Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado and Nevada are Senate primary contests in which rebellious Democratic incumbents are being opposed by 100% Rooseveltists (see p. 12). The President will swing through these two States on his way to California, where faithful Senator McAdoo will undoubtedly see him off on a Pacific fishing trip. A plan to combine with fishing a goodwill visit to the west coast of South America was not, last week, finally worked out. C. To the White House Franklin Roosevelt called his Congressional wheelhorses to ask them whether there was any chance of reviving and ramming through the Reorganization Bill this session...
...first time in palace history an American girl was allowed to "swing it" with the musicians. The swingstress was 20-year-old Evelyn Dall, a lissome ash-blonde from New York's Bronx. A onetime hoofer in Billy Rose's Manhattan Music Hall. Miss Dall went abroad in 1933, was leading lady with the Monte Carlo Follies for a season, then joined the London swing band. London cafe-goers know her as ''Ambrose's Bronx Bombshell." Miss Dall, whose real name is Evelyn Mildred Fuss, took her stage name from that of President Roosevelt...
Last night's release "expects" Bayard S. Clark '40 to be master of ceremonies, coordinating and working in specialists, among others, impersonators, a rope spinner, a "swing" trio, a banjo soloist, an octet, and any additional talent scouted among the Class of 1942. The show will be on the singe continually, save for one intermision, during a period of 90 minutes...
Less steady in its aim than most studios is Paramount, which ranges from experimental cinemopera like Rouben Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome to loose-jointed sophomoric trifles like College Swing, Turn Off the Moon. Paramount's net income for last year was $6,045,103. This year's budget, covering 58 planned features, allows for but one million-dollar film, Men with Wings. Paramount's most important trend will be toward romantic U. S. history, with Union Pacific and The Texans. Other specials: If I Were King, with Ronald Colman; Knights of the Round Table...
This first novel was inspired by the music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano...