Word: tappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was Bach and Handel on the program, but the Bach came out of a mouth organ, and the Handel was background for the clickety-clicks of a tap dancer. This recital in Philadelphia last week was given by Harmonicist Larry Adler, a young man who resembles Eddie Cantor, and Tap Dancer Paul Draper, who looks like a blonder Franchot Tone. They had deserted the nightclubs for a joint concert tour...
...mouth organ with Pierian purity, can make it sound like an oboe, fiddle, horn, wawa trumpet. Paul Draper, son of Muriel Draper and nephew of monologuist Ruth Draper, was a stuttering misfit until he learned to dance. Now Paul Draper profitably applies ballet technique and good music to tap dancing, with such warmth and intelligence that many rate him the equal or superior of Fred Astaire...
Your odoriferous article on Philadelphia's water supply (TIME, Oct. 27) marks a new milestone in TIME'S steadily mounting reputation as a fiction publication. For your edification, I am sending you a pint of water drawn from a tap in my home...
...TIME did not say that Philadelphia's water was unsafe in any way, merely that it smelled, but TIME sent Reader Ebert's tap sample to a laboratory for analysis. It showed a relatively high count of harmless bacteria (perhaps his bottle was not thoroughly sterilized). The laboratory noted Reader Ebert's sample had a "slight odor" cold as well as warm...
...this week, daughter of the late, rich Governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane. Agent Crane lost a bit on her first series, jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians...