Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About every two years the flag officers of the Navy complete a tour of duty, are shuffled up and dealt anew to the chief naval commands so that they may gain experience in many posts. Last week Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, announced the first of the changes due this year. Chief among them were...
This year, the twenty-fifth of its existence, the Flonzaley Quartet is making a transcontinental tour of farewell concerts. Last week, they played what was to be, save for a supplementary benefit to be given March 17, their farewell concert in Manhattan. Two of the players will join a new Stradivarius Quartet, (socalled because they all own Stradivarius instruments) in which Wolfe Wolfinsohn is to be violinist, Gerald Felix Warburg, son of Banker Felix M. Warburg, the 'cellist. The remaining two announced no plans. But their work as a unit is done and, last week, their story was reviewed...
...doing it is fully in keeping with a certain democratic spirit of the times, a way that insures Mr. Coolidge reaching a considerable mass of his recent supporters. But there is about it all something that suggests less the literary debut of a former president than the vaudeville tour of a returned channel swimmer...
...return concert will be given by the two clubs at Smith College, Northampton on May 4, soon after the Harvard Glee Club comes back from its annual Spring Tour...
...Langdon said he was on his present vaudeville tour mainly for the purpose of getting his voice in shape for the talkies. He is to make his first talking picture in the Spring. "The talking pictures are a howling success," he said. "In the end, the success or failure of a movie is judged by the box office returns it brings, and in this respect the talkies have surely made good. The talkies are now just in their infancy. If one compares the automobile of 20 years ago to the present model and then judges the talkies by the same...