Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supplied with an entirely new program of music and surrounded by an exceptional ensemble of dancing beauties, Paul Whiteman, lately called "the jovial Premier of Ultra-Modern Music" and his 33 piece band inaugurated their second week as the feature stage attraction at the Metropolitan yesterday. Those who did not see the jazz-makers last week, as well as those who did, for that matter, should not miss this remaining opportunity, as both band and leader are even better than formerly in a lavish revue, with special settings, lighting effects, and costumes. The famous orchestra is the nucleus...
...Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut at the Metropolitan (Otto Kahn, Chairman), opera-devotees would again make puns about "You Kahn or you Kahn't," or "What's the matter with Witwer...
...that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois but also a proportionate amount or that something known as "it." To say the least, he and his music fill the mammoth Met stage as it has never been filled before with beats and throbs and sobs of soulful syncopation. In fact, Paul, surrounded by a more admirable bevy of beauties...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
Pola Negri, one of Hollywood's choicest importations, is the reason for going to the Metropolitan this week, if one is not of that ever increasing Publix contingent which just loves to put Gene Rodemich on a pedestal and applaude his numerous gyrations. However, to give Gene credit, he does surround himself with a some-what more entertaining group than usual to celebrate his "Hall and Farewell" performances. Now that he is leaving Boston, for a while at least, the reviewers will have to give more attention to the feature film at the Babylonish picture palace...