Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more naturally cinematic films with music that have been successful. "The Dance of Life," which is the screen edition of the play "Burlesque," is typical of this school and really set the model for it. The vogue has been so successful that such wildly inferior pictures as "Broadway Scandals," "Jazz Heaven," and "The Song of Love," while far from smash hits, seem likely to show a profit merely because they meet that popular demand for song and dance with a touch of the Laugh, Mrs. Clown, Laugh manner...
...moment or so to indulge in just a trace of satire. There is for example the episode when Mr. Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb and lethargic Swedish tackle becomes the hero of the battle because his sweetheart playfully pots him with...
...Everybody Happy? (Warner). One of the most popular acts of stage orchestras used to consist in the leader telling the audience that he was going to play a classical piece and a jazz piece and asking everybody to show by the way they clapped which one they liked best. A variation of that idea has been arranged for Ted Lewis in the form of some nonsense about an old Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress...
...Lewis was one of jazz's first jazzbos. He was playing the clarinet crazily in Earl Fuller's band in Rector's restaurant, Manhattan, when he began to make money. Until then his antics had always got him into trouble. His father made a good living running the ladies bargain store in Circleville, Ohio. Young Lewis went over to Chillicothe in the street car every night to play in the high school band. Of Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry...
...remarkably leisurely, tranquil play, with none of the rapid pace and high tension upon which many productions rely for their effect. Coming like an old-fashioned waltz in the midst of a jazz program, it takes a little while to become adjusted and for some may seem slow and dull. But for those who can make the transition, there is beauty and wisdom in store...