Word: jansing
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It has been so many years since ukuleles and hula dancing were introduced to the U. S. that any attempt to revive the Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less...
Padlocks of 1927. Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan, queen-mother of the night clubs, shunted her honkytonk furies into the Shubert Theatre to dispense the usual small attentions with large-scale intimacy. She makes her entrance riding down the aisle on a white Arabian horse. Her locally famed "girlies" rush out...
The scheme consists in informing gullible individuals that they (the gullibles) are descendents of one Anneke Jans Bogardus, wife of the Rev. Everardus Bogardus, who owned the valuable plot some two centuries ago. For a modest fee to cover the expenses of investigating the title, the swindlers hold out to...