Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's tour of New England, considered probable Republican territory, comes at the same time his rival, Governor Alfred M. Landon, is campaigning in California which has been put in the Democratic column by many observers. Landon is due to make a swing back over the entire country before election, and the President yesterday intimated that he might undertake a final tour of Pennsylvania and Ohio with a major speech in Indiana...
There will be continuous music from 10 to 4 furnished by Hudson-DeLange and Jack Marshard. The Hudson-DeLange orchestra has gained a wide reputation as a top notch "swing" band. Will Hudson is the composer of "The Organ-Grinder Swing", "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town", "Tormented", "You're Not the Kind", and many other such popular pieces--all of which the band features. Jack Marshard, currently playing at Seller's Ten Acres, is well known around Boston as a society dance favorite...
...John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona fide instance of this item having appeared on the silver screen. NARCISSUS...
...during the Philadelphia Orchestra's cross-country tour (TIME, March 27). He then stopped long enough in Hollywood to appear in Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1937 (see >-67), along with Funnyman Jack Benny, the moronic radio team of Burns & Allen, Jazzman Kenny Goodman and his Swing Band. The Big Broadcast of 1937 had its Philadelphia premiere last week, but Conductor Stokowski's personal appearance was canceled at the request of the Musicians Union of which he is a member. -The world's three foremost orchestras, so rated almost unanimously by critics...
Thank You Jeeves (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the first appearance in cinema of the most famed fictional character created by Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. Herein, Jeeves (Arthur Treacher), fabulously efficient gentleman's gentleman to addle-headed Bertie Wooster (David Niven), teaches a Negro swing musician to play the March of the Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist...