Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operas Vienna, the play exploits the humorous and amorous possibilities of the butcher, baker, candlestick-maker life of the city. In keeping are the simple, cunning, and ludicrous characters, finely, but not brilliantly drawn by actors who show a tendency to overact their parts. The music is jazz, of whch nothing more need be said, relieved by some good waltzes and humorous bits, which Herr Max Hansen sings splendidly. If one understands German, the lines are worth hearing...
...reviewing a week's presentation at the Metropolitan, it is hardly fair to confine one's commentary to the film as the entertainment offered includes a varsity of forms. Johuny Perkins, a man with a big tummy and a jazz orchestra, is showing his "Varsities of 1933." Sample line is the one about the brother down on the farm who seems to get more milk from the cowds than anyone else. Say, has that man get pull! Of course, the Metropolitan is becoming more than a theatre. Dancing in the Grand Lounge affords an agreeable interlude for those Jazz crazed...
Returning to "The King's Vacation" It may be described as an Arliss Success adequately supported by jazz and symphony orchestras, newsreels, and organ, and a dance hall...
Plaudits for giving space to Aux Frontières du Jazz (TIME, Jan. 2), a much-needed book in America and one which we hope will let in the light about true jazz. The "musicians' " jazz band, as opposed to the public's, has never before had a champion. As jazz music auditors become educated they invariably rely on the concoctions and artistry of such as Frank Trumbauer, the Dorsey brothers, the late Bix, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden and Louis (The Great) Armstrong for satisfaction...
...lovers sat in a corner oblivious to the noise around them. Hot, reeling couples packed the dance floor "not much bigger than a dime." Corks popped in a drunken finale. But Night Club had verve, spontaneity, fresh harmonic and rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance on a Dime"-should make song hits as rich as Johnny Green's "Body & Soul," which Torchsinger Libby Holman made famous...