Word: honkytonks
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...picture allows its top-notch cast to dress up in quaint period costumes and poke fun at turn-of-the-century manners. The tortuous plot winds the two pretty sisters (June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson) through such varied backgrounds as a stiff-bosomed New England drawing room, a Bowery honkytonk, an imitation Metropolitan Opera Co. stage in full cry. In spite of its singing, dancing, frenzied movement and fancy dress, Two Sisters adds up to not much more than a series of unrelated, tolerably pleasant specialty acts by a troupe of gifted performers...
...half-hour film, Humphrey Jennings (The Silent Village, Listen to Britain-TIME, Sept. 13) tells the story of the British "capture" of this German song. He forecasts its future in a long gliding panoramic shot of London's postwar dockside market streets, where a honkytonk version creates an obbligato for a children's merry-go-round. There are adroitly timed stock-shots (best: the men of the supremely confident Afrika Korps riding through the ecstatic farewells of civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement...
...money ended Jimmie's school days-he started playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...
...connection with music. Then revolution blasted eastern Europe. Rodzinski went to the Ukraine as an Austrian agent in charge of food imports. Returning stability found him back in Lwow, as a price fixer on eggs, meat and vegetables. In the evenings he played the piano in a honkytonk...
...Todd quit the world's biggest theater-restaurant, seating 3,700 (TIME, Jan. 6), it was closed by the Chicago police. Reported reason: it had fallen into the hands of Chicago's Nitti gang, who were converting it from a family-style resort into a vast honkytonk...