Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared Miss Warner in a clinging, translucent gown, her hands manacled at the wrists, her mien intense. She had invented her "Slave Dance" after being distanced by the competition of Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's Century of Progress and now considered herself "The Poetess of Naked Rhythm." To the Boverat family it appeared that a blonde hussy had suddenly interrupted their tea. She startled them further by rapidly removing what seemed to be all her clothes, casting off her manacles with a bang, and spinning her long legs in an expert cartwheel scarce five feet from...
...works patiently and courteously. With a few "hot" exceptions, he has made the arrangements himself. And they are all smoothly polished, all rich in counterpoint, most of them sweet, none sissy. Many of his introductions are almost symphonic. Yet Noble never forgets that he plays for dancing and his rhythm never flags. Even "Goodnight, Sweetheart" is a sturdy swinging tune when Ray Noble plays...
...whole cast participates with an amazing amount of energy and verve with the result that the less successful features of the show are drowned in a contagious wave of rhythm...
...Sothern, she of the dulcet crooning soprano, is the only person who is unfortunately cast. Her really delightful voice is not given ample opportunity. The girl who so successfully put over "Your Head on My Shoulder" in "Kid Millions" deserves a better break than the comic "Rhythm of the Rain." The sleek beauty of Merle Oberon produced a gasping reaction in the audience, and the rest of the cast were adequate...
...taste is sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience...