Word: foxtrotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edmond A. Levy '51, director of the play, has discovered that his star's dance repertoire is limited to the foxtrot and the waltz. Kathi Osterman, Vassar '53, shown above with Rettenberg, says his dancing, "if not light," is "certainly fantastic...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
Stravinsky reduced Firebird's rondo to a simple foxtrot, and brought it back. Levy had his boys write 35 versions of the lyrics before he finally settled on one written by John (Heartaches') Klenner. He named it Summer Moon. Stravinsky changed only one word. Copies went out to what Levy calls "the guys with the big pipes"-Melchior, Nelson Eddy. Said Levy: "When guys like Sinatra and Crosby hear them singing it, they'll want to do it quick. Create a demand, that's what you do. But control the demand too. You gotta...
...Queen's ostrich feathers. South African couturiers expected both to set a new style. (Since South Africa is a leading producer of ostrich feathers, this feature of the Queen's costume attracted special attention.) At a Civic Ball in the town, Princess Elizabeth danced the Princess Foxtrot (composed in her honor) with Cape Town's Mayor Abe Bloomberg. On the following day the entire family watched a stately quadrille at a huge ball given by the "colored community" in the City Hall. For once royal fashions played second fiddle to a dazzling array of East Indian...
Victor Records, remembering how Chopin sales boomed after A Song to Remember came out, released four Concerto versions at once, ranging from a "definitive" one by Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony to a syrupy foxtrot by Freddy Martin, who also has Tchaikovsky's blood on his hands...