Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This new comedy is light and gay, largely due to directorial skill and the presence of Fred Astaire's amazing feet. Irving Berlin's music is full of rhythm and melody. Although the "Piecolino" is not a real successor to the "continental," as the blurbs assert, several tunes, notably "Dancing Cheek to Cheek," and "Top Hat," will be favorites for a long time...
...Ritz Bar last week smart Paris credited Mme Cecile Sorel, aged warhorse of the Comedie Franchise, and Miss Joan Warner, Pennsylvania-born "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" (TIME, July 22. et seq.), each with a new and magnificent...
...Rhythm (RKO). The conception of a college campus as a place where young men and women spend their time in making animal sounds to imitate saxophones or dabbling, in rumble seats, with the tentative aspects of sex became obsolete in 1929. The fact that most
Next day in Paris the Correctional Court fined famed U. S. "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" Joan Warner 50 francs ($3.32) after a witness had testified that he could see what her cache-sexe (G string) was supposed to hide when she did her so-called Slave Dance (TIME, July 22). Unwittingly she confirmed Equity-man Gillmore's point about coolie wages paid to U. S. dancing girls abroad. Protesting her $3.32 fine, Miss Warner cried: "This means that I may have to pay as a fine every penny I make for my performance, in case somebody wants to bring...
...fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame.'' No attempt, however, was made to stop the Poetess of Naked Rhythm from appearing at frankly bawdy Paris music halls outside which the public was expected to park its sense of shame. More popular than ever. Miss Warner has been cashing in on her indictment all winter, banking the wages of dirt, and appearing at numerous night clubs and galas as well...