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...speed and flash but with taste and drive, listen to Cozy Cole on Callaway's "Ratamacue" (Vocalion) . . . Not swing, but still very funny is the Commodore release of "Private Jives," a parody on Noel Coward's "Private Lives" . . . Word also slips 'round that Vocalion has succumbed to the album craze, turning out a collection of old Fletcher Henderson platters...
From Paris last week came descriptions of the latest French dance craze, known as La Chamberlaine. On the dance floor a lone man with an umbrella on his arm picks out a girl with whom he would like to dance, hooks her partner's arm with the umbrella, and whirls away with the girl, leaving the umbrella on the arm of the victim. The dispossessed dancer then repeats the process. French couples enjoyed the Hitleresque fun of giving the man with the umbrella the runaround, leaving him embarrassed and puzzled...
...Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches a high in good taste for cinemusicomedy by singing the title song without screeching, stamping or keeling up the whites...
That was the beginning of a U. S. figure-skating craze that did an Axel Paulsen jump when the dimpled Norwegian girl joined Hollywood's stars and her twinkle toed maneuvers reached every movie house in the country. This year the skating craze is spinning in a dizzy whirl. Ice-skating rinks have spawned in such hitherto unheard of places as Miami, Houston, Fort Worth...
Latest undergraduate craze appears to be the game of "Jaakko," pronounced the same way as the Varsity track coach's first name, viz, "Yaake...