Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Follow the Fleet (RKO) was designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with...
...White House luncheon honoring Lady Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador, was canceled, the White House Congressional reception postponed a fortnight. The affection which the Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy conceived for Britain's "Sailor King" was not, however, enough to cause him to half-staff the White House flag, as Roosevelt I did when the British Ambassador died in Washington in 1902. Then T. R. explained that it was not because Lord Pauncefote had been a distinguished diplomat, but because he was a "damned good fellow...
...last rites, simple but majestic, were performed by George V's lifelong friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...
...than Promoter Seltzer, cannot expect to make a living from their vocation, most are intermittently engaged in other work. When the current Chicago Derby started, the field included a butcher, a candy wrapper, a steel mill worker who holds eight roller-skating records, a commercial artist, a tattooed French sailor who had a lady's portrait scraped off his hip in a fall last fortnight, a golf-club maker and a pretty 21-year-old girl who claims to be a cousin of Herbert Hoover. She, Elizabeth Hoover of Kansas City, with her tall, blond Swedish partner, Wes Aronson...
...Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy antics and plot convolutions, and set to impudent, lighthearted music. Some of it is music worn thin by 1935's dancing slippers, but some good new ones have been added: Sailor Beware, Moonburn, My Heart...