"The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a Dry Martini you always shake to waltz time."
- Nick Charles - William Powell in the movie “The Thin Man” - 1934
Nora Charles & Nick Charles - Myrna Loy & William Powell (getting direction from W. S. Van Dyke while James Wong Howe, lighting cameraman, far left, observes) in the movie “The Thin Man” - 1934