Word: touring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still wearing (contrary to Berlin reports) the special soldier suit he had sworn on Sept. 1 to clothe himself in "until victory or death," Adolf Hitler rose one night last week before his rubber-stamp Reichstag. He had just returned from a one-day tour of his latest prize of war, the ruined city of Warsaw (see p. 45). He was now about to launch his well-heralded peace offensive...
...last week most of the first-magnitude folk in radio's great free-show firmament were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like...
Though he fiddles away most of his time on tour, world-famous Violinist Holger (Leslie Howard) is just a homebody at heart until he meets Anita (Ingrid Bergman), who is giving piano lessons to Holger's eight-year-old daughter (Ann Todd). Holger hears Anita play, falls in love with her. When he goes on tour again, Anita accompanies him, not only on the piano. But when Holger begins to long for home and daughter, Anita, realizing what the score is, runs off to Paris to study. As his daughter dashes across the street to greet homing Holger...
...Annie J. Cannon, the University's famous woman astronomer, will be speaker at the opening general meeting tonight at the Observatory at 8:15 o'clock. She will discuss her recent tour of the observatories of the western United States...
...Stradivarius group has spent the last four years making a tour of many American universities both in this part of the country and in the west, and has built up a large following both in the United States and Europe...