Word: touring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Hollywood, two dozen movie stars were hard at work last week at a booming cinema sideline: the personal-appearance tour. Braving the clothes-tugging of fans and the baying of autograph hounds, seven- stars had journeyed to London to show themselves at this week's Royal Film Performance. O'nce disdained as a last resort of the screen's has-beens, personal appearances have grown into a multi-million-dollar studio campaign to pep up a sluggish box office. Hollywood has learned that a star in the flesh can fatten a cinemansion's receipts...
Twenty-nine Austrian university students, scheduled to present a concert and folk dance exhibition at Rindge Tech Tuesday, arrived in the United States on the Holland-American liner Veendam early yesterday. The group will visit Harvard as part of a seven-month tour of American colleges...
...Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
...much of its professional standing. The British Council, which would be called on to make up any losses, had bid them godspeed with the air of men watching $50,0000 or more go up in smoke. Cagey Ballet Importer Sol Hurok had cautiously limited the Sadler's Wells tour to four weeks in Manhattan and five on the road, and had set Manhattan ticket prices, except for opening night, at a fainthearted $4.20 top. As it turned out, tickets became almost as hard to come by as an aisle seat for South Pacific ($6 plus scalper...