Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plugged like a new jazz song was the trouser mode for women at last week's show. Having established the once unpopular ensemble, U. S. couturiers are now busy trying to put over the glorified pajama and its offspring, the feminine overall, at least for luncheon, tea, tennis, beach strolling. The opinion of most buyers last week was that part-time trousers for women are just wandering, have gotten nowhere...
Connie's Inn. As in all Negro revues, there are banal scenes on the levee, dingy costumes consisting of overalls with patches on the seats of the pants. Yet for dancing, humor and dynamic showmanship, this is the best venture of its sort since Blackbirds. Best dancing: "Jazz-lips" Richardson (shuffles and sneaks). Best tune: "Ain't Misbehavin...
...Françoise, unlike Anne, has no bent for politics. Her energy is of the 1929 vintage. "In her arms and legs, movement lay coiled, as in the springs of a watch." When Molinoff smokes his fragrant cigarets, drinks his whiskey & soda, she does the same. When he plays Negro jazz records on a phonograph, she sways all over. She looks at Molinoff "with the eyes of a little girl that wants to be played with." But Molinoff, woman's man that he is, will not play with a virgin. He is a Don Juan with a Russian soul...
...Harvardians, well-known undergraduate jazz band, will make an extensive tour of Scandanavia and Germany this summer, it was announced last night by Roy Lamson '29, leader and manager of the orchestra...
Said he: "I would like to produce all the plays of Shakespeare in America. Why doesn't some American magnate try some thing different - Hamlet with Chaplin, for instance, accompanied by good jazz music." Elmer L. Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After 15 years in the theatre I am convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer...