Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, the only reason anybody wanted to her Cab Calloway was to see the King of Hi-Di-Ho tear the stage into small splinters, put his larynx to such weird uses as gargling "Chinese Rhythm", and moan the immortal "Minnie The Moocher...
...kick with the band was that as soon as Cab stepped off the stage, there was nothing there but a rather noisy brass section and an exceedingly wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
...active part of the crew season approaches, there are several developments in the national crew setup that will change the face of the season. Among other things, the Princeton crew has been entered in the Poughkeepsie regatta this year, and a possible East-West race has almost reached the stage of planning...
While on the surface the progress of Negro-influenced music seems almost imperceptible, more and more recognition is being granted by important musical figures on and off the concert stage, at least those who are not paid to grind out the three B's to insatiable audiences. If the trend keeps up, Negro music should emerge as one of the great influences in the course of classical music in this century...
...sketches in a sympathetic American broadcaster doing the crisis circuit ("the American public insists on being kept fully informed"). In all, it is a cast that makes the most of many excellently written scenes, and never really lets the audience down. It has been said that the American stage is incapable of producing a good play about a contemporary dictatorship. Mr. Sherwood has done it; in achieving his success he has looked at tyranny from the north side of the Mannerheim Line, and to find its victims has trepanned the human skull and poked around in the gray matter inside...