Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Otto, oldest son of Kaiser Karl; some say for a King who is yet to be elected. The problem is, however, satisfactorily settled for the time being by electing Yankee Jeremiah Smith as financial king-a Yankee at the Court of the Habsburgs or, in the parlance of jazz, a Yankee-doodle doing...
...stuff that Jimmy Hussey has to do. Thin and strikingly Semitic for an Irish youth (which he really is), he has a way of making you laugh. His present lines and lyrics prove his skill; you laugh anyway. Cortez and Peggy dance, and have danced better. There is a jazz band that plays long and loudly. Two or three seasons ago, this was a good novelty...
...Step. It is not impossible that this play, shorn of about 20 character, focussed to pick out the lights and shadows, and rewritten with a feeling for the jazz dialect, might be a pert and serviceable entertainment. In its present form, it is diffuse, dreary...
There was a good performance as the jazz lad by Eric Dressier...
Throughout the whole rasps the strains of a jazz orchestra. Much of the dialog is written in the jumpy idiom of jazz. The several scenes are mostly bizarre paintings on flat drops. Exits and entrances are made from the orchestra pit. Even the stage-door alley beside the auditorium is employed for off-stage movements of the noisy...