Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Constance Bennett, wide-eyed prom queen of the jazz age, gold-plated honey of the cinema since 1924's Cytherea, scored heavily in her role as a mother. Now 38, she won for her 14-year-old son, Peter Bennett Plant, a $150,000 cut of the estate left by the second of her four husbands. At present the wife of ex-Cinemactor Gilbert Roland, she first married a University of Virginia boy, had the marriage annulled; next married Manhattan playboy Philip Morgan Plant, got a divorce and a $1 million settlement; next married and divorced the high-styled...
...Playwright Samson Raphaelson, whose Jazz Singer is a corny version of the life many an Alliance alumnus knows...
...radio, Russians are becoming better acquainted with U.S. jazz music. They love it. On last July 4 the nation-wide all-Russian radio featured the music of the late George Gershwin. The Russian appetite for classical music is as hearty as ever...
...reason is not Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...
This was a poor imitation of the sensational Original Dixieland Jazz Band, then making the word jazz famous. But after two years Lewis left Rector's with a reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...