Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charleston Used to Cherry Bounce...
...trot popular throughout the Southern States in Washington's day. C. E. Henderson '28, the Pudding's leading pianist, has adapted the music of the old country dance to modern stage purpose, and the management has arranged a dance which will give an idea how the bean monde of Charleston amused itself a century and a half...
...Young Person in Pink" is certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best in no very definite way either to acting or to production--for Hyde Park is not the easiest spot for the Copley to orient to its red asbestos curtain--nor is Lady Tonbridge's Charleston arena, nee home. The only thing it really adopts itself to is Mr. Mowbray's smile that was quite satisfying. Yet the best of smiles cannot cure the pain of the last lines. Those remain forever--shouted in the pseudo-alcoholic accents of Miss Ediss--"It's the will...
Would that my boy showed as much initiative in mathematics as your juvenile correspondent, Richard Wilson, of Davenport, Iowa [TIME, Mar. 15, LETTERS]. But I think Richard is comparing oranges with apples. The rate he quotes from Davenport to Charleston, S. C., is the so-called evening rate. The Union (City?), N. J., man who talked 41 minutes to Charleston evidently used the day rates on a person-to- person call. It makes a difference...
...think that the Charleston will continue? I do but with some changes. It has already existed for years; for, when I was but a little girl, the Sailors' Hornpipe was being danced. The modern Charleston is only a version of the hornpipe...