Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer as well, Joe has created such tunes as Little Rock Gateway and Gin Mill Blues. . . . DECCA has issued an album of "white Jazz," consisting chiefly of small band jobs done several years ago, and featuring pretty nearly every white musician worth listening to. Among the offerings are Panama by Jimmy McPartland, Jazz Me Blues by the Bob Crosby Bob Cats, Swingin' on the Famous Door by the Delta Four (how did Roy Eldridge get into this), Decca Stomp by Red Norve, and Tin Roof Blues by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings including Wingy Mannone and George Brunies. There...
First it was "Panama Hattic," then "Lady in the Dark" and now it is "Cabin in the Sky", first it was Ethel Merman, the Gertrude Lawrence and now it is Ethel Waters. With these Big Three Boston will be able to look back upon one of its best seasons of musical stage. And with "Cabin in the Sky" alone, the year wouldn't be exactly dull. Albert Lewis and Vinton Freedley have blown into Beantown a breath from the South, a pageant-like play of dusky dancing, spiritualistic singing and vivid settings, which has left critics winded right and left...
...Panama Hattie...
Then Buddy went east and staged three fabulously successful Broadway musicomedies in quick succession: Du Barry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie. Last week Buddy De Sylva was back in Hollywood with a new job. As of May 1, he will be production head of Paramount-a job as big as Zanuck...
Every British boy knows the importance of the Mediterranean. If a bitter enemy to the U. S. controlled the narrow waters off Florida with a terrible stronghold where Havana's feeble old Morro Castle now stands, if this enemy also sat astraddle the Panama Canal and had bases at Trinidad, Jamaica and Tampico, U. S. citizens would probably be alarmed. But the Gulf Stream is not in the U. S. bloodstream. Although perhaps there should be, there is no U. S. tradition of responsibility for the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico comparable to the innate, hereditary British concern...