Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical, young man, go musical," said Paul Whiteman, genial kind of Jazz, in his dressing room yesterday between shows of his radio stage revue in current Boston presentation, and by the same token added "Go college, young musician go college...
American music as differentiated from the purely classical product or that of the "Jazz Age," is, he pointed out, now receiving the recognition of intelligent audiences in addition to that of the bourgeois following. Intelligent audiences demand intelligent and gifted entertainers, a fact which naturally gives the well-educated college graduate an advantage over the musician risen from the ranks...
...role in a musicomedy and for once, does not succeed. Nor does she jilt her bumpkin boy friend (Douglass Montgomery), although for a moment or two it seems likely that he will succumb to the wiles of Gloria Swanson. Instead of Broadway, the scene is Bavaria and instead of jazz the music is a sort of operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly...
...months have statesmen of the Great Powers striven so hard and so confusedly as they strove last week, turning the concert of nations into a jazz symphony of Peace & War, now sweet, now wild...
Washington's Lieutenant-Governor Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, onetime jazz bandmaster who campaigns for a hostess on every street car, began a book: "They laughed when I picked up the gavel...