Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against this talented aggregation of Papooses, Chief Boston plans to pit a Crimson team which has finally stated clicking and which is extremely desirous of avenging last year's 23-14 scalping...
...season. As the hussy, Negro Ballerina Katherine Dunham is a trim and flexible devil's advocate. Her dancers follow her through a series of jazz-heated formations. The accompaniment of one of them is true, improvised boogie-woogie by Pianist Sidney Tuscher of the hand-picked pit orchestra. Staged by the Russian choreographer George Balanchine, fellow Slav of Composer Duke (real name Vladimir Dukelsky), Cabin in the Sky is proof that for fun and verve there is nothing like a theatrical League of Races...
Gallstones are common in middle-aged gall bladders, attack three or four women to every man. Some people can live comfortably with them for years, but if the stones slip into the gall-bladder ducts and cork them up, they cause excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach, the breastbone, or the right side of the back...
...never has. She says: "I breathe when I want to"-which is usually at the precise moment when she has turned a syncopated phrase with sinuous authority. Gershwin was so delighted with her talent that during the run of Girl Crazy he often appeared in the orchestra pit for the sole purpose of playing the piano while she delivered I Got Rhythm. Ethel kept her long-lashed eyes on the house, but she could tell when the composer was at the keyboard by his unusual inventions in the treble...
...judging by Monday night's sprinkled and hesitant laughter. In fact, the whole attitude of the audience today seems far too polite for a playwright used to the bantering of the "pit." The Elizabethan wits must have lambasted Malvolio as enthusiastically as the later 19th Century hissed the villain. His first appearance bedecked with yellow garters probably unloosed a storm of mirth and ridicule. A little more of this boisterousness would be a welcome addition...