Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated jangling of a telephone bell. The costumes are modern. Mary Garden wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally...
Best new pantomine was the Victorian "Piq-Nique," illustrating a hoopskirted female terrified of spiders, fishing worms, the cold brook; awed by the imaginary male recumbent under an umbrella. In "Webs," an overintellectualized conception, Miss Enters struggled ineffectually with the jazz age, moved hysterically to a Symphony" potpourri of and Cesar "Papa Franck's Loves "D Mama," Minor ended up on one knee like Al ("Mammy") Jolson...
Best art directing?Herman Gosse (The King of Jazz...
...what you find more academic about the School of Drama (which is not a part of the University) than the Department of Naval Science and Tacties? Is there anything abstrusely pedantic about footlights, jazz, spangles, and immorality glorified under the name of art? If drilling has no place in a college of Liberal Arts, then Geology field trips do not belong here; the Physical and Chemical laboratories should be converted into additional libraries; compulsory Freshman exercise, and in fact, all activities of the H. A. A. should be immediately stopped because they, alas, are not academic! Yours truly, Eugene...
Phoebe Foster, brunette and beauteous, having creditably acquitted herself in Topaze, The Jazz Singer, Interference, deserves a far better part than playing a Park Avenue Lady Windemere in such an inane piece as That's The Woman. So does the rest of an excellent cast...