Dante show circles the globe

A SUMMARY OF CITIES AND COUNTRIES VISITED BY THE DANTE SHOW

Rome (5 weeks), Moscow (8 weeks), Leningrad (4 weeks), Sydney (20 weeks), Melbourne (26 weeks), Vienna (4 weeks), Buenos Aires (19 weeks), Rio de Janeiro (10 weeks), Madrid (4 weeks), Brussels (2 weeks), The Hague (4 weeks), Stockholm (12 weeks), Copenhagen (16 weeks), Hamburg (4 weeks), Berlin (5 weeks), Montevideo (5 weeks), Shanghai (14 weeks), Tokio (6 weeks), Osaka (3 weeks), Dairen (3 weeks), Mukden (3 weeks), Pekin (3 weeks), Manila (4 weeks).

The principal cities of the United States as well as the Philippine Islands, New Zealand, Tasmania, Honolulu, Malay States, Java, Sumatra, Burma, Trinidad, Barbados, Curacao, Venezuela, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, Porto Rico, Cuba and Canada. The tour in England lasted for three and a half years.

The Dante show had a record of fifty return engagements and twenty­-five prolongations and appeared before at least two reigning kings, two queens and four presidents of republics, and possessed five decorations.

This was all prior to the second World War. After 1946 the show returned to England for another six months. Playing the Garrick Theatre on Leicester Square, in London, for 10 weeks.