The Casa Loma Orchestra was also the first white band to feature jazz instrumentals consistently, rather than playing politely arranged dance tunes with an occasional hot solo.
As the country's favourite English rose for nearly 20 years, you're still mostly associated with playing politely spunky young British women in nice frocks.
Pat Rowe's play tiptoes politely through a story that should plunge us into a joy just a step away from horror.
But keeping a hunt club up and running also requires other things: land, and lots of it; the good graces of the people who own it; the skill of getting everyone to play together politely and, of course, money.
He teaches, plays tennis, politely rebuffs friends and, during one bravura scene, engages in a bout of raucous sex across a hardwood floor with another lover, Serap (Nazan Kesal).
The first two plays were politely received; the Chekhov production attracted rapturous notices.
And for nearly a decade the Flea has allowed Mr. Gurney's spleen a stage on which to play, pounce and politely bare its fangs.
If someone wants to play Nostradamus, listen politely and flee.
"Are they good yet?" asked the coach, who once played professionally, pausing politely.
