Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partner, began demonstrating the dance a month ago. It was featured in London dance halls, in provincial ice shows. This week Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle; place hand on heart, bow; waltz for four bars; repeat the whole thing. Boomps-a-Daisy...
...film) is five-year-old John Sheffield, son of English Actor Reginald Sheffield, who once had Noel Coward for an understudy. Starting out as a 4-lb. incubator baby, little Tarzan has been undergoing special, muscle-building courses of sprouts since he was two, learning to chin himself, perform athletic improbabilities and ignore fear...
...Hyde Park, Rev. Frank R. Wilson had his telephone disconnected to keep people from pestering him for seats at the service he will perform Sunday in St. James Episcopal ("the President's") Church, with presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church preaching the sermon. Rector Wilson declared that faithful past church attendance would now yield a dividend: regular worshippers would get seats, others would have to stand in the grounds outside. He also put churchmanlike perspective on all the hullabaloo. Said he: "We realize it is a great honor that our church will...
...said, "we have been somewhat frightened by the silence of our countrymen created by the lack of community or mass singing. . . ." To break the silence, President Ober had arranged for a "national chorus" of 950 voices. When this great choir trooped into Baltimore's Lyric Theatre to perform such easily negotiable gems as Ah, Love but a Day by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, it had to be placed in the orchestra seats while the audience sat on the stage. When part of the national chorus, transported to the World's Fair, reached the climax of the Federation...
Government. Soviets in Russia perform administrative functions roughly comparable to those of municipal councils, State legislatures, Congress, in the U. S. Originally committees formed in factories and towns when the Tsar's authority broke down, there are now 70,000 of them to whom delegates, not always Communist Party members, are elected by secret ballot in direct elections, but from candidates selected by the Communist Party. Over local Soviets are Soviets of townships, over them Soviets of regions, over them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which...