Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well, Ted Lewis, the High-Hatted Tragedian of Song and his Jazzical Clowns finally came on, and we were doubly glad we had come. Who can describe the heart-rending pathos in Lewis's brand of jazz? My roommate, who has just taken Music Divisionals, says that the pianissimo Ted gets out of his brass could show the symphony people something. The Tragedian and the Clowns were running true to form last night, and even encored with Sally in our Alley and When My Baby Smiles at Me; when a Comedy Relief was brought in, like, we almost said...
...hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern...
...plot is not the point. It is Fields with his delightful German accent who carries the show. Even the saddest situations, handled by this popular pet of the last decade, become the subject of uncontrolled mirth. The scene in the office of Al Tyler with off-stage jazz bands, is a true picture of the slapdash production of vaudeville and musical belly-wash by the mighty morons of the "continuous." This scene allows the introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing...
There was also a piece called The Evolution of Dixie, which fooled around with that stirring tune, but never actually played it through-and there was John Alden Carpenter's Krazy Kat ballet, an evocation in mild-mannered jazz of Herriman's immortal comic animals. This last composition has a good chance of becoming a real American classic. It represents many of our national ideals...
...Program for the evening follows: 1. Winter Song Bullard O Susannah Foster Glee Club 2. Medley of Popular Songs Arranged by Rice Banjo club 3. Specialty Jazz Band 4. Trailing Arbutus Garbett Chansonette Friml Mandolin Club 5. My Bonny Lass Morley Who Did Glee Club Quartette 6. Football songs Arranged by Childe Australia Arranged by Hancock Glee Club 7. Piano Solos Sleepy Keleher Up and Down Keleher J.L. Keleher'27 8. Along the Old Lake Trail Tierney March Bigelow Banjo Club 9. Violoncello Solos A Good-bye Hyts Song Without Words Mendelssohn-Bartholdy R. B. Greenman '27 10. Prayer...