Word: cakewalker
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...maintenant," shouts the announcer triumphantly, "voici Les Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...cello at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, played in various pit orchestras, began getting his first arranging commissions in the early '40s, by 1944 was working on Broadway productions. Although he thinks the trend is toward "classical orchestration," Kay does not necessarily follow the trend. "When I did Cakewalk," he says, "I became an expert on Negro music; with Western Symphony, an expert on cowboy music; and with Stars and Stripes a march-music king. I hate march music...
...show brings back just about everything that ever belonged to the girl who was the toast and tattle of France, whose sexy, banana-girdle routines led the Lost Generation through the rhythms of le jazz hot. There is a showboat Cakewalk, some St. Louis blues, a song of Harlem in hard times and of Negroes in Paris; there is a flash of the old Folies and the new ballets; there is Josephine doing a Gypsy ballet and "The Charleston Forever" in black gold-spangled tights...
...Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments that, in state after state, had turned the contests into down-to-the-wire horse races. The updated issues...
...that "the right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy" (TIME, June 4), lost control of his tongue again. Speaking to some Republican ladies in Salisbury, Md., Pyle gravely assessed the G.O.P.'s outlook for November's elections: "The campaign will be no Cakewalk for our congressional and senatorial candidates, even with our ticket being led by such a popular and great leader, Franklin D. -." Silent for a moment, the ladies shrieked their amusement. Unblinking, Orator Pyle corrected himself: "Forgive me. I mean by Dwight D. Eisenhower...