Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When listening to the rhythm of human voices, some are enwrapped, as though never before had man made any sound besides those of pain, joy, at the Glee Club concerts on the steps of Widener are pelicans to him who gapes on them from a library window. Straight they stand, or stiffly they walk, nosing one another and raising sharp little cries...
...order. The master recordings of hundreds of notable numbers, played by inspired but informal groups of musicians in obscure studios, have been lost or destroyed. Copies of records made in Swing's golden age, the 19203, by bands like the Wolverines, Friars Society Orchestra and New Orleans Rhythm Kings, are therefore as rare as Gutenbergs and, to lovers of America's native music, as valuable...
Tennis is one of the most graceful of games in its movements, and in its rhythm. It teaches the player to stand properly, because it encourages poise and balance. People who have played much tennis walk in a smooth and cat-like manner. If there is any excessive muscular development, it is because the strokes have been done incorrectly, and strain has been imposed unnecessarily upon muscles not prepared...
...Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family. Good sequence: Maine delivering amiable insults to his sanatorium attendant-christened "Cuddles" after Bing Crosby's bull in Rhythm on the Range...
...Fiction RHYTHM FOR RAIN-John Louw Nelson -Houghton -Mifflin ($3.25). Unusual first novel of Hopi Indians during the terrible Arizona drought of 80 years ago, by the research director of the American Indian Heye Foundation. Illustrated with ceremonial paintings by Indian artists and photographs by the author...