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...were each instructed to squire a girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over backwards...
Thanks for Everything (Twentieth Century-Fox), not to be confused with Thanks for the Memory (see p. 22). explodes the theory that a genuinely funny story would be out of place in musicomedy. Instead of a show-girl heroine who gets her name in lights in the last reel, it presents, without apologies, the sad case of Henry Smith (Jack Haley) of Plainville, Mo., winner of a $25,000 prize for the Average American...
Color Flight is a four-minute visual and musical experience that resembles a roller coaster ride through a kaleidoscope to the accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions...
...training the horses to keep time with the music was a job that took a year and a half of patient effort. Eventually, however, they learned to alter position and formation by taking their cue from the music. Musical rides are of no more military value than a Virginia reel but, ever since the Life Guards first made them popular in the British Army about 1880, many British cavalry units have taken them...
Last week Neville Chamberlain returned from his Scottish salmon-fishing trip. The fishing had been poor but London toy-shops sprouted timely little booted Neville Chamberlain dolls holding a rod & reel in one hand, a little sign saying PEACE MAKER in the other...