Word: roberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the possible exception of "I won't Dance" in Roberta, the "Cheek to Cheek" number in "Top Hat" is our favorite bit of Astairia. Ginger Rogers still has that faintly sullen expression, and her dancing has improved miraculously since her first faltering steps in the "Gay Divorce...
...elaborate routine with male chorus, copied from one Astaire did in Smiles in 1930; a pretentious "Piccolino," which may or may not turn out to be the "Continental" of 1935-36. Possibly more ingratiating than any of these is an informal scene reminiscent of their best, in Roberta, showing Rogers & Astaire caught in a thunderstorm, arguing with each other by dancing...
...This summer's repertory: Teresina, Rio Rita, Madame Sherry, The Chocolate Soldier, Good News, The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Beloved Rogue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Desert Song, Roberta, Lady in the Window, a world première by Sigmund Romberg...
Here's for superhuman power to the lungs and diaphragm of Roberta Keene Tubman next time she is forced by her loyal Americanism to pit '"The Star-Spangled Banner" against the mongrel "Internationale" [TIME...
...ROBERTA E. WRIGHT...