Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while eel-hipped, coffee-skinned Josephine Baker wriggled with abandon through the scenes of Shuffle Along, an obscure young Negress in the chorus named Catherine Yarborough was saving her subway nickels by trudging from the stage door on 63rd Street to her dingy $3.50-a-week room on 137th Street. Few years later, both women migrated from Broadway to Europe, the racy Josephine to gaudy fame in the Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro...
Highlight of the exhibition was a series taken in Manhattan burlesque theatres. Lohse had surreptitiously snapped queens of the famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan...
...years rolled on Mrs. Diamond, a phlegmatic woman with a stupid loose mouth, grew fat. Her husband got to going around with chorus girls, one in particular called Marion Strasmick whose program name was Kiki Roberts. It generally turned out that whereas Diamond was shot in bed with Miss Roberts, it was Mrs. Diamond who nursed him through his convalescence. Mrs. Diamond was not only immensely good-natured. She was a great joker. In their summer home near Acra she rigged up an electric chair. Her husband was against the idea. In December 1931 Diamond was acquitted of the charge...
...pamphlet was a first gun to turn out Tammany in the November election. Papers like the World-Telegram had started their "Tammany Must Go" chorus. But with no serious fusion opposition in sight Tammany never felt less like going in its life. Therefore last week big-bodied bumbling Mayor O'Brien marched into Tammany Hall, got his orders, marched out again confidently to announce: "I am a candidate for re-election." A few days later, when the city's finances were audited, a deficit of $162.000.000 was revealed...
Melody Cruise, RKO's first musical production, is built around Charles Ruggles- an expert comedian but no singer-in the character of a gentle bon vivant with a perpetual case of jitters. He embarks from Manhattan to San Francisco, has his trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs...