Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hogging channels assigned to weak Southwestern U. S. radio stations. Last fortnight Mexico's Department of Communications issued an order suspending XER for 30 days. Resourceful Dr. Brinkley got a restraining injunction, went on broadcasting by remote control. A higher court quashed the injunction. Still cowboy songs, jazz and unctuous medical advice continued to gush out from...
Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...
Most encouraging evidence that the jazz epoch has become history is the improved quality of the current radio broadcasts. Not that the ether is purged to a dull intellectualism, as those who have listened to recipes for cheese custard, and Swedish discuses, will be the first to deny. We still have our "mauvaises quatres d'heure" of advertising belch, Irish minstrels, and Poet Princes...
...reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...
...Sweet Adeline harmonization, and dominant-seventh Amens, and too much tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else, during the Lessons and prayers. What is to be done? Tell him in the gentlest, but most priestly manner, that all these tricks of the jazz radio organist are utterly out of place in church, and annoy everybody but the man who is guilty of them. Tell him that the church service is a very serious matter, and neither the time nor place for such vulgarisms. "Despairing Pastor" could not have voiced his troubles to a more...