Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millions whose musical sense has been awakened by Damrosch. They will have forgotten that it was Damrosch who first introduced to the U. S. such composers as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov; such artists as Kreisler, Lilli Lehmann, Paderewski; that Damrosch, first of the important conductors, took stock of jazz and siphoned it off for the seriously musical to take or leave as they would; that Damrosch first took his orchestra on the road, to cities and towns which knew no music; that it was Damrosch who 20 years ago inaugurated symphony concerts for children...
...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...
Princess Setsuko was a bright student at a Quaker school in Washington. Often she sped in her automobile on Washington's broad avenues. She played tennis or swam at exclusive country clubs. Often she dances. She likes jazz...
...persuades him to return to Broadway. Marcus has been looking for him. He joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...
...piece is nice entertainment, yet all encomia of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool must be leavened by one fact, in justice to cinemactors, legitimactors: to play a part is one thing, to play a part which has been written around an actor's career is something else again...