Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain had planned a pious milk-&-water declaration against further aggression. But the nations on Adolf Hitler's list of probable victims wanted a hard-&-fast promise of military help. Moreover, The Netherlands and Switzerland, remembering that France had once sworn to defend Czecho-Slovakia and that both France and England had talked about guaranteeing dismembered Czecho-Slovakia's frontiers, let it be known that they are not interested in French and British guarantees at all. Rumania's pistol-point signature to an economic alliance with Germany showed what that country thought of the "Stop Hitler" campaign...
...more audacious than the Federal Theatre version, suffers from tagging at its heels. Further, when the Swing Mikado is willing to let itself go, it becomes a gayer and more abandoned romp. But simply as a show, The Hot Mikado wins hands down. It is gaudy, glittering, foot-wise, fast. It spurns Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy operas for Harlem's Savoy ballroom. It is less profitably compared with the Swing Mikado than with such spirited colored shows as Blackbirds of 1928, Shuffle Along...
...pure laziness, son, pure laziness. I have but one criticism of the dancing "bugs" whom I have seen: they all ought to go up to the Savoy in New York and take a few lessons in real slow, relaxed shagging. Just as most white swing bands play mostly fast, stiff music while calling it swing, so do the jitterbugs dance out of time, pressing the beat so much that they can't same time and watch the crowd shag to easy tempos. They just rock along, everybody taking his time, but it still swings. When Krupa was playing his theater...
...93rd production, now open to the public after a tumultuous reception by graduates last night, the Hasty Pudding has gone Broadway and vanished are the touches of Minsky that labelled past shows as "college." Audiences are going to enjoy "Fair Enough," because it is fast, gay and tuneful but they are not particularly going to want to see it repeated in the future. Art for art's sake is all right, but Edward C. Lilley, the Pudding's professional producer, must learn that in college shows art can go too far for its own good...
Wooderson is a frail-looking London solicitor whom the British fondly call "Leather Legs." Main chance U. S. runners have at his three world records is over the ultra-fast cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, where Cunningham, Ben Eastman and New Zealand's Jack Lovelock all set previous world records...