Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncanny colored sense of rhythm is given full play in producing Moonglow, Dinah, Margie, and Sylvin, the first being especially pleasing. The Five Percolators provide a certain amount of entertainment by their verbal antics and assorted tap dancing...
...other story, full of pathos, concerns the young Freshman from the West, uninitiated in the social arts, who found himself unexpectedly on a dance floor with an attractive girl. To his horror, he suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder and away went gliding his beauty with her rescuer...
...actually believed that Herr Goebbels meant what he said was Editor Welk of Die Grime Post, an agricultural weekly that once had a circulation of a million. Editor Welk returned from the meeting to tap out a mild little editorial headed "Mr. Minister, A Word Please" which suggested that perhaps Minister of Propaganda Goebbels might have lost touch with the public, shut in as he was by thousands of antechambers. The presses had hardly stopped printing the editorial before Editor Welk found himself in a concentration camp and his paper suppressed for three months. Only the mocking laughter...
...stage distractions at the Orpheum live up to the Standards of American vaudeville, by consisting of acrobats, pathetic comedians, and much too much tap dancing...
...manager of California Bank in Santa Monica. Associate Producer Lew Brown, who discovered Jackie Cooper, chose her for Stand Up and Cheer from a group of 200 child actresses who answered a general call. She had already learned to sing by imitating radio crooners. She learned most of her tap-dancing in three weeks on the Fox lot. Blonde and pretty, Shirley Temple signed her own contract with...