Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, shows in the latter part of the picture, provide more opportunities for the exercise of her crooning ability, and less for the exhibition of her bulk. One shot that should be preserved for posterity is the view of our behemoth hotcha mamma writhing in the contortions of a tap-dance...
...strange fact is that Hollywood producers have never seemed to understand why a hit was a hit. After the enormous reception accorded "Broadway Melody" producers shrewdly decided to reduce their allotments to song writers and corner the market in tap dancers and kick-in-the-pants comedians. The resultant decline in business almost sufficed to wreck America's greatest infant industry. Counter to this, however, "42nd Street" has at least one good song and a brilliant orchestra to play...
...just what you might not expect-Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson), who failed to make a Broadway success in her own right because her voice was too small and who was persuaded to make her cinema début in this picture because she has pretty legs and can tap dance. Ruby Keeler's utter inability to act is far more appropriate to her rôle than any feigned incompetence could possibly be. It gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George Brent, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell and Warner Baxter...
...conducted contests between second-rate birds. A larger class of cockers are poultry breeders, farmers, country folk who raise gamefowl for profit, pit them at well-advertised meets such as the Orlando tournament in Florida. The third class of cockers are wealthy individuals like the members of the Heel Tap Club, who breed and fight gamecocks for the amusement of making huge sidebets. Lest their names become known, such breeders almost never pit their birds at well-known meets...
...churchmen deny that the ministry has candidates aplenty. But there is dissension as to what to do about them, how to get quality in place of quantity. In a New England school last fortnight met a group of Episcopalians, to tap the wellsprings, the colleges, for eager, able young ministers. They held a New Year's meeting on the Ministry, as had been done every three years since 1920, and as will probably be done annually henceforth. The meetings are sponsored by Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.). Secretary...