Word: jitterbug
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Antiquarian Jitterbug...
Dunster House will feature Jack Teagarden, trombone jitterbug, and his orchestra at the Funsters' winter formal dance tomorrow evening. There will be dancing from 10 to 3 o'clock...
Last week Newark, N.J. was the field of the jitterbug's equivalent to ordeal by battle. Benny Goodman, who for four years has reigned in adolescent hearts as the King of Swing, was playing on the stage at the Shubert Theatre. Within shagging distance, at the neighboring Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film...
...expected jitterbug riots occurred on the opening day. Shaw's vocalist had to burrow to his microphone through the ecstatic exhibitionists swarming the stage. At the Paramount, a boy hurt himself jumping from a box. At the Shubert a girl swooned clean away...
...Jitterbug Sam White at guard turned in another nice game offensively, collecting seven points. Lack of scoring punch in the back court has been a Crimson weakness all year, but in recent games Sam has provided a partial solution to the problem...