Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first picture in which Miss Powell has had a dancing partner; she performs with George Murphy an Astaire and Rogerish number, I'm Feeling Like a Million, which is good but not as good as Astaire and Rogers. Apparently for lack of other hit material the tap finale is rounded out with tunes from the original and second Broadway Melodies. These are still excellent...
...before she came out in 1928. Since she is the daughter of rich Banker Robert Learning ("Colonel Bob") Montgomery, she has had plenty of money to study, compose, paint, model, indulge her taste for exotic instruments including Japanese "fish-heads," tiny, castinet-like instruments which priests are supposed to tap continuously near their ears to drive out all but religious thoughts. Drums have long been Miss Montgomery's passion, and for years she would not let her pupils practice with anything else...
Thereafter the Marines busy themselves with little but tap dance routines arranged by fanciful Busby Berkeley. Never at sea, they cleverly oblige dance-hall patrons by performing "right, dress!" and "squads-right" in full Marine regalia. The Marines otherwise enliven Shanghai night life by their efforts to set up their own night club, are recalled to duty only in a final musical number. Songs: 'Cause My Baby Says It's So, The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed, The Song of the Marines...
Russell Markert still helps direct the Rockettes, helps work out their routines, which are divided between classical and tap dance numbers. Between their four shows daily he manages to sandwich rehearsals for new numbers. There are 46 in the troupe, but only 36 dance at one time. Rockettes earn $48.50 a week, dance three weeks out of four. The average Rockette stands 5 ft. 4 in. She may be anywhere from 18 to 23. Six of the girls are married, four engaged. There are more brunettes than blondes, three redheads. Few Rockettes are ravishing, because Markert cares more about legs...
...precisely the opposite direction. A junior college where most students take only a two-year course, Stephens is equipped with a streamlined curriculum which makes girls worry little over mathematics or Greek, lets them concentrate instead on such subjects as Elementary Music, Consumers' Problems, Principles of Dietetics, Tap Dancing, Expressive Speech. The courses are grouped to correspond with the seven main divisions which sprightly President Wood and Psychologist Wernett W. Charters made of women's problems: ethical, physical, mental, social, communicative, esthetic, budgetary. Psychologist Charters, who was engaged by Stephens in 1922 to help President Wood decide...