THE BIGGER THEY ARE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 20

THE BIGGER THEY ARE.

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant have been selected to play the leading roles in this picture, which is taken from "Front Page." In keeping with the tradition of previous Howard Hawks productions, such as "Only Angels Have Wings," it has a high note of melodrama, a contrasting mood of comedy, and a romantic motivation. Irene Dunne and Car? Grant, who teamed se successfully in "The Awful Truth," are expected to be a decided success in "The Bigtfer They Are."

rf^NE of the most amazing manifestatibns of the restlessness of American youth today is to be seen in "jitterbug" dancing or "jitterbugging," and contests held all over the country resulted in championship events which were staged at the Palomar in Hollywood- recently. "Jitterbug" dancing has to be seen to be believed; it combines a good deal of the strutting of negro dances with the gyrations of whirling dervishes. In many ways it is less of a dance than an athletic endurance test, beaten out to the throbbing of drums and the shriek of the saxophone, and if seen on the stage as an eccentric turn would probably receive rounds of applause. Two people dancing "jitterbug" is fantastic enough, but when you watch 8000 people stamping, side-kicking, clapping and spinning dizzily on a dance floor so large that in the dim light you can barely see from one end to the other, "jitterbug" assumes the proportion of a nightmare. One "collegiate" * night I took my place among the surging thousands, all moving to the music of Artie Shaw's Band —the Number One Name Band in America which has just received an engagement at a salary of 12,000 dollars for a week next October. COLLEGE BOYS AND GIRLS. » For the most part, the dancers were college youngsters whose ages ranged from 15 or 16 to 20 or 22. They all looked nice young people, and "jitterbug" represented to them the height of excitement. In spite of all the swinging and pulling and high-stepping in which they indulged, these boys and girls had a fine sense of rhythm; or maybe they just liked the band as an accompaniment to their antics. Artie Shaw provided music both "hot" and ."sweet" and it was in the "hot" rhythm that the "jitterbugs" excelled themselyes. Their fervour reached such a pitch of frenzy that I