Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quartet is composed of I. K. Denissoff, T. F. Kasakoff, N. N. Kedoff, and C. N. Kedoff, all of whom have been either opera stars or conservatory teachers. Their program, which has been enthusiastically received at every city of their present tour, is composed for the most part of Russian songs...
...Harry A. Mackay, mayor of Philadelphia, creature of the beery Republican machine of U. S. Senator-suspect Vare, took some Congressmen for a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard last week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington...
Prior to his high tea at Cliveden, Motor Man Ford sojourned idly in London, delaying his projected tour of the British Isles, but found time to extemporize to the press as follows...
...unwelcome pleasure, therefore, to see an amateur performance which for its success rests not on its amateurishness but rather on its sound theatrical value. The Pudding shows will draw them in regardless of real merit all along the tour and in Cambridge because of their appeal to Harvard followers. They do not need to be hits to have full houses. In view of this, it is gratifying to witness at the hands of this organization a production which can be placed with the best of college theatricals...
When asked what she thought of the scheme proposed by Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Miss Fairfax said she expected to take up the cudgels against him soon by going on a lecture tour in opposition to Companionate Marriage...