Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Georges Clemenceau was the donor of the largest gift, contributing $20,000, the entire proceeds of his lecture tour while in this country. In deciding to make the Association the solo beneficiary he gave this reason for his decision: "In memory of my student years in America I hope you will permit me to contribute the proceeds of my lectures to your fund for sending American boys to France and bringing our students here...
...Democratic Congressional Committee declared: " I approve not of the conditional but of the unconditional adhesion of the United States to the World Court." Meanwhile Mr. Harding is reported to be embarrassed by the early announcement of his candidacy in 1924. He may even abandon his contemplated speaking tour of the country (in which he was expected to advocate the Court), if it appears that he will have to come before the country not as the president of the United States but as a campaigning candidate...
...Singers require in their series of performances of Mozart's charming opera, Cosi Fan Tutte. This is something of an innovation, and one that will gain the sympathy of people whose ears have had experience with bad orchestras. Sometimes during performances of the Wagnerian Festival Company, now on tour in this country, one wished that a skillfully played piano were in operation, rather than an atrocious orchestra. The Society of American Singers is an interesting organization. It is directed and financed by William Wade Hinshaw, a few years ago a splendid basso with the Metropolitan Opera Company. After retiring...
...manifestations of energy." Steinmetz holds the Kantian philosophy, that the noumenal world (of spirit) and the phenomenal world (of matter and energy) are absolutely separate realms of experience. Conan Doyle says that " nothing is as dogmatic as science." He has finished his lectures in New York and will tour the United States showing his "spirit photographs." The "new church" may or may not spring up in his wake, but the old churches will view his progress with interest...
From New York the club will go to Philadelphia to sing on Monday, April 16, and the next day it will be in Buffalo. After a concert in Detroit next Wednesday, the tour will end in Cleveland on April 19. A special rehearsal will be held with the Cleveland orchestra at the Masonic Hall for the "Chant de guerre" by Florent Schmitt...