Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...called "From Grand Opera to Ragtime." As part of his business in this turn (for which he got $15 a week), Benny sawed away with the little finger of his bow hand elegantly extended, pretended to be mesmerized by its motion back & forth. On the vaudeville circuit around Waukegan this was uproarious, and Benny eventually became something of a local favorite, making $75 a week...
Died. Martin Beck, 71, immigrant dean of vaudeville showmen, who built 65 theatres, brought Sarah Bernhardt to the U. S., ran the old Orpheum circuit for 27 years, retired in 1923 to build and manage his first legitimate theatre, Manhattan's Martin Beck; in Manhattan...
...Britain's determination to knock out Italy was not seen until last week when that taciturn Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel on which Brindisi...
Three years ago, Little Squire won 20 blues on the Eastern horse-show circuit. Last year he climaxed an undefeated season by taking the coveted jumping championship at Madison Square Garden. If he can defend his championship in this year's National, with wispy Elizabeth Hyland riding for young Gibbs, Little Squire will be the toast of the show ring...
Undoubtedly a new football circuit, including Harvard and Yale, will be built out of the wreckage of last night's explosion, but in any new regime, two former members of the Ivy loop will not be tolerated. The outlaws will be Cornell and Pennsylvania...