Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present at the opening of Manhattan's 1939 International Flower Show were two newcomers: Dorothy Thompson (a pearly-blue sweet pea) and Brendo (a white-petaled, crimson-lipped orchid...
...still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...
With a whiff of Lucius Beebe just to make it all authentic, Hollywood has produced its latest treatise on New York night life. "Cafe Society," now playing at the Metropolitan, is a gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing...
...Stacy, and good blues singing by Johnny Mercer; but the rhythm section just can't stay with Basie's and no white man could ever sing the blues like "Rush" (Jim Rushing) can. Ella Fitzgerald sings a clever half-time chorus on Chick Webb's "Undecided" (Decca) ... Good sweet playing by the band and Bob Eberle's singing make Jimmy Dorsey's dise of his own tune "It's Anybody's Moon," successful ... Both "Mary's Idea" by Andy Kirk and "Shorty George" by Count Basie are examples of solid Kansas City swing...
...Sweet Little Buttercup (Larry Clinton: Victor) proves that Sir Arthur Sullivan (Onward! Christian Soldiers and the Savoy operettas) can be swung as well as sung...