Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate education by radio, disagreed with B. B. C.'s Director Reith. He said radio has "brought about ways in which the public can be entertained and also instructed which probably never would have evolved from the heads of the very best-intentioned government officials. . . . Time will de-jazz the radio and make it more literate and substantial. The musical toy stage of the radio has about passed...
...movie camera. Back in London he invited numerous peers and bigwigs to view his films, projected them himself with a Bell & Howell projector. H. R. H. smokes U. S. cigarets, plays golf with Walter Hagen clubs, shows a marked dancing preference for U. S. young women, plays U. S. jazz on his saxophone, and as Empire Salesman "threw" for South American bigwig prospects at least one major salesman's drinking party of approved, standardized U. S. pattern, at Vina del Mar, Chile (TIME, March...
...Jazz Singer Al Jolson, son of a cantor, received his early training in rhythmic, highly-colored Chassidic chants. † Last week Dr. Holmes listed the "ten greatest women of today," as follows: Jane Addams, "greatest among modern women"; Theosophist Annie Besant; Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution"; Scientist Mme Marie Curie; Anarchist Emma Goldman; Helen Keller, "most perfectly triumphant of women"; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mme Sarojini Naidu, "first among Indian women"; Margaret Sanger, "indomitable advocate of birth control"; Authoress Sigrid Undset...
...Much Promise? Arthur Holly Compton (U. of Chicago) asked: "Is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have been working for. ... Is our science any more likely to last than the science of the ancient Greeks? Democritus thought he had solved the problem as to what, the world is made of and how. Yet around his atoms was staged the first great fight between science and philosophy. And Socrates and Plato, the opponents of science, won that fight. Greek science failed, though the civilization based upon it survived. Was this...
...Laemmle lords it in his own Universal City, outskirt of Hollywood, proudly watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions...