Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation is changed. Hank Barber will yell across the room to ask Shep Wolff if he is going to the show, Bromberg and Johnson will discuss their economics assignments in rather loud voices. Bill Phinney will probably offer a suggestion or two as the rest of the audience tap their glasses or plates with the silverware, calling for order and quiet "Chuck" Crehan announces his authority and asks the fellows to give the speaker a chance to be heard...
Both Miss Alexander and Mr. Williams do their utmost for the piece, but a composite ghost it still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down...
...Bill Robinson, famed Negro tap-dancer, was leaving a Pittsburgh hotel, he heard a woman scream that she had been robbed. Dancer Robinson gave chase to the fleeing thief, fired into the air with a small gold-plated revolver (gift of New York's police department). A policeman heard the report, did not see the thief, did see Robinson running, fired at and wounded him in the arm. The thief escaped. At the hospital Robinson complimented the policeman on his alertness...
Still pessimistic about his prospects Coach Horween will probably require a good deal of hard work of his charges this week and taper off towards the end of the fortnight. At least three scrimmages are on tap for this week, probably one of them with the seconds...
Interested spectators during the week-long convention were dapper Bill Robinson, Negro, who at 52 wears rakishly the undisputed crown of king of all living tap-dancers; Ziegfeld's Harriet Hoctor, S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, famed Balletman Chester Hale, Dancers Patricia Bowman, Grace Dufay, Evelyn La Tour, Ramon & Rosita, Adelaide Hall...