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...company and the book is most racial it is most satisfactory and most exceptional. If lessons can be learned from the Moscow Art Theatre in the matter of ensemble work in production, lessons can also be learned from the negro writers, musicians, dancers, and comedians in the matter of "pep" and chorus dancing. The standard of snappy, rapid-fire musical comedy production in this country is set by George M. Cohan. His theory is that if his productions go off with a sufficient amount of dash, have the necessary contagious "pep", the audience will not have time to think very...
...across", by Greenlee and Drayton as few songs are ever done, with a limitless enjoyment by audience and actors alike, with syncopation in voice and gesture, and with humor in attitude and tonality. Throughout the dancing stands out, "Liza" is a dancing show. The finales are parables of pep. The cast is fairly popping with pep. And the orchestra, with rhythmic and clever orchestration, catches the spirit of jazz triumphant; "blues" paramount, and echoes it in syncopations of variety and charm...
...purpose of his work, Professor Sherman begins with the essay which gives the book its title. As a jumping-off point, he describes a "boosters dinner" which has been thrown into consternation by the representative of the arts who refuses to have anything to do with the apostles of "pep and progress". The dinner incident past, we have the author's own point of view. Firmly yet gently, he would lead the talent of America from the footsteps of W. L. George, Theodore Dresier and Mr. Spingarn. Instead he would have them turn to Emerson and Whitman and Thoreau. Produce...
...right start is found in American "moral idealism." We are never quite sure what "moral idealism" is. In some mysterious way, Professor Sherman shifts his point of view. Reading these later essays, we discover that all the time he has been trying to reconcile the apostles of "pep and progress" and the young people who look for a means of "self-expression." He would have the former realize that literature is a great force in the nation, that it has a place in the State University along with the science of making a hundred bushels of wheat grow where...
...earthquake. They even went so far as to whip Voltaire's poor old-Candide because he had merely seen a Portuguese eat a piece of bacon. Now it is the astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even the most modern of our office buildings...