Word: waltzed
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Eily still takes her crocheting down to afternoon tea at the restaurant where Tolly's trio-which specializes in light classics-will play Cruising only by request. The two chums have already written a new Skaters' Waltz, but, says Eily, "We'll never write another Cruising. It was just a flash...
...talk to him. "I said 'I like Tchaikovsky,' and he said, 'Good, I do too.' I said, 'I played the first American performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto in 1934,' and Stalin said 'Good.' " Winston Churchill requested Missouri Waltz, and "fortunately, I knew the tune." At another dinner Truman turned the pages while List played Chopin. An hour of piano playing was all Churchill's ears could stand. List remembers the Prime Minister turning to Truman and growling: "Mr. President, why don't you go home...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
...extreme shyness. As a boy on Manhattan's lower East Side he couldn't work up enough courage to dance with girls. On the theory he has held ever since, that personal popularity parallels dancing ability, he grimly learned to dance, soon won a settlement house "flatfoot waltz" contest. From that he went on to be a dance instructor for Vernon and Irene Castle, among others. When he was making $100 a week, he quit to study business administration at Georgia Tech. Said he: "I didn't want to be a hoofer...
Lily Pons: Waltz Album (Columbia, 8 sides). Piccolo-voiced Pons trills Gounod, Strauss and Noel Coward, all in three-quarters time. Performance: good...