Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selznick International). Doddering Ellen Fortune (Minnie Dupree) is a tender-hearted eccentric who, from an unhappy romance in her youth, has derived the philosophy that the secret of happiness lies in trusting those one loves. The Carletons-card-sharping Colonel Anthony (Roland Young), mercenary Marmy (Billie Burke), fortune-hunting Rick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and gold-digging George-Ann (Janet Gaynor)-are a family of international rogues united strongly by their common belief in and proficiency at the more polite forms of mooching, chiseling and outright thievery...
...first half of 1933-39: Charles M. Rick, Jr., of Cambridge, as Assistant in Biology; Alfred L. Baldwin, of Whittier, Calif, as Assistant in Psychology...
...Dorothy Baker which rather unconsciously contains about the finest description of swing music that could be put into words. It is a short novel, inspired by the playing of an excellent musician in a jazz orchestra who died several years ago, and it merely tells the story of Rick Martin, who found in swing an outlet for artistic expression but at the same time a destructive medium which he could not fit to his life...
...expressive style that is straight-forward and almost conversational Dorothy Baker describes how Rick Martin, a boy with musical talent, naturally turned toward swing music since it was the only music where he lived. There, in the midst of good jazz which, as Miss Baker says, 'comes right out of genuine urge and doesn't come for money," the boy lived and breathed swing and gradually developed into one of the finest trumpeters in the country. Success and money came rapidly but they could not stop Rick, he couldn't stop; he kept on playing-pushing himself beyond the limits...
Therefore, the book in a way marks the limits of swing music. Rick Martin needed jazz and expected too much from it; he kept playing never satisfied, until he could not keep pace with hi sown playing. Yet those very limits show what swing really is; the crazy almost destructive life that goes with it is part of a native American form of art a noisy yet magnetic medium for American creation...