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...until last week was a three-story building, rank with human and culinary odors, which he rented on Manhattan's 115th Street. Why this kingdom had not long since collapsed was the wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good shape, was sold to a black rival-"Bishop" Charles Manuel ("Daddy") Grace. Assessed at $38,000 and owned...
Henceforth, all German girls between 18 and 21 must be members of a league whose name is "Work, Beauty & Faith," whose object is the beautification of women by such proper Aryan measures as physical culture and rhythmic dancing -not however by the use of lipsticks and other cosmetics which are vicious foreign importations...
...exciting portions of the sound track have been re-recorded on discs, last week were put on sale.* Endorsed by Anthropologist George Herzog of Columbia University, these discs constitute the best authentic anthology of African Negro music to be found on commercial phonograph records. Much of this music shows rhythmic resemblances to jazz, includes drums, flutes, xylophones and chanting by long-headed Congo Negroes, by the Mambuti Pygmies, and by the Watusi. a race of 7-ft. African giants living as feudal chiefs in what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious melodies in the manner of change-ringers...
...highbrow U. S. musical figures whose names are known to the U. S. man in the street. Last week his five-year-old suite, Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, received its first public Manhattan performance by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Conductor John Barbirolli. Dark Dancers is pleasant, rhythmic, imitative, is not likely to achieve the popularity that sold over 1,500,000 copies of his song At Dawning, composed 20-odd years...
...encore. One of them was the "Minute" Waltz which Hofmann-his humor not deserting him even on so dressy an occasion-tacked impishly on the end of a languishing Chopin nocturne. No excuse was needed to end the program with one of the works of Michel Dvorsky-a rhythmic, vigorous Chromaticon or "duologue for piano and orchestra." For Michel Dvorsky, as everyone in the audience knew, was Josef Hofmann...