Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes behind Louis Armstrong are carrying the tune, when it can be detected behind his raspy, comical singing, his fancy trumpeting. Their rhythm is flawless, thanks to their leader who may smoke Muggles* to make his own performance hot but who realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis Armstrong may have developed a fancy man's taste for clothes, travel with 20 trunks full of them. But no black man works harder than he does. In Depression not many phonograph artists are worth fighting over but Victor and Okeh are both aware that more than 100,000 Louis...
...down to a steady 34 and 35 to cover the last mile and a quarter. As the Crimson stroke was lowered the power in the boat seemed to drop also, and the crew rowed the remainder of the race at a stroke comparable to Syracuse, but without Syracuse's rhythm or drive...
...Harvard might have fared had she been more interested in settling into a powerful racing rhythm than in taking the lead at all costs with a heart-breaking clip which she could not possibly keep up, that is a matter for conjecture...
...this position she lays her eggs. The male lies arched beside her ready to fertilize the eggs. It is when the females are struggling to extricate themselves from their half-buried positions that they seem to 'stand on their tails and dance to the rhythm of the surf...
...presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby, Roscoe Ates, Edna May Oliver and George Arliss. A girl named Kitty Kelly sings three Gershwin songs from the stage version of Girl Crazy ("I've Got Rhythm." "Bidin' My Time," "Not for Me"). Eventually the happy adjustment of a minor romance between the dude rancher (Eddie Quillan) and a coy Arizonan (Arline Judge) serves as an excuse to end the picture. Typical shot: Wheeler & Woolsey tweaking the nose of a wild west villain (Stanley Fields...