Word: waltzed
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Fretted white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, at a lecture-recital in Philadelphia: "Ballroom dancing is hopelessly unintelligent. People don't know how to tango and they don't know how to waltz. What they are pleased to call dancing is just rhythmic hugging. ... Of course most people don't even know how to walk...
...that Philadelphians will long remember for its masterly blend of power and tenderness. Mozart and Schubert will have a place on Schnabel's recital programs this winter. But for New Yorkers he has another stiff Beethoven test. Next week he will play the Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. Said he to his manager last week: "You may warn the public, if you like, that they will occupy 53 minutes...
...among the young ladies. They did make news, though, when they selected the music to be played by Meyer Davis and his orchestra for their party. For Papa Roosevelt they picked "Home on the Range." his favorite. For Mama Roosevelt they ordered "The Blue Danube" and "The Merry Widow Waltz" was played in honor of Sister Anna. For themselves & guests they chose "Stars Fell on Alabama," "June in January," "Flirtation Walk," "An Earful of Music," "The Continental," "Stay As Sweet As You Are," "Two Cigarets in the Dark." Meyer Davis on his own initiative provided an original "Harvard Glide," twitting...
...pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...
When novices hear their first Rosenkavalier they are impressed by the lilting waltz themes, the glittering pageantry of oldtime Vienna. But Strauss's comedy, an authentic product of genius, offers more than buffoonery. The role of the Marschallin, sung by Lotte Lehmann, is as subtle a character as any in opera. Here is a woman both beautiful and middleaged. She must be dignified and she must also love a young man ecstatically - while around her whirls the laughter of low comedy...