Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Miss Hacon is at the Crawford House on Scollay Square where she does two dances; one a fan dance and the other an orchid-dance. She said the idea for the orchids came to her when she was in Chicago one night; she dreamt that she was walking down an avenue completely nude and that fountains on either side sprayed up orchids which fell upon her body, clothing...
Miss Bacon invented the fan dance in 1931 when she was playing in Earl Carroll's show in New York and next year she hopes to do some ballet dancing...
...classical fan was heard to say the other day that he didn't like swing because he liked his music slow and easy." That is a very interesting quote, since the best swing music is played slow and easy. Somehow, and with the aid of Benny Goodman, the general misconception has arisen that music only swings when played loud and fast. That is not true. The things that the good swing musician tries to attain are relaxation and sincerity of expression. The idea of technique is secondary in jazz; that's why a good swing piano man doesn't like...
...tonight at the Montreal Arena and McGill tomorrow night at the same place. Following closely on the heels of two rather hectic Quadrangular League battles, with Dartmouth and Yale respectively, this Canadian trip will complete just about as tough a week's ice workout as the most ardent hockey fan could hope...
Regarding the horse killed in Jesse James which Darryl Zanuck claims in print and letters was an "accident," it is difficult to see how he can thus construe an animal deliberately hurled over a cliff. I am no sentimentalist but as a decided movie fan I and many like me do not relish having an evening spoiled by witnessing scenes in which there is ill treatment of animals, and cross off the list all such pictures when there is advance information...