Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Place Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
Recently returned from the picturesque Dartmouth Carnival. Don Gahan's flashy jazz band will "swing it" for the first Freshman dance of the new year in the Union at 8:30 o'clock this evening...
...perennial and expensive effort to make a Grace Moore out of Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone there to complain about...
...Duchin, Eddy Prod., Inc. (jazz...
...this and the following reviews of popular records the column will be divided into reviews of dance and jazz pieces. Each disc will be judged according to the standards of its group. The system of marking is: *poor, **fair, ***good, ****excellent...