Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he would not speak more than three times a week, sent a second word-that he would not speak more than once a week. The campaign managers threw up their hands; Chairman Butler of the National Committee rushed west to Chicago to confer with the candidate about a tour on the Pacific Coast. Democratic. John W. Davis roamed westward. In his special train, he reached Chicago from Wheeling, spent four days in the Congress Hotel. He made no public speeches, attended no public gatherings, but did business with his political lieutenants, heard reports about the West. Through Frank...
...financial relationships between the two countries. The personnel includes some of the most impressive figures, some of the most distinguished names known to business. Said Mr. Herr, who has long stared with eagle eye at the Pacific: "This expedition is not a selling proposition nor a sight-seeing tour. It is a mission of good will. The U. S. and Canada have long prospered commercially by reason of their friendship. Why not another marriage between undeveloped resources and American capital? Mexico needs us and we need Mexico." Those going include...
Anna Pavlova, aged 39, Titania of the Imperial Russian school of romantic choregraphy, is soon to embark on a farewell tour of the U. S. This in spite of the fact that her last appearances here were also farewell appearances. This time, however, it is "positively farewell," because Anna, says her manager, S. Hurok, is weary of the discomforts of travel. Consequently, a rather unexacting final circuit has been arranged. It will consist of four weeks at Covent Garden, London; three and one-half weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan; then a "season" in San Francisco; finally a first...
...Celtic (White Star)-The Jubilee Singers (Negro) of Fisk University, Nashville, from a concert tour of England...
Last year the Sistine Choir, sweet singers of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, turned their faces west from the Holy City, traversed the Ocean's watery floor, came to sing their lauds and hallowed canticles in the U. S. The tour, as everyone knows, was financially a success, artistically a triumph. This season the Sistine Choir will again visit the U. S. Among those who will be heard...