Word: jitterbug
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Liebermann's music was ably written in a palatably underplayed twelve-tone technique, and contained such novelties as a jitterbug scene with boogie-woogie background. Nevertheless, first-nighters felt it was low on drama and without a decisive style of its own. Despite the efforts of Conductor George Szell and the cast, the audience clapped coolly. Success of the evening: Star Christl Goltz, who sang Penelope with the cold but brilliant voice that has made her one of the finest dramatic sopranos on the Continent. Her own feeling about Penelope differed from the majority: "We can be thankful that...
...only two of more than a dozen leading dancers, in Leningrad took leading roles only about four times a month. Many of the ballets for which they had been trained are now banned; Ravel's Bolero is "erotic," Stravinsky's Petrouchka is "decadent." Nora also likes to jitterbug, but when she tried it one night in a Budapest café, she was warned it might get her into trouble as too Western. Another long-frustrated ambition of Nora's: to see a Fred Astaire film. Just ahead should be plenty of chances. Manhattan Impresario Sol Hurok dropped...
...chimpanzee who accidentally mixes an elixir of youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
...Berlin, 9,000 jazz fans crowded into Berlin's Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while...
...gets seriously down to work: three minutes of shadow boxing; six rounds of boxing, two with each of three sparring partners; three minutes with the body bag, and three with the light punching bag. In a final three minutes with the skip rope, Robinson goes into a spring-legged jitterbug routine that would spring the cartilages of most boxers...