Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season opened last week with a mediocre performance of Moss Hart's "The Great Waltz." The dancing was above par, but the singing and acting were disappointing. This week The Circus is presenting "Bloomer Girl," and in successive weeks, "The Student Prince," "Annie Get Your Gun," and "Finian's Rainbow" will be performed...
Loud Roars. Beginning with the Adagio from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Ulanova, with muscular Partner Juri Kondratov, sparkled through a rigorous program with top polish and variety: a selection from Schumann's Carnaval, Chopin's Waltz No. 7, a bit from Glière's Red Poppy, Death of the Swan to music by Saint-Saëns, and an overawing acrobatic finale, Rubinstein's Waltz. Each number drew loud, continuous roars...
After crowning as "The Tennessee Waltz Queen" Singer Patti Page (whose recording of the song has found more than 2,500,000 buyers), Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning stepped on stage at Loew's State in Memphis to join her in a duet which won the heart of the governor's harshest critic in another field: Memphis Boss Ed Crump. "The governor," observed Crump, "is a much better singer than politician...
...goods 6% cheaper for cash. "A misleading claim," snapped Executive Vice President Louis Broido. "Nobody can continuously undersell everybody else on everything by 6% or 60% while rendering equivalent services . . . Every thinking person knows [this] just isn't true." But Gimbels didn't quit the price marathon. "Waltz us around again Willie," sang its ads. "If somebody plays the tune, we'll dance and dance . . ." Macy's didn't get tired, either, kept cutting prices...
Conventional student concerts usually include a fast, land overture, an isolated movement from an isolated symphony, a Stephen Foster medley, and a waltz by Johann Strauss. The inevitable "small but enthusiastic" audience consists of members of the faculty, parents of the performers, and a handful of erstwhile Babbitts searching for culture...