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He uses for his purpose a tall and self-willed horse of the Tudor period a horse with those high dormer effects and a sloping mansard. This horse must have been raised, I think, in the knockabout song-and-dance business. Every time he hears music or thinks he hears it he stops and vamps with his feet. When he does this my friend bends forward and clutches him round the neck tightly.
I put my foot on the brass rail and said to Billy Magnus, the best bartender in the diocese: "Billy, you've lived in New York a long time what kind of a song-and-dance does this old town give you?
"When the baby was two years old, Ralph Murdaugh died, after a long illness which ate up the little they had been able to save. His wife, destitute and unable to support the child in any other fashion, turned to her old profession; she became what was known as a song-and-dance artiste at a hall named for its owner, 'Jake's'.
She can't cook, but she can do a song-and-dance that's worth its weight in gold when you're down in the mouth. Just then I looked out of the window and saw my mother-in-law coming in. For a minute I was frightened.
Just before we came out, it could play nothing but that famous song-and-dance tune that London went mad over at the Jollity in June is raving over still, I believe! Can't give you the exact title of the thing, but 'Darling, Will You Meet Me In The Centre Of The Circle That The Limelight Makes Upon The Floor, Tiddle-e-yum? would meet the case.
"Now, the scene in which we take exception to Miss Carroll's acting is called the 'gorilla dance. She is costumed to represent a wood nymph, and there is a great song-and-dance scene with a gorilla played by Mr. Delmars, the comedian. A tropical-forest stage is set. "That used to get four and five recalls.
The hand-clapping and thigh-smiting of primitive savages in a state of crowd-excitement, the song-and-dance before admiring spectators, the chorus of primitive ballads, the crowd repeating and altering the refrains, the rhythmic song of laboring men and of women at their weaving, sailors' "chanties," the celebration of funeral rites, religious processional and pageant, are all expressions of communal feeling, and it is this communal feeling "the sense of joy in widest commonalty spread" which has inspired, in Greece and Italy, some of the greatest artistic epochs.
Then he began to realize that with the abundance of food in the swamp, flesh-hunters would not come on the trail and attack him, and he had his revolver for defence if they did. He soon learned to laugh at the big, floppy birds that made horrible noises. One day, watching behind a tree, he saw a crane solemnly performing a few measures of a belated nuptial song-and-dance with his mate.
He, too, was not anxious to spoil the golden days. "Well, as far as I can make out, this business is a sort of song-and-dance act, whacked up for the summer boarders. Disko don't think much of it, he says, because they take up a collection for the widows and orphans. Disko's independent. Haven't you noticed that?" "Well yes. A little. In spots. Is it a town show, then?" "The summer convention is.
Five minutes later he was addressing the Southern girl as "honey," and had informed Jill that he had only joined this show to fill in before opening on the three-a-day with the swellest little song-and-dance act which he and a little girl who worked in the cabaret at Geisenheimer's had fixed up. On this scene of harmony and good-fellowship Mr Saltzburg's chord intruded jarringly.
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