Word: jazzing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Came the army to Bristol, first stop, where the good citizenry served tea to the foot-weary marchers and where pretty girls coaxed the younger marchers to trip a measure of jazz dancing with them. Later, the rolling kitchen got busy and soon after night fall a one-legged war veteran was serving hot food to the cry of "roll up"-the equivalent of the U. S. "come...
Boston Opera House--George Jessel in "The Jazz Singer"--8.15 o'clock...
They were not a crap-shooting, Jazz-singing jury, like the one that tried Mr. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
Music at the Copley-Plaza will be furnished by the Meyer Davis Society Orchestra of Washington, D. C., and by the Barybary Coast jazz band of Dartmouth. Bert Lowe, in person, and his 20 piece Hotel Statler Orchestra will play for the Statles...
...Jazz Singer. Two seasons ago Manhattan and other cities witnessed approvingly the theatrical tale of a Jewish boy who wanted to go on the stage instead of into his church. His orthodox old father fumed gently, having trained him for a cantor. But circumstance and the boy's yearning for the footlights made him in the end a singer of jazz for the world that lives at night. George Jessel, a jazz singer from revue and vaudeville, played the part and made his name as a straight actor. But in making the picture Mr. Jessel was passed over...