Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...houses were ugly and dirty, narrow and low. Wash lines were strung from window to window across the streets, and all the time heads were wagging behind the drying clothes in interminable conversation. Even for a Frenchman the argot is difficult, if not impossible, to understand. But its rhythm and music are unforgettable and make you love it; and if you hear it in some distant corner of the world, it makes you homesick...
...spectacular sellout, is expected to net at least $5,000. Dressed in grey coats, each with a jet black carnation in his buttonhole, Ellington's 15 musicians played many such Ellington favorites as the Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, Rockin' in Rhythm. Duke affably prowled before his men in his sweeping tails, conducting, adding neat phrases on the piano, introducing his numbers with graceful speeches. His music, as usual, was practically all by himself (with heavy contributions in orchestration and improvising from the boys). It was incandescent, original jazz, sometimes ebullient, sometimes languid, the product...
They are, as Perelman's pieces have been for some years, overformularized; yet even at their most manufactured they have a surface and a perfection of rhythm which little contemporary prose can touch. At their best, they stand with the best of Ludwig Bemelmans and of James Thurber as a shocking commentary on most of the nominally more solid and earnest books being written in English...
...sheer entertainment, "Star-Spangled Rhythm" is one of the most satisfying pictures in ages. It is also such wonderful publicity for Paramount that they'll find it difficult to follow up. They've thrown together nearly every important star in the lot, tossed in a few directors to boot, added a line score, and tied it up with an especially slick script. The girl in the next seat did miss Richard Denning, though...
Star Spangled Rhythm (Paramount) rounds up the stars on the Paramount lot. The show cost $1,500,000, including $500,000 for its high-priced performers' salaries, and it has the biggest all-star cast ever assembled in one picture since the last "biggest all-star cast ever assembled in one picture." This is less remarkable than the producers' feat in finding enough gags to keep them all happy. The picture has few dull moments, adds up to a nothing more and nothing less than a de luxe vaudeville show...