Word: charlestoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year, critics knew that they were listening for the first time to the voice of Broadway talking in its sleep; they were listening to the hot-lipped, two-timing, razz-m'tazzle moan of the saxophones that chuckle and the whistles that whine in the cabarets of Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, in San Francisco roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came...
...cute things that Sid Chaplin forgot to do in "Charley's Aunt." There are some moments of genuine slap-stick merriment, when Julian's trousers peep from below his skirt and Ann Pennington treats him like a sister. The latter incidently does a near- ly perfect Charleston: one of the two things for which she is noted. But where as Sid Chaplin made an extremely homely and ridiculous woman, Julian Eltinge is far too natural and graceful to be interesting. It is only as a men that he seems ridiculous
PORGY-DuBose Heyward-Doran ($2.00). Straightforward story-telling in a poet's prose is always rich reading. Poet Heyward's province is South Carolina-Negro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy...
...hero is a dashing dog than whom no one in Charleston can fight or love more fiercely. He is in charge of the rebel forces and becomes deeply implicated in a treason plot through his pretty wife's Tory family. In a last act, which is as complicated as a mystery melodrama, the true spy turns up and the British are confounded...
...same way as with their football. They had punch, pep, and knew what was coming next every minute. On football Harvard was satisfies with straight football, and their dancing was the same way. Out in the Stadium, Dartmouth put on trick plays, and here they went in for the Charleston. Yes sir, they put on a snake dance in Cambridge and they also had their snake dance in here...