Word: dunham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance also raised temperatures at the Holland Music Festival, where Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham & company last week presented her torrid Caribbean Rhapsody. The Dutch had never seen anything quite like her. Dancer Dunham did not wear a pearl in her navel (as she did in Tropical Revue), but some of the audience were nevertheless overcome by all the pelvic commotion, hesitated in bewilderment before applauding. Most of the audience, however, got the idea: they were seeing precise dancing and brilliant choreography. The Dutch critics were two-minded about her. Wrote one: "Mostly it is sheer vitality, but sometimes sheer corn...
...weeks that followed, Preview steadied down into a sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that...
Among those musically present were Hoagy Dunham on Piano, Dave Sutherland and his guitar. Walt Gifford with a set of drumsticks, Bruce Elwell on the trumpet, Oliver Taylor on the clarinet, Herb Levin on bass, and Larry Eanet, a formidable man on both trombone and piano...
...group is composed of Larry Eanet '52, trombone; Hoagy Dunham '52, bass; Dave Sutherland '50, guitar; Walt Gifford '52, drums; Bruce Elwell, Milton Academy, trumpet; Oliver Taylor, Belmont Hills School, clarinet; and Barbara Leacock, Wellesley, vocalist...
Working Arrangement. In Los Angeles, a judge granted Mrs. Elaine Dunham a divorce on condition that she continue to feed her farmer-husband during the beet season...