Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally conjured up in Harlem's "Congo" district where a black and elemental breed of cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...
Blazing with gorgeous costumes, Act II fanfares a diamond-hatted, golden-suited, golden-shod Bill Robinson into view as Harlemperor of Japan. On a pair of Sullivan heels stutter-toed Mr. Robinson thereupon steps into character to show that at 60 he is still the noblest tap dancer of them all. After that The Hot Mikado is 98° in the shade-and no shade-till the curtain falls...
...time, but it still swings. When Krupa was playing his theater tour last summer, he had two kids with him who really did a marvelous job: they danced to fast tunes, but with all the case and grace of a couple of cats. That's what makes Bill Robinson's dancing what it is: marvelous technique--so much that he can just relax and jump right along with the tune. It the jitterbugs will learn this trick in dancing just as the white bands have to learn it is playing, and will stay off the stand, and not kill...
Professor Robinson, whose retirement was predicted by the CRIMSON, last week, is a prominent scholar in the Celtic languages and early English literature and has been in the department of English here since...
...Both Robinson and Allard will become professors cmeriti, when their resignations become effective next September...