Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Ford starts soon on a tour of the fifteen provincial universities of France, to lecture at them all and also at the University of Madrid in Spain...
Divorced. Frank Tinney, famed comedian, by an interlocutory decree granting $200 a week alimony and the custody of his son to Edna Davenport Tinney; at Mineola, L. I. Said she: "I may remarry Frank." Meanwhile they plan to tour the country together as a vaudeville team. Uncharitable persons allege that the divorce will create a favorable reaction at the boxoffice...
...favorite grandson, he was expected, while she lay dying, to dine as the Lord Mayor's guest at a great Guildhall banquet, to which over 800 of his father's most distinguished subjects had been invited for the sole purpose of hearing the Prince discourse officially upon his Empire Tour (TIME, Oct. 23 et ante...
...Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert. With it appeared as soloist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, brilliant young Russian pianist, then making his first U.S. tour. Last week the same orchestra, the same soloist were heard again in Manhattan. Because he felt himself a comparative newcomer, Leopold Stokowski handed his stick to Concertmaster Thaddeus Rich who, a better conductor than most concertmasters, led the first number. Then Mr. Gabrilowitsch, a more mature and no less brilliant artist than he was 25 years ago, sonorously assisted in interpreting the rugged, lordly and immortal Tschaikowsky's B-flat Minor Concerto...
...playhouse owes its inception, if not its actual carrying out, to college trained men, many of them trained at Harvard, and several, at least, in the Harvard Dramatic Club. It is at present difficult if not financially impossible, for the so called commercial theatre to take experimental productions on tour. If the country is to see what is new and fresh in the dramatic world, amateur dramatic groups have still very largely to exhibit it, and by exhibiting it to train, slowly, sufficient appreciation to make possible its wider, professional dissemination...