Word: waltzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes...
...interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct a picture of Professor "Waltz," smoking an unusual under-slung pipe and wearing a hat as he lectures on the Sesenheim idyll. And perhaps correctly they will surmise that the student was bored and undutiful, since he filled the cover with diagrams of football plays...
Answering a query in respect to the trend in music at the present time, Ramona declared, "New York beer gardens are doing as much as any other one factor to effect the transition toward European popular music. They play German and Viennese waltzes almost exclusively, you know, and the public likes them. I'm only surprised that this type of music has not made greater progress already, because New York is certainly waltz-minded; and as New York goes, so usually goes the rest of the country in this respect...