Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally, there have clustered together little groups of serious European thinkers to make the same discovery that Americans have made, that Jazz is a great art form. So, since that sort of thing makes him sick, Critic Ernest Newman last week had at it bitterly in his London Sunday Times, saying...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
Music Mostly jazz...
Roger Wolfe Kahn (son of the art-loving banker), who plays the saxaphone, owns ten jazz orchestras, bought Giro's night club...
Normal revue humor on large stages usually depends on the comedian's ability to shout: "That was no lady, that was his wife." In a miniature, satirical show like Americana the attack is subtler. A satire on Rotary Club speeches, a burlesque jazz opera, a tabloid newspaper number, and a burlesque Hamlet done in the manner of The Student Prince are the major features. There are only a handful of chorus girls; each in her time plays many parts. The scenery is by the briskly amusing John Held Jr. Charles Butterworth, Notre Dame 1923 and utterly unknown to Broadway...