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...taste is sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience...
...around the net, the emphasis of all the practices so far this year has been toward the development of a fast offense which will be able to score more goals than their opponents. The lines will be revamped when Moseley and Ford come on the ice but at present Calloway, Dewey, Hovenanian, and Hallowell are always included in the first call...
Pent-up Africa is uncaged this week at Loew's Orpheum when Cab and the boys set their audiences rocking to the tortured strains of Minnie the Moacher and Zazz Zoo Zazz. Any ardent devotee will be completely satisfied by the Calloway contortions and incoherent mouthings, while favorable attention will be directed toward Ada Ward and her condition of Without That Certain Thing...
...this had nothing to do with Cab Calloway. It meant that the 33-year-old movement, to build a great Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...
...cigarette, the petite Harriet Hilliard, factfully dressed in a blue dress which well showed off her calmy, self controlled face chatted along about her life and contacts in a very amiable manner. "I like really her music, though you might not think so, such as that played by Cab Calloway or any other colored orchestra. All the big orchestra leaders, Ozzie included, like the jazz played by negroes. Such a tune as 'Christmas Night at Harlem' is my idea of a really good piece...