Word: raves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drops out as the juvenile in a hoofing act to write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which he later does some neat hoofing...
...have heard lots of people shout & rave...
...Fascintern, with Hitler in the driver's seat, with Mussolini, Franco and the Japanese military cabal riding behind, emerged in 1938 as an international, revolutionary movement. Rant as he might against the machinations of international Communism and international Jewry, or rave as he would that he was just a Pan-German trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist?so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler...
Baker made arrangements with the Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...
...public--generally enhancing the picture with a few precious baubles of his own opinion on the subject. Yes, the Vag knows he ought to get down to business. But he also knows he can't dictate subjects to himself. And today just seems to be not his day to rave of scholastic oratory. It's Saturday--the first one of the New Year--and the Vag will probably spout about more vital matters. Such as football...