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...gimmick" is a person who puts a price tag on everything he sees and a label on everything he thinks. Most musicians pride themselves on not being gimmicks. To differentiate themselves from this clan, they wear their hair longer; their neckties, their phrases, are more picturesque. The only criticism they fear is the accusation that they fear criticism, that they are trying to make themselves as gimmicks are. Not so Vincent Lopez, famed jazzbo. Music, he says, should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food...
...clan is a theatre in Paris where M. Millerand made a famous speech in 1919 when the Bloc National was formed...
...manner of the entrance was entirely Millerandian. As President of a newly-formed National Republican League, successor to the Bloc National, whose birthplace was the Ba-ta-clan* and whose epitaph was written in the May elections, M. Millerand, backed by 13 of his faithful henchmen, stood not on the order of his coming. In language, pointed and strong, he denounced the Herriot Government in a carefully prepared manifesto. He objected...
...Brownies were always up to something. They went to school, they visited the zoo, they disported themselves in gymnasiums, they travelled. The only rule of their clan was that nothing could ever be repeated. Once they became stranded on an island far from shore. They could not get off by building a boat because they had done that before, and the rule was not to be broken. How were they to escape ? Innumerable American children sorrowed; nurses worried; mothers wrote, letters to Mr. Cox. At last he thought of a way to save them; birds flew over from the mainland...
Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...