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...businessman of artistic ability. True, he inherited the business (mill, railway and shipping supplies), but he did not drop it. He studied music at Harvard and entered his father's office. He met Elgar, pride of England, he studied under Bernhard Zielin, he composed the jazz panto-ballet Krazy Kat for the Chicago Orchestra and continued functioning as his company's vice president. Legerity, wit and polish are the chief characteristics of his music...
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...
...SEVEN LIVELY ARTS?Gilbert Seldes?Harper ($4.00). This annoying but pertinent book would persuade one that slapstick comedy, jazz music, comic strips and Ring Lardner are the most worth-while contemporary revelations of the soul of America, and that the Krazy Kat cartoons are "the most satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Mr. Seldes, whose present occupation is the more unexpected in that he is known as a critic of the major arts, here takes up the cudgels in behalf of the so-called "lowbrow" products...
...Classical writers placed very high with three among the first fifteen. But were the zeros of "un-classicized critics discounted they would place still higher; Aeschylus, for example, now nineteenth would then stand fourth. The cases of tied popularity are enlightening. Dr. Johnson broke the tape with Krazy Kat; St. Augustine, Lenin, and Douglas Fairbanks were triple-tied: Flo Ziegfeld and Frederic the Great matched; and Geraldine Farrar and Henry Ford mated...
...both director and leader, will give a performance at the Shubert Theatre this afternoon at 3 o'clock for the benefit of the American Friends of Musicians in France and the Municipal School of Music at Rheims. Among other numbers will be John Alden Carpenter's jazz-pantomime "Krazy Kat" after the cartoon of that name. Mr. Bolm has acquired prominence by his work in the Imperial Russian Ballet and has won considerable success in this country for his performances of "Coq d'Or" and "Petrouchka" with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York...