Word: touring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he is not on tour Rachmaninoff lives in seclusion, spends his winters in his Manhattan apartment, his summers on his Swiss estate. Once a year he gives Manhattanites a single Carnegie Hall recital from which thousands are invariably turned away. He has never played over the radio...
Author of a Communist tract called The Coming Struggle for Power, baldish, fattish, 37-year-old British Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey says he is no Communist. Having barely escaped deportation proceedings during a U.S. lecture tour in 1935, young Mr. Strachey this year set out on another with the proofs of a new book, Hope in America, under his arm. Last week he sat cooling his heels, along with a Hungarian pianist and two Montenegrin stowaways, in the flag-draped detention room at Ellis Island...
...story of a gawky young girl who marries an attractive man 20 years her elder, becoming the mistress of a great English country house and a victim of the tragedy that overhangs it. A sense of doom built up in the first few pages strikes a reader as a tour de force, brilliant but false. As the story unfolds, the sense of doom is gradually justified...
...Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes, ran for 517 performances on Broadway in 1935-37, last season went on tour. Reopening last week in Manhattan for a limited run, it once more drew excited full-length reviews from the critics, who hailed it as "one of the classics of the American theatre," saluted Actress Hayes as "the queen of acting...
...Milan, Italy, the Sultan of Sumatra made a tour of haberdashers' shops, bought 700 neckties to take home to friends...