Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the Moscow Workers Theatre Club. They were the case for the negative in a debate: "Is jazz too bourgeois for proletarian Russia?" In the close, airless clubroom the Moscow Boys took up their instruments and played jazz as they had never played before. They played a waltz, then several French and English foxtrots. The young workers, most of whom were hearing jazz for the first time, were exhilarated but confused. Then Tsfasman called for "Ho Hum," popular three years ago in the U. S. When it was finished the audience cried for an encore. Jazzman Tsfasman...
...Chicago Civic Opera two years ago, has immense assurance and an infectious smile which are acceptable substitutes for acting ability. His voice, which loses none of its quality in recording, is so pleasant that you do not object to almost incessant renditions of the picture's otherwise unremarkable waltz theme song. Be Mine Tonight was first made in German by UFA. Gaumont-British sent a supporting cast to Berlin to remake it in English. Universal liked the British version-directed by Russian Director Anatole Litwak-enough to buy the U. S. rights...
...There have been enough cash pupils to pay the rent. Since then they have been busy as a brewery. When reporters called last week a perspiring carpenter was revolving slowly before a large mirror. For putting up light fixtures and partitions for dressing rooms he was learning to waltz...
...could overlook the lack of plot in "Ein Nacht im Paradies," if it had any of the qualities that in the past have made German musical-comedy films refreshing and amusing. But the photography is blurred, the parts overacted, and there is not a waltz during the whole performance...
...Bausch wrote "The Cascadilla Waltz." As a student at Cornell, he arranged (but did not play in) the first Cornell-Michigan football game...