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...From California to Manhattan went eleven women, aged 61 to 75, to appear as showgirls at Billy Rose's famed Casa Mariana. Billed as "The Elderblooms," the old girls shag, truck, sing Flat Foot Floogie...
...America, bar none--Virginians take their education in small doses. On the side, they learn a lot about guns and dogs and horses and history and co-eds. They find time to be in the vanguard of those who popularize such dance madnesses as the Big Apple and the Shag, which later ooze northward to fame. They learn how to talk general culture in a drawling, modulated voice that makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars are considered by the local constabulary...
...Island one night last week marched some 550 young men and women from the earth's six continents. They tramped across the field bearing red torches and the flags of 58 nations. The crowd of 23,000 cheered their foreign songs, their folk dances, their gymnastics, a collegiate shag performed by U. S. students. But it roared loudest when the spotlight fell on 13 delegates from Spain, jumped to its feet to chant the 'Loyalist anthem. For this was no Olympic sports festival but a pacifists' rally, the opening of the second World Youth Congress...
Last week the 1938 jamboree opened with a Graustarkian comic opera entitled Smeltania, followed by coronation of a Smelt King & Queen. Next day jamboreers jammed banquets, watched smelt-eating contests, sang an official smelt-jamboree song, learned to dance "the smelt run," a cross between the shag and the big apple. At week's end the festival wound up with an afternoon parade and a mammoth bonfire at a nearby river. To this last flocked natives and visitors alike, armed to the ears with butterfly nets, bird cages, sieves, kitchen strainers, washtubs and burlap bags, for the season...
...Anyway," said Fats, "the words 'Big Apple' is just slang for New York. And it ain't nothin' new, neither, it's just a conglameration of de Susie Q, de Shag, Peckin', Truckin' de Westchester, and de Peabody...