Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanford's marveling alumni wondered if they had hired a magician. But it was not magic but music that turned Stanford into a winning team. An accomplished pianist once headed for the concert stage, Coach Shaughnessy works out his plays to music. Basis for his system is a waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point where the linesmen (likewise counting one-two-three) have opened a hole. The whole team nod their heads...
...Tulane, Coach Shaughnessy used to make slow-charging linemen jump by firing a peashooter at the seat of their pants. At Stanford, he has needed no peashooter. The Indians, delighted with waltz-time football, have carried out his strategies with metronomic precision, have turned out to be the Cinderella team of the year...
...piano while someone takes his tunes down. For The Great Dictator, his first picture in which he avowedly needed help, Composer Chaplin thought up most of the tunes, in part or in whole, let Composer Willson do the rest. One sequence, a variation on an old beer-garden waltz, begins when Actor Chaplin is hit on the head by a frying pan, which is tuned to D natural. Composer Willson thinks that Chaplin's longest (32 bars) melody, identified in the score as "Boulevardier," will be a hit. Other themes are called "Rape of Leeda," "Zigeuner" (gypsy), "Schweine-knocken...
...Chicago Century of Progress, the new Rose-colored spectacle has much more varied costumes, provides snatches of old tunes, glimpses of past gaiety. By pairing up Waterlulu Eleanor Holm with handsome Swimmer Buster Crabbe, instead of Aqua-caveman Johnny Weissmuller, Rose added oomph to their big aquatic waltz. The water scenes gain from the use of fountains and a "curtain" of shimmering spray...
...classical favorites, and light tone-poems. The audience listens lightly and lolls around tables guzzling beers. Tonight Mr. Fiedler's gentleman present their standard gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past season. The ubiquitous Russians Moussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakoff are represented by the magnificent coronation scene from...