Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newberry's "This is the Night," ably sung in the show by Lawrence L. Davis '38, is already being played over radio net-works and is soon to be published in New York. Louis Armstrong, dusky bombshell of rhythm, has promised that he will make a record of "Zulu Lulu" in the near future...
...first impression. The play was an extremely sympathetic treatment of a White family during the horrors of the 1917-22 civil war. First presented eight years ago, it was promptly banned by Soviet censors. Moscow now regards it as one of its most popular plays. Mood and rhythm are the big contributions of the Art Theatre. Observer Houghton properly registered on both...
...docket of the French Court of Appeals came the case of U. S. Dancer Joan Warner, "Poetess of Naked Rhythm," who was found guilty of "publicly outraging modesty" by dancing in a respectable Paris restaurant in blue powder and a gossamer cache-sexe (TIME, July 29 et ante). The court reaffirmed Poetess Warner's fine of 50 francs ($3.30), lowered the restaurant owner's fine from 250 to 50 francs. Carefully the judges pointed out that the ruling does not prevent Miss Warner from practicing her art in theatres and music halls...
However, you have omitted a few facts about sumo. You speak about the liberality in allowing the contenders to delay the starting of matches. The actual fact is that ancient custom holds that all preliminary ceremonies even including breathing must be performed in absolute rhythm to prevent one participant from obtaining any undue advantage over the other in the start...
Those who find the student's life a prosaic tedium will be particularly glad to know that at least in celluloid whimsy universities are still being run on rhythm, and Joe College is still at large. "Freshman Love" is the latest exposition of the rollicking, carefree, hilarious whirl that is the lot of the American scholar. Granted that the healthy reaction toward that title is a groan. No attempt will be made here to induce anyone to look at this picture, but the thing is not quite so bad as the foregoing classification implies...