Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only that, but there was a new situation, namely a jazz-orchestra kidnapped and forced to entertain bored desperadoes. That was rather exciting, and of course it seemed excruciatingly so because of the very clever contrast of dullness with which Mr. Zukor filled the first nine-tenths of the film...
When sound movies first came in a good many years ago it was Al Jolson in Vitaphone's "The Jazz Singer" who put the new fad across. And it's the same old Al at the Met this week. The old boy still has that spark that makes you believe it when he says "You ain't heard nothing' yet." "Go Into Your Dance" is the feature of a good program from start to finish...
...first eight stories form a series of panels on the jazz-age adolescent, of both sexes-Author Fitzgerald's version of the Tom Sawyer-Penrod legend. Some others...
...Friday the Sodality will hold its annual dance at Longwood Towers, varying the classical tone of their concerts by spending the evening dancing to the jazz of Jack Francis and his orchestra...
...still comes to all his fights. Lou Ambers has lost only one of his 46 professional bouts. Merciless in the ring, he dislikes watching fights because their brutality gives him insomnia, makes him sick. His ambition is to organize his nine brothers and sisters, all musically inclined, into a jazz band in which he can play banjo and clarinet. Before his fight with Champion Ross, he plans a "warmup bout" with ex-Champion Tony Canzoneri...