Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be music for dancing by Duke Oliver and his Rhythm Manor Orchestra from ten to two at the Kirkland House Christmas formal dance, instead of from ten to twelve as reported yesterday...
...Babies," Dr. McGraw was convinced, "have got rhythm...
...written before the publication of Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral", a dramatic poem in the full meaning of the term. That poem demonstrated, one may venture to suggest, the virtues and vices of Eliot's poetic method. His dramatic monologues--learned and concentrated and imbued with a strange rhythm--never reached a wide audience; they appealed to the widely read expert--the expert in the reading of poetry--in his study; they were not and are not popular poems. On the other hand, poetic names, whether they be tragedies, comedies, or historical plays, have only one legitimate excuse...
...first dance in Paris "Mile." Baker wore feathers on her rump, bananas dangling from her belt, nothing else. Parisians were raving overnight about her lithe bronze body, her wild sense of rhythm. Soon she was able to conduct her own night club, buy a chateau, a bed which was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans...
...have been plausible in its roles. Few operatic directors could have mastered its theatre. The Guild was determined, at all costs, to make the opera live. Rouben Mamoulian, who directed the original play, was summoned from Hollywood. Negroes were assembled who knew no stuffy traditions, had true feeling for rhythm. Mamoulian's hand was particularly evident in the big mass groupings, in the way he kept the action in pace with the music. The Negroes in prayer suggested an entire down-trodden race...