Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pairs walking slowly side by side, chained together at the wrists, the odd man lurching along alone, around and around the small roped-off circle before the spectators. Around and around they went, slowly, slowly, sometimes to raucous noise from a jazz orchestra, sometimes only to an inner rhythm of their own, around and around, slowly, slowly. The members of the audience kept close watch on those five faces, haggard with six months fatigue, indisputably young but drawn and lined beyond the power of rice powder and rouge to conceal; the audience watched the faces for signs that would show...
...literature. There is a fair review, with comment, of the trends centering around Flaubert and the Realists, and of the exudations of the followers of Charcot and Freud. The article eventually degenerates into a dissertation on style, with a great deal of maundering on "the passion of the inner rhythm." The worst fault of the piece is the conspicuous absence of a satisfactory answer to the question propounded in the title, and to the other questions raised...
When he wrote "The Last Round-Up" he tried something different. He used a gentle, monotonous rhythm to suggest the easy gait of the cowboy's horse. He broke the lyrics with instrumental interludes for the rider to get his breath, or, in the evening, to strum a bit on his guitar. He violated all Tin-Pan Alley tradition when he let his song ramble moodily along, instead of limiting himself to a cut-&-dried 32-bar chorus. But his publishers were not impressed when he gave them his manuscript two years ago, a rude affair with a simple...
...hand two months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride.* The Paramount audience that day suddenly found itself strangely affected, listened as it would have listened to an old familiar ballad. For the last time Billy Hill's cowboy coaxed...
...President Collier's New York City "Evangeline" Department (Cont'd) Sirs: In re the matter of Mr. Douglas G. McPhee's Sept. 4 comment, may I say: In the heart of New York City, by the shining big sea water, . . . Not the poem "Hiawatha" gave the rhythm of that item Yes, I know Longfellow used it, but not so in "Hiawatha" Couched in "Hiawatha's" meter, this is how you'd read that statement Bottles bought they by the trainload, but the kegs they did not order HAROLD POPPE Forest Hills...