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...Racket" seems to have come originally from the vaudeville world, where it connoted the form of entertainment in which a performer specialized. "His racket is mammy songs." "She's got a good racket -clog-dancing and trained poodles." From this it entered general circulation to connote any method, especially an easy one, a hackneyed one, or a smart new one with an element of trickery, by which people got along in the world. Its later, criminal adaptation has two shades of meaning: 1) the whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means...
...personnel of the Bureau at the present time consists of several excellent musicians who can furnish either classical or dance music, two ventriloquists, an harmonica player, two men who have entertained extensively with their acts of magic, clog dancers, a student who has visited Alaska in an attempt to scale Mount Fairweather, a young American who holds the world's record for speed in climbing the Matter horn, and Chinese, Hindu, and Russian students who are prepared to lecture on different phases of life in their respective countries. These lectures are illustrated with colored slides...
...American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down a set of stairs, he is certainly the foremost practitioner of that routine. The later or developed Robinson period is probably now at its zenith. No longer does the dancer depend on gyrations for his effect, but on an economical, effortless pedal rattattattoo which is accomplished sometimes...
...chord and tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...
...program for Saturday is as follows: Banjo Club The Woman in the Shoe Brown Specialty Act Clog dancing by E. N. Hunting '33 Vocal Club Winter Song Bullard Rolling Down to Rio German Specialty Act Accordian numbers by Edward Yeomans Jr. '33 Banjo Club Sing You Sinners from "Honey" Football Medley Speciality Singing trio--J. L. Hutter Jr. '33. H. R. Herrmann '33, and John Heard Jr. '33 Vocal Club Battle of Jericho arr. by Bartholomew Talk about Jerusalem arr. by O'Hara Harvard Songs Specialty Act Magician--James DeRoode '33 Gold Coast Orchestra...