pg. 4:
boet = "brother" or "father"
kaffer = African term for "nigger"
pg. 5:
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
(famous Hollwood dance team)
pg. 6:
Sarah Vaughn - American jazz singer
welfed = welfare
pg. 7:
hiding = beating
pg. 8:
Count Basie = leader of one of the most famous jazz bands
pg. 12:
bum = rear end
pg. 16:
naught = zero
pg. 24:
donkey's ears = many years
(pun on donkeys' ears)
pg. 25:
centified = certified insane
pg. 25:
Joe Lewis - 1938 heavyweight boxing champion
*Rita Hayworth - most famous "pin-up" in WWII*
-Struture of the Play-
Dancing
pg. 10 - phone call # 1
from hospital
already happened
pg. 14 - phone call # 2
Hally calls home
pg. 18 - man of magnitude
ends pg. 23
pg. 23 - flashback
ends pg. 32
pg. 32 - phone call # 3
Hally's mother calls
hally covering machine - there but for the grace o...
Film screenshot from the trailer to Flying Down to...
Original poster for Swing Time (1936).pg. 33 - phone call # 4
Hally calls his mother back
pg. 43 - essay
ballroom dancing championship
event of cultural/historical significance
ends pg. 47
pg. 47 - phone call # 5
Hally's mom calls
-Dancing-
Willie Significant Lines:
pg. 57- "You also hurt yourself."
pg. 57 - "He's little boy, Boet Sam, little white boy. Long trousers now, but he's still little white boy."
pg. 59 - "It's bad. Is all all bad in here now."