Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson reporter. "Interpretive dancing has just started in this country; 80 years ago not a dozen people would go to see the same type of performance with which we are now able to fill houses all over the country. Of course it will always be less popular than modern jazz for it can never become a common type of dancing. Popular dancing such as the modern fox trot must be essentially simple so that it can be learned easily...
...Statler, hotel operator: "My son Milton likes jazz and he can play the traps. Last week he proposed to me that I let his friend, young Roger Wolff Kahn, furnish dance music for all my hotels for about $1,000,000 a year. I said that I approved his idea, but I told him that I would have to talk it over first with Roger's father, Otto Hermann Kahn...
...Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone in the other direction, proceeded to stir the audience almost to apoplexy with sound alone. He says: "I have tried [in the "Ballet Mécanique"] to express America's tremendous power and energy without writing it in terms of jazz." Composer Antheil, first to propagate a serious appreciation of jazz in Germany, believes it is now on the wane, in form, not in spirit. Yet his favorite composers are Beethoven and Handel...
...spite of tempting glance, Blaring jazz and modern dances And the fact that all their wiles for you are meant. (meant meant...
...Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover on still another. By proper punctuation and emphasis, such a production may be made colorful, clear, rapid, nervous, like jazz music. But, though the new playwrights deserve credit for the enterprise, Mr. Lawson's "farce" fails to enthrall the observer, because: 1) The lines are not pointed artfully enough to evoke laughs in the right places. 2) His characters are not sufficiently personalized. No one cares whether the candidate for Governor...