Word: toured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third concert the audience caught fire. Women crowded to the stage to shower him with bouquets. The box office grossed $3,000. When it was over, Paderewski found himself the lion of Manhattan. His success was repeated in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia. His first U. S. tour netted...
...Pianist Paderewski travels in style. But on tour he does worse than live on the wrong side of the tracks : he invariably inhabits freight yards. His private car is outfitted with all the comforts of home, with a library and a piano to practice...
...piano for four years. Rumors spread that the great Paderewski had forgotten how to play. But in 1922, his red-gold hair now silver, Paderewski staged a comeback, proved that he was still the only living virtuoso who could gross half a million dollars on a U. S. concert tour...
When in 1933 aged Trouper Paderewski walked stiffly up to a piano in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to play the last concert of his 19th U. S. tour, most of the throng of 20,000 believed they were hearing him for the last time...
After its Cambridge opening, "Fair Enough" will tour the Eastern Sea-board, playing in Hartford, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Hot Springs, Virginia...