Word: touring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty young wife, Doris ("Richest Girl") Duke, who gave $5,000 to re-elect New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore, $50,000 to help re-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week their knock was answered. Governor Moore appointed 25-year-old Mrs. Cromwell, who made a tour of southern resettlement projects last year with Mrs. Roosevelt, to be a member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise the State's 21 penal institutions, hospitals and State homes. In prospect for briskly confident Mr. Cromwell, who told a Congressional committee last...
Chief announced aim of the Franco Tourist Office was to demonstrate that back of the front all is normal in Rightist Spain. Unannounced aim: to get needed foreign exchange for Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping...
Virginia, making a five game tour of New England, has dropped the opener of their trip, losing to Rutgers 8-4 on Saturday. The team is captained by shortstop Dave Tood, a brother of Charles Lee Todd who headed the 1926 Harvard nine...
Save for a brief road tour in 1931-32, a short stand in 1934, oldtime Actress Maude Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) has not made a stage appearance since she retired in 1918. Her only recent connection with the theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce...
...born conductor has ever been conceded a place at the top of his profession ; and few have ever rated a job as chief of even a second-rate U. S. symphony orchestra. A rare exception is the Kansas City Philharmonic's Karl Krueger, who last week completed a tour of Italy as guest maestro with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fuzzy-headed, cigar-puffing Krueger, who during the past four years has put Kansas City, Mo., on the symphonic map, was born in Atchison, Kans...