Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMINAL CODE?Arthur Byron magnificent in a play about...
...Everybody Happy? (Warner). One of the most popular acts of stage orchestras used to consist in the leader telling the audience that he was going to play a classical piece and a jazz piece and asking everybody to show by the way they clapped which one they liked best. A variation of that idea has been arranged for Ted Lewis in the form of some nonsense about an old Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress...
...Lewis was one of jazz's first jazzbos. He was playing the clarinet crazily in Earl Fuller's band in Rector's restaurant, Manhattan, when he began to make money. Until then his antics had always got him into trouble. His father made a good living running the ladies bargain store in Circleville, Ohio. Young Lewis went over to Chillicothe in the street car every night to play in the high school band. Of Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry...
...they go out to their country club to play golf or polo, the well-to-do of Buffalo pass a militant group of stone buildings to which they point with constantly increasing pride as the University of Buffalo. Not many members of the country club are alumni of the University. But in the past decade the University had increasingly entered the country club's consciousness, through the good offices of that potent Cornell alumnus-trustee, liberty-loan driver, reparations expert, friend of Owen D. Young, "double" of Governor Roosevelt, lawyer (Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass) and banker (Marine Trust)-Walter...
...York University said it had never thought of keeping flashy Quarterback Myers, a Negro, out of the game with Georgia (TIME, Nov. 11). It was explained by a reliable doctor that Myers did not play because he had "damaged severely the acromio-clavicular ligaments of his left shoulder." When Paris of Georgia forward-passed.in the second half for two scores N. Y. U. rooters held up a sign, "We Want Myers." But Myers was not even on the bench. N. Y. U. 27. Georgia...