Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...route was to have been traversed in nine days by special Citroen auto mobiles, equipped with caterpillar tractors. Along the route M. Citroën had erected many cheap hotels where native jazz bands were to have amused the transient guests. M. Citroën, highly optimistic, had once said: "A new country is thrown open to auto tourists. Tourists, eager for new sights and new experiences, soon will be able to make this once hazardous trip with ease and dispatch. They will be deeply stirred by the magic of this unexplored land...
...give several of his weird and clever exhibitions. Among the other specialty vaudeville acts will be a piano duet by Donald Frothingham '27 and S. L. Keleher '27, who played together all last year. At the close of the program the clubs will give a dance, supplying their own jazz orchestra under the direction of J. R. Wright '26. The management feels that tonight's program, shorter than that of the last three concerts, will be more satisfactory than the earlier concerts, which were criticized on the score of their length...
...Edgar P. Hill of Philadelphia lamented modern modes in U. S. education. Said he: "We are missing the mark. We are on a sort of merry-go-round. We are in motion and there is plenty of excitement and jazz music, but we are getting nowhere...
...Special Jazz Orchestra Will Play...
...special attraction of the performance will be the Specialty Jazz Orchestra, which won an "almost international reputation by its European trip last summer, when it played before the Spanish Royal family and at many noted resorts...