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...Anyway," said Fats, "the words 'Big Apple' is just slang for New York. And it ain't nothin' new, neither, it's just a conglameration of de Susie Q, de Shag, Peckin', Truckin' de Westchester, and de Peabody...
...Virginia reel. Fundamental step is a hop similar to the Lindy Hop. In the words of Variety, "it requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah." Through it all, the "caller" shouts...
...wholly unattractive young woman. Her coiffure has been strangely mutilated, but her charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry about missing "Freshman Love...
George White's Scandals has been confected this year upon the principle that a couple of second-hand ideas are worth a single original one. In line with this idea, Lyricist Jack Yellen has taken equal parts of Ted Koehler's Truckin' and Irving Berlin's Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, given them a shaking and poured off something called Truckin' In My Tails. The rest of the twelfth production of George White's periodical durbar largely owes its origin to old burlesque acts, old vaudeville turns, old smoking-room stories. Nevertheless, many...