Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meet Me in St. Louis (M.G.M.) is a musical that even the deaf should enjoy. They will miss some attractive tunes like the sure-fire Trolley Song, the graceful Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, the sentimental You and I and the naively gay title waltz. But they can watch one of the year's prettiest pictures...
...stump Truman has remained very much himself, getting off homely remarks, standing at attention whenever bands play the Missouri Waltz (thus forcing the audience to do the same), plugging all local Democrats as a regular party man should. (In California he thus endorsed Hal Styles, Democratic candidate for Congress, who had been clearly exposed as a onetime member of the Ku Klux Klan...
...leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through the first bars of the waltz . . . and then separated, the lady choosing a man from those seated around the room, the man choosing a lady, with whom the figure was danced. . . . Girl or boy, your success depended on the number of times you were taken out. The favor figures were the most exciting. The favors-sometimes...
...event: the U.S. debut of a famous coloratura soprano. Curiously, the singer had not been near an opera house in almost a decade. To the U.S. public she was known chiefly as the lush blonde whose lighthearted warbling had been the feature of the lavish Hollywood musical The Great Waltz. Her name is Miliza Korjus (pronounced Mlit'sa Kor'-yoos...
Under the Spell. By 1937 Korjus records had reached Hollywood, where they delighted M.G.M.'s directors, who were looking for a lead for The Great Waltz. Korjus thus became a movie celebrity before the U.S. musical public had even heard of her. Then Korjus was injured in an automobile accident, spent nearly a year in a Santa Monica hospital writing a book "on the transmutation of my spiritual life." Recovered, she disappeared into Mexico, for four years let the musical world go hang. As she explained it later: "I fell in love weeth...