Word: jitterbug
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Last week, on the opening night of a nationwide tour, the first part of Artie's experiment worked. A record-breaking crowd, including a good many of the jammy jitterbug type which apparently hides under logs in the daytime, was lured into Boston's huge Symphony Ballroom. The Shaw faithful, plus a few horn-rimmed jazz intellectuals, clustered around the bandstand, stood through it all without moving much but their gum-chewing muscles. Right there, any resemblance to success stopped...
Down with the Green-Blues. One day in 1947, Hattori saw some Japanese couples trying to jitterbug to the slow, sickly sort of green-blues which most Jap jazz-composers were turning out. He decided "to break away from kurai ongaku [dark music]," wrote Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. It hit, and boogie began to beat all over Japan...
...capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
...John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish movie clichés. Johnny Green's score (best songs: Something in the Wind, I'm Happy Go Lucky and Free, The Turntable Song) has a tough time bucking the script. Several competent supporting actors (Donald...
...bille, a confirmed jitterbug, has written an intimatist novel, La Commandante, which sold 10,000 copies in less than three weeks, and an intimatist poem called The Bikini Yodel...