Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vechten, pioneer literary drumbeater for U. S. Negroes. Author Van Vechten had just been to a vaudeville house in Newark, N. J. to hear the greatest of Negro blues singers, Bessie Smith. Vanity Fair added an innocent editorial note to his article: "Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height of her career, making nearly $2,000 a week. Last September...
...Louis Blues, simple and powerful, and Reckless Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller...
...Love I'm After (Warner Brothers). Five days before this picture's Manhattan opening, discreet advertisements appeared in the columns of all papers except the chaste Times. They read: "If it's love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from...
...miss much if you don't go to the Memorial this week, although Robert Benchley and Robert Montgomery are milding amusing in "Live, Love and Learn." The other picture, "Madame X" is worth being paid to stay away from, and if you do get up the courage to stick through it, they'll be not a few moments when you'll want to scream lustily...
...love I'm After," the current attraction at the Metropolitan, turns out to be one of the maddest and most riotous farces of the season. It moves along at a terrific pace and permits the audience no rests between laughs...