Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forthcoming screen version of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The heroine of Madame Wants No Children is a newlywed French wife whom the bleak sphinx, Venetian gondolas and an uxorious spouse cannot dislodge from night clubs. Even at home in Paris her life is a succession of jazz blares, pale lights and glittering stuffed shirts. Eventually, however, she joggles down to productive domesticity, mindful that when Baby does arrive, she will have her own night club...
Edward, fairly caught, laughed among the first; and since then Miss Jones has been an all-licensed Negress. Nightly she coaxes or drags celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight-for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored. Therefore, last week Prince Henry was not irked when Miss Jones sought to draft him as a contestant in an impromptu black bottom contest...
Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
...program tonight will consist of 14 numbers in all. They are as follows: 1. "Oriental Fantasy"; 2. "Sometimes I'm Happy"; 3. "Sunny Disposiah"; 4. "I Can't Believe You're In Love"; 5. "Jazz Me Blues"; 6. "I'll Just Go Along"; "Halleluiah"; 8. "Rose in the Bud"; 9. "Jim Time Blues"; 10. Little Boy, Little Girl"; 11. "Ain't She Sweet"; 12. "Russian Fantasy"; 13. "Old-Fashioned Love"; 14. "Our Director...
...club" in Nogales, Mexico, where, at night, there is dancing, jazz and song, a policeman addressed insulting remarks last week to Señor Rodolfo Calles, 28-year-old son of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles...