Word: shaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark, N.J. was the field of the jitterbug's equivalent to ordeal by battle. Benny Goodman, who for four years has reigned in adolescent hearts as the King of Swing, was playing on the stage at the Shubert Theatre. Within shagging distance, at the neighboring Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film; and the acts accompanying...
...possible to require suppressors on all razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...
...Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration...
...Freshman Union Committee will give its second dance of the year on Friday night. Again, Don Gahan's music will be featured. The Union Committee, in conjunction with the dance, is conducting a poll among the members of the class to determine their favorite swing band. Thus far, Artie Shaw, the newest fad in popular music, is leading in votes. The musical arrangements of the winning orchestra will be played for one half hour during the evening...
Blake (B) defeated Kent (D), 15-12, 18-16, 15-7. Williams (B) defeated Holbein (D), 15-11, 15-17, 12-15, 15-10, 18-15. Crandall (D) defeated Wood (H), 15-4, 12-15, 15-0, 15-9, Shaw (B) defeated Turkevich (D), 15-9, 6-15, 10-15, 15-10, 15-13. Eaton (D) won by default...