Word: waltzed
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...radio crooner's hummmm was last week officially recognized as an undesirable instrument of erotic suggestion. Banned from the national chains was a popular cinemized waltz written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Words...
...time by songs, which may well become as popular as the ones in 42nd Street, called "We're in the Money," "Petting in the Park," "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Forgotten Men." Dance Director Busby Berkeley's most decorative notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks...
...which William H. Woodin, now Secretary of the Treasury, was let in on the ground floor of Alleghany Corp. stock because ''We were thinking of you," Colyumist Broun chortled: "I think that Mr. Woodin ought to go back to his job of composing ballads. ... If the waltz king of the American Car & Foundry Co. wants something in a nice hot fox trot, how about 'My Little Morganatic Miss...
...meeting of the Moscow Workers Theatre Club. They were the case for the negative in a debate: "Is jazz too bourgeois for proletarian Russia?" In the close, airless clubroom the Moscow Boys took up their instruments and played jazz as they had never played before. They played a waltz, then several French and English foxtrots. The young workers, most of whom were hearing jazz for the first time, were exhilarated but confused. Then Tsfasman called for "Ho Hum," popular three years ago in the U. S. When it was finished the audience cried for an encore. Jazzman Tsfasman...
...Chicago Civic Opera two years ago, has immense assurance and an infectious smile which are acceptable substitutes for acting ability. His voice, which loses none of its quality in recording, is so pleasant that you do not object to almost incessant renditions of the picture's otherwise unremarkable waltz theme song. Be Mine Tonight was first made in German by UFA. Gaumont-British sent a supporting cast to Berlin to remake it in English. Universal liked the British version-directed by Russian Director Anatole Litwak-enough to buy the U. S. rights...