Word: moochers
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...years ago, the only reason anybody wanted to her Cab Calloway was to see the King of Hi-Di-Ho tear the stage into small splinters, put his larynx to such weird uses as gargling "Chinese Rhythm", and moan the immortal "Minnie The Moocher...
...Calloway, the hi-de-ho man who brought Minnie the Moocher everlasting fame, occupies the stage of the Boston Theater this week along wit a newspaper film, "Woman Wise". Calloway sings and struts to a number of Harlem favorites with a little more restraint than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano...
...husband's country lodge, complying with the new convention whereby Metropolitan Opera stars show cinema patrons how jolly and unpretentious they really are by breaking into jazz, Miss Moore rivals the recent efforts of Lily Pons and Gladys Swarthout by moaning an expurgated version of "Minnie the Moocher" while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing as a gesture of loyalty to an orchestra conductor (Henry Stephenson). Miss Moore favors the sound track...
...danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience to its inane exhilaration and to possible neurosis...
Stooping to massage a leg muscle strained during his recent acrobatics, he said that he had started in the entertainment world in order to pay his way through law school, but finding that the two didn't mix, he stayed with his band. "Minnie the Moocher," "Zazu Zazz," and his latest "Hot-Cha-Zazz-Matazz-Zazz" are not solely his own creations, he modestly explained, but he and the boys work them out together. "Perhaps these pieces played by a less well-known orchestra would be a failure, for a reputation is necessary to present something out of the ordinary...