Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jazz music is descending into the final pit of banality by becoming serious. The other evening Paul Whiteman with his Palais Royal band treated Manhattan to a formal jazz recital in a concert hall. It was billed solemnly as a recital of the true and indigenous American music, from which all native American music presumably is to spring. As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes. However, Whiteman made a speech which rang straight from his heart. He mourned and denounced the contempt with which jazz is held...
...Angeles, a white horse, carrying a nude cinema lady enacting Lady Godiva's ride, went wild, threw the lady, stamped on her arm, leaped into the orchestra pit, landed among a crowd of 450 extras...
...upon the scent. Here, I suppose, we shall continue to see, and the country will not fail to take notice of, a proceeding in which we find sick chambers invaded by a jazz band, a ghoulish dance performed on a cemetery and partisan snipers making a rifle pit of the grave of Warren Harding...
Painted People. Colleen Moore has collected for herself so much reputation that her managers, forgetting themselves entirely, let her loose with a surpassingly stupid scenario. It is probable that Miss Moore will know better next time. From the theatre pit she can see herself as others see her?striving desperately with impossible material, and by no means...
...portions of the play in which the mob takes part is extraordinary in several respects. There is but one scene built on the stage, the orchestra is placed behind the stage, and the orchestra pit is covered with broad stairs. Up these stairs the Theban mob race from all parts of the house, streaming down the aisles from every entrance in the orchestra...