arrived by plane in Germany after a swing through the Pacific, set out for a singing tour of British camps, still confined to her wheel chair...
...some weeks Harry Truman would be busy at the Big Three meeting and a subsequent tour of Europe (see below). The Big Three might clear up some points of policy toward Japan. But primarily it was a U.S. problem. A statement of aims beyond "Kill Japs-unconditional surender" was awaited by Americans from Berlin to Okinawa...
Last week in Montreal, Leonide Massine's new ballet company began a summer road tour that gave every evidence of becoming a moneymaker. The audience of 10,000 packed Molson Stadium - at a nice profit, too - and vigorously applauded Massine's Ballet Russe Highlights...
...goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well-potted palms...
...lightest and brightest moments You Came Along follows with gusto the happy shenanigans of three heroic and irresponsible Army pilots (Robert Cummings, Don DeFore, Charles Drake) assigned to tour the U.S. on a bond-selling mission. They are under the supervision of Treasury Agent I. V. Hotchkiss. When I. V. turns out to be Ivy, a svelte, dazzling gilthead (Lizabeth Scott), all the necessary ingredients are in the shaker. If only the bitters had been left out, the result would be a refreshing hot-weather mixture of laughter and lighthearted love...