Word: beach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular member of his band. Fletcher Henderson was the choice. The idea is fine--the selection not awe-inspiring. Fletcher is a great arranger, but, he can't play piano . . . . Saxie Dowell, author of that damn tune about some fish, broke his arm recently at Atlantic Beach. That about evens it up . . . It also seems as if last year's deluge of bad swing has given up the ghost. Future outlook is marred only by the far-off swish of Sammy Kaye...
...least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back to the U. S., three at a time and arranging to reopen their home at Bronxville, N. Y. (The other Kennedy homes, in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port, Mass., are closed...
...British Professional Golfers Association called off this year's Ryder Cup matches (between U. S. and British pros), No. i international event on the golf calendar, scheduled at Florida's Ponte Vedra Beach course in November...
Consumer Goods Stocks: Sears, Roebuck climbed 3%, steady-yield A. T. & T. 4%. Woolworth, with its big British and German subsidiaries likely to be war-slugged dropped 8%. Eastman Kodak dropped 7% apparently because investors connected Kodaks with beach parties, forgot Eastman's chemical and plastics business, forgot that armies use cameras...
Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...