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French Tour (Tues. 6:05 p. m. NBC-Blue), a microphone junket that in the next three months will do Paris from the hotcha Bal Tabarin to the Sorbonne and rest up in the provinces. First brush: with a Paris taxidriver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Only thing that gives the play distinction is Ethel Waters' playing of Hagar. In her first dramatic role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Fred Waring show, in addition to the usual Christmas trip is to be featured this year by the Instrumental Clubs, local dispensers of harmony and hotcha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS MAP OUT BUSY SEASON | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

...kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture proceeds through the high & hackneyed jinks of a machine-made plot. Ethel Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon. Critics suspected that H. P. contained more South American hotcha than it did authentic Indian music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mexican in Manhattan | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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