Word: jitterbug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides being good publicity, Tommy Dorsey's article on jitterbugs in this week's "Look" had some very good ideas. Designed to refute Artie Shaw's blasts in the Saturday Evening Post (interesting to note what magazines the offense and defense find refuge in), Dorsey said in effect that Jitterbugs had just as much right to their style of dancing as did the swing musicians to their style of playing; and that anyway, there was nothing wrong with most Jitterbugs; that while rather stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar...
...above this reviewer would like to add a word about jitterbugging in general. A great many people say that it is unsightly. We agree that very often jitterbugs don't look too aesthetic in their dancing. But this is usually because they aren't dancing well--because they are dancing stiffly--and therefore get out of time with dire results to their steps. Good dancing of this type, done well, is as (or more) attractive than a great deal of the ballroom dancing today. If you don't think this is true, watch some good colored dancers when they aren...
...banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props, finally brought down the house in a whirlwind song & dance entitled "Little Miss Muffett." Heady if not flooring, the revue's charm and occasional brilliance recalled the pleasant vintage of its predecessor One For The Money (TIME...
...boyhood friend, insists that Artie Shaw will be back in Hollywood within three weeks to record for Victor, to make a picture, and to marry Miss Betty Grable. He also says that Shaw has "seen the light" while on his Mexican vacation and has "changed" his mind about the jitterbug situation...