Word: rhythmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkened theatre the blinding spotlight reveals a jazz band in Pierrot costumes. The curtain opens on gaily painted settings, and the lyric intensity of men and women who dance, love, suffer and die, to the casual irony of the bleating rhythm of saxophones...
Sometimes the poem, submitting too much to manner, misses the rhythm which its theme imposes; equally often it rises, with an orchestration of dark vowel music, thrusting cadences, rich rhymes dexterously jarring, to utterance that will stamp Mr. MacLeish, young Boston Irishman, as an important poet to all those who attach importance to perfection of expression...
...last American drama seems to have hit upon a pattern and a rhythm all its own. Breaking away from German Expressionism, our native playwrights are developing a special national technique--a sort of radio-ragtime-phonograph-jazz. Two plays in particular illustrate this latest experimental phase. One is John Howard Lawson's "Processional" which has been the storm center of discussion in New York. The other is a still more extraordinary play by his friend, the novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos, a play that has not yet been acted or published, called "The Moon is a Gong". This...
...first song hit was I Was So Young, You Were So Beautiful. Others: Swanee, I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise, Do It Again, I Won't Say I Will, Somebody Loves Me, Fascinating Rhythm. Last winter, he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue. In a jazz theme, announced by full orchestra, the immortal Liszt, with a diamond in his dinner-shirt, collapses, babbling, on a night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care...
...voice is sweet and compelling, and her stage presence graceful and unaffected. Mr. Fred Hildebrand dances eccentrically and sings far from badly, and together with Miss Wynne Gibson, his irrepressible dancing partner, does some excellent clowning. The chorus is young and enthusiastic, although it lacks that driving rhythm in its steps which only comes with long training. The only sour note in the whole performance is a contortionist dance which is about as grotesque and unsightly an exhibition as this reviewer has ever seen. There is nothing artistic, or even amusing, about the disjointed writhings and ghastly abnormalities...