Word: jiving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type. Dis, dat, dese-I can learn to talk that way but not very well...
...know that high-school students prefer colored toothpaste, eat three times as many candy bars as their parents, heed Lifebuoy's "B.O." slogan oftener than Ivory's "It Floats." This and other sales-stimulating information is the merchandise they buy from Chicago's newest pollster: pollster" jive-jumping Eugene Gilbert, president of Gil-Bert Teen Age Services...
...Thousand and One Nights (Columbia) is inspired about equally by Scheherazade and Billy Rose. Spicing up the Arabian Nights with jive talk is risky business, at best-but A Thousand and One Nights mixes and very nearly succeeds in making the most of two different worlds...
...bangs down the curtain on much the best part of the show. Though this jive and boogie-woogie romp may have Gilbert & Sullivan spinning in their graves, they can't be spinning any faster than things do on the stage while Pinafore holds it. Thereafter the show gets grounded, along with the showboat. The plot trails off, without even leaving footprints, in all directions; the people go through a lot of boisterous but baffling antics; a dream fantasia nominally involving Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury gets wedged somewhere into the proceedings...
...Century-Fox) generally hits the dirt short of the peg; but it clangs out ringers whenever Betty Grable is pitching. It is the loudest and most energetic Grable vehicle in some time. As the Horseshoe's fastest filly, Miss Grable socks out A Nickel's Worth of Jive, dreams of mink coats in the manner of not-quite-a-lady in the dark, misleads and falls in love with young Dr. Dick Haymes, and demonstrates the fact that motherhood's extra pound or so of flesh can improve even the screen's most unimprovable body. Radio...