Word: jitterbugged
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...banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props, finally brought down the house in a whirlwind song & dance entitled "Little Miss Muffett." Heady if not flooring, the revue's charm and occasional brilliance recalled the pleasant vintage of its predecessor One For The Money (TIME...
...boyhood friend, insists that Artie Shaw will be back in Hollywood within three weeks to record for Victor, to make a picture, and to marry Miss Betty Grable. He also says that Shaw has "seen the light" while on his Mexican vacation and has "changed" his mind about the jitterbug situation...
...Swingin' the Dream, a jitterbug version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, opened a week earlier; but no self-respecting Bard-hunter would stalk such mongrel prey...
...Mikado a hit in swing, it was dollars to doughnuts that Broadway would not rest until it had swung the Bard himself. Last week at Radio City's huge Center Theatre it swung him high & wide, turning A Midsummer-Night's Dream into a lavish jitterbug extravaganza. Shifting the scene from Athens to New Orleans around 1890 ("At the Birth of Swing"), it displayed clarinet-tooting Benny Goodman, trumpet-blowing Louis Armstrong, soft-voiced Maxine Sullivan, Walt Disneyish scenery, scraps of Mendelssohn's famed Midsummer-Night's Dream music, hit tunes in swingtime, half-a-dozen...
...years Martin Block, softly recommending brides to Michaels Credit Department Store, husbands to the Madison Personal Loan service, listeners to the trumped-up rigmarole of his Make-Believe Ballroom, had made $60,000. Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...