Word: waltzed
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...while she studied in Paris under Maria Egarova, onetime ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. But she was in her middle 20s, too old to become a good ballet dancer. She left school, recording her adventures in a thinly disguised autobiography, Save Me the Waltz. She also began to paint seriously...
...story centers around the life of the Waltz King, and more particularly with the creation of one of his most famous operas, "Die Fliedermaus." In unaffected and charming manner the director has caught the gayety of pre-war Vienna, and has woven into the operetta the love and laughter and music of those carefree days...
...melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student singers did their parts creditably enough but most of the Erskine lines were lost in fuzzy orchestration. Helen's 20th Century ways were described by hippety-hoppety jazz. The love waltz might have served for a routine in a banal musical show...
Director Busby Berkeley to make three chorus girls out of one and to turn a waltz routine into something that resembles a panorama painting of an army on the march. Songs in Wonder Bar are superior to those which Al Jolson sang in its stage version in Manhattan four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin...
...bubbling over with rhythm. You know, I never could figure out why they called it the "400" till I tried to learn it. Then I decided it was because there were 400 different steps to it. The Rhumba -- that's really a hot dance, too, and the NRA, a waltz named after the Recovery Act is another new step that's pretty sweet. Thank the Lord we don't have some of the vulgar dances they used to have like the "Grizzly Bear," and the "Rocking Chair...