Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "This Side of Paradise", there was a great hue and cry; when "Flappers and Philosophers" appeared, there was still a hue, and somewhat less of a cry; "The Beautiful and Damned" evoked merely a cry;--the best comment on "Tales of the Jazz Age" is dead silence. However, this space must be filled, and a reviewer cannot write, like Hilaire Belloc, on "Nothing". But we will be brief. Perpend...
...Tales of the Jazz Age" is a compilation of short stories--some better, some worse, but all indifferent--previously published as magazine fiction. It is a volume tendered primarily into the "hands of those who read as they run and run as they read". And this statement by the author sums up the whole proposition very neatly, in that the book is imbued with the "running" fever; the author runs--jazzily, rejoicing in his own self-confessed naughtiness; and the reader runs likewise--mainly in aimless, frantic circles! Until finally both author and reader are hopelessly weary of themselves...
...more than the surface flush of artificial fever is to be looked for, in one who pretends to such a reputation as does the author of the "Tales". In one way, it is true, Fitzgerald is not entirely to blame: he is essentially the product of his age--the "jazz age" if you will--and was as inevitable, in some form or other, as the mediaeval Black Death or the modern poison gas. A spirit that is professedly superficial and light-headed must perforce give birth to its literary parallel; and F. S. F., with his creed of excitement...
Twenty-nine men have been retained by the Instrumental Clubs as a result of the trials Monday and Tuesday nights. These include three cornet players, one trombone player, and seven saxaphone players. The management announces that the work of organizing a jazz band and a saxaphone sextet is progressing rapidly...
Forty-five new men reported last night at the Music Building for the Instrumental Club trials. This in addition to the old members who are back gives the management a larger field than usual from which to make a selection. Two cornets reported for the jazz band, four piano players, and several saxaphones. The successful candidates will be notified Wednesday...