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Though the old Cinderella story alone always makes good entertainment, in "Irene" music, beauty, and a behemoth colored-mammy jitterbug are thrown in for good measure. Anna Neagle is the starryeyed girl with an Irish brogue who falls into fairyland. Ray Milland and Alan Marshall are the tail-coated sheiks who try to catch her. And when Ellis Island and Plymouth Rock don't quite fit together, May Robson is there to prove that you can't stop an O'Dair from the County Clare after he's caught sight of a goal or a bottle. As granny...
...phony Russian count, makes the best possible of a part which is none too easy to put across. His Cossack dance is one of the highlights of the show. The beauties of the bulging biceps, constituting the chorus, are uproariously funny. Dave Stiles deserves special comment for his pseudo-jitterbug antics. They bring down the house...
...sense to this jitterbug fad, but I like good swing music even after listening to it steadily for such a long time. Of all the bands I have heard, I would place Bob Chester at the top of the list...
Besides being good publicity, Tommy Dorsey's article on jitterbugs in this week's "Look" had some very good ideas. Designed to refute Artie Shaw's blasts in the Saturday Evening Post (interesting to note what magazines the offense and defense find refuge in), Dorsey said in effect that Jitterbugs had just as much right to their style of dancing as did the swing musicians to their style of playing; and that anyway, there was nothing wrong with most Jitterbugs; that while rather stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar...
...above this reviewer would like to add a word about jitterbugging in general. A great many people say that it is unsightly. We agree that very often jitterbugs don't look too aesthetic in their dancing. But this is usually because they aren't dancing well--because they are dancing stiffly--and therefore get out of time with dire results to their steps. Good dancing of this type, done well, is as (or more) attractive than a great deal of the ballroom dancing today. If you don't think this is true, watch some good colored dancers when they aren...