Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danny Kaye didn't get into show business until he'd been bounced as a soda-jerker for giving his friends free drinks, bounced as an insur ance clerk for making a $40,000 mistake on the books. Then he got a start on the Borscht Circuit in the Catskills, hopped off for Siam and Singapore in a vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious. A wow with them at Manhattan...
Last week was post-war planning week around the U.S. convention circuit. As businessmen met to exchange ideas and forebodings, there was one encouraging overtone to their conversations: they agreed to "some sort of post-war planning" for their own industries. That meant they had at least stopped regarding a post-war collapse as inevitable, begun figuring out how it might be avoided instead...
According to Lyal Clark, Crimson line coach six days a week and football scout on Saturdays, the Tigers have been dogged by bad luck all around the football circuit, and, reinforced by the return of two injured players, they should be all set to give the Crimson a real run for its money. From tackle to tackle Princeton presents a formidable array, and its backfield is the biggest that Harvard will face all year...
Like race horses, opera singers now cover the same circuit every year-the San Francisco opera in October, the Chicago opera in November, Manhattan's Metropolitan from then until March. San Francisco pays the most: $1,500 and up an evening to stars like Soprano Lily Pons, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Tenor Lauritz Melchior. And San Francisco opera gets its money's worth. Productions, rehearsed aplenty, are well staged, freshly lighted, altogether less dusty than the Met's. The San Francisco Symphony plays with gusto...
Over 200 reporters and photographers convened for the war games in Louisiana. A good many of them were veterans of the maneuver circuit, having followed the Armies in preliminary exercises in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana. Some were veterans of the real thing-among them U.P.'s Richard Hottelet, fresh from a German prison, and Leon Kay, who saw the Nazi invasions of the Low Countries and the Balkans; CBS's tall, handsome Eric Sevareid, who arrived from London with a group of British observers...