Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago played three works competently before the intermission. Then last Sunday's Orchestra Hall audience craned their necks, watched a young man with horn-rimmed spectacles being led to a piano on the stage. The young man felt the keyboard, struck a note lightly, tentatively. Conductor Ebba Sundstrom tap-tapped with her baton. Into Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto swung the orchestra, followed by the young man who, despite his unorthodox way of holding his hands flat, his arms stiff, played fleetly with sure, supple tone...
Catchy, rhythmic music, a trained and finished chorus, tap dancing, juggling, acrobatics, and a fast-moving, hilarious plot are all mixed in proper amounts, and the result, on exhibition at the Hasty Pudding Club House last night, is one of the best Pudding shows in many years...
...finished dancing number is the Apache dance done in convincing manner by Benjamin Welles, II '38 and Camman Newberry '37. John C. Develin '38 virtually steals the show, juggling with enough skills to make W. C. Fields look carefully to his laurels. He tops this off with an expert tap dancing...
Earning for himself the undisputed right to the title of most talented in the cast, John C. Develin '38 delighted the spectators with his tap dancing routine and the difficult juggling feats...
Unlike many a prodigy, young Marjorie Edwards is a natural, unthwarted person who rides a bicycle, collects stamps, wishes she could tap dance better than she does, reveres Yehudi Menuhin. Her father is an automobile salesman in San Jose, her mother a piano teacher who has given lessons to the grocer's child and taken food for pay. Young Marjorie drummed out piano scales long before she was given her first violin. But the fiddle revealed her talent. At 9 she had progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week...