Word: foxtrotting
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...Jones (Hal Kemp; Victor). Harold Rome's rousing barn dance tune from the new Sing Out The News (see p. 30). Foxtrot-of-the-month...
...most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that a soulful modern tango made a greater impression than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which he gradually withdrew, adroitly transferring the ape's gaze to his own intently...
...sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with a sailor chorus; 3) another foxtrot, with Miss Rogers in a crosstime routine; 4) a final ballroom number with her. For those who are tired of the hoofing of this Hollywood team, it is all just more of the same...
Towering several inches above him, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam danced with Edward of Wales at the Derby Ball in Grosvenor House, London. After playing "Home" and "Day by Day," the orchestra burst into "Tiger Rag," a fast foxtrot, then stopped. Leaving the floor H. R. H. was heard to grumble: "We need more like that." Obediently the orchestra struck up again "Tiger Rag" and H. R. H. speedily led Mrs. Putnam back to the floor for another dance. When finally an announcer asked that the guests leave the ballroom for supper, H. R. H. remarked to his partner: "That...
Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...