Word: jazzier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were very few in last night's audience who didn't think so by eleven o'clock. Phil Dolan, the third in a succession of hoofing Dolans, emerges as a very aesthetic music professor in a WPA extension university, but his basic urge for nimble footing of the jazzier sort will not be sublimated. With one of his pupils he creates a modern ballet which in a burst of inspiration they entitle "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." In attempting to get his opus staged Dolan becomes involved in the highly emotional group of Slavic ballet artists and many droll things...