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...then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when she isn't hungry...
...Werrenrath stated that he considered the new English classical jazz as presented by George, Gershwin, worthy of consideration with the best classical music, saying. "In Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, there is nothing more nor less than a classical melody which Gershwin has written in a jazz idiom. I think that this jazz adaptation in no way decreases the merit of the selection, but, on the contrary, any other manner of presentation, for in stance, the classical, would have completely altered the charm of the theme. Then, too, you must, consider that Gershwin speaks well only in a jazz vein...
...musical scene includes, in a conspicuous place, what is known as 'concert jazz' music. Herein, at present, lie great possibilities of American contribution to musical art. Realizing these possibilities, Victor, in conformity with its policy of promoting every worthy musical activity, has encouraged American composers in this idiom with the same enthusiasm that it devotes to the promotion of the classical forms of music...
...There is no doubt in my mind that American jazz is a distinct international idiom, and that the work of such geniuses as George Gershwin and Ferde Grofe will establish this fact," said Paul Whiteman to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, in his suite in Symphony Hall...
...Hassan" is admittedly a three ring circus of costume and character, music and dancing, tragedy and love, couched in a verse tongue foreign to the modern stage, but in an idiom of beauty readily welcome. It is an amalgam of the accepted romantic and aestheic elements so healthily mixed in an atmosphere so familiarly strange that its reception was easily predictable. With such its attraction, the insinuating suggestion that its peculiar pictorial display, which so readily drew workers, may have helped to swell the tide of favor, can but skirt the vulgar...