Word: jitterbugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paltry $300,000, trapped $1,000,000 worth of customers. Kyser drew $100,000 net profit from the highly speculative enterprise with only the $5,000 weekly salary of his band to be deducted. Other studios, gasping at the result, quickly signed up further favorites of the jitterbug generation, for pictures that are now on their way. Paramount put Artie Shaw into Second Chorus, Orrin Tucker (and Bonnie Baker) into You're the One, expects to start Las Vegas Nights with Tommy Dorsey by month's end; Jimmy Roosevelt's Globe Productions hired Horace Heidt...
...last winter a young textile worker went to Manhattan's Neurological Institute. He complained of "spells." Whenever he took a nip of alcohol, coffee, tea or cola drinks, said he, the result was startling: he would lose control of his muscles and leap like a jitterbug. His cavorting was invariable: he curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop...
Even a suave butler, in the person of famed Arthur Treacher of Hollywood, succumbs somewhat to the prevailing laxities. Although managing to maintain a certain propriety through an attempted seduction by Jitterbug Dancer Betty Hutton, when she cautions him "You can't take it with you," Butler Treacher unbends sufficiently to reply: "It wouldn't be very safe to leave it around here, either...
...addition to Ethel's native ability, there are the superb antics of a sailor trio from the Idaho, Arthur Treacher's poker-faced buttling, and the inhuman jitterbug energy of Betty Hutton to keep the show at a lively pace. Costuming and scenery are done in the best Panamanian manner by Raoul DuBois, and the book of Fields and DeSylva is good musical comedy stock. Added up, this should be the proper formula for another Broadway hit, but in its embryonic stages the show does not yet live up to its promise. "Panama Hattie" still gives the impression of dragging...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...