Word: jitterbugged
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Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
...that is meant to take place in a beauty parlor involves nine (not ten) young ladies costumed as fingernails performing a rather vapid series of body movements. But luckily the tempo is fast, and in a few minutes the girls are out there again doing a delightful waltz and jitterbug act. Then a few minutes more, and they're in a dazzling outdoor scene that has a spontaneity seldom seen in professional ice performances...
...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...
...football's best one-man team folded up last week. For eleven games, with little help or relief, 172-lb. Bill Dudley of the Pittsburgh Steelers had run around, under & over big 225-pounders. He was not fast, either, but with his jitterbug's change-of-pace, he became the National League's No. 1 ground-gainer (604 yards). He was also the team's sparkplug, did the kicking and passing, led the league in pass interceptions (10). Said he, retiring from pro football after ripping a cartilage in his knee: "I know my limitations...
...military training. Ascetic discipline is rigidly preached and enforced (sexual promiscuity is almost as serious an offense as a weakness for capitalism). Martial virtues are also inculcated. For months after the German surrender, female partisans were allowed to carry hand grenades at their sides (until one exploded during a jitterbug session...