Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving a discussion of the misadventures of jazz in Hollywood to a later column, I am afraid that Broadway has paid even scantier attention to hot music than the film capital. But at least, the stage has not tried to commercialize all music as the movies insist on doing. It would seem that the greater powers of realism, within limits, and of characterization which the theatre still possesses would offer an opportunity to tell a convincing story in which something of the essence of jazz might be reflected. The great obstacle, of course, has been the inclusion of jazzmen, obviously...
...heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...score Boston debutantes, Faculty literati, officers of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, and the old intelligensia will welcome the stage celebrities. We gather from Mlles Baronova, Toumanova, and Riabouchinska, last year's featured guests, that the Bow Street Palace is just like "a little bit of New Russia...
...week sat and lounged all over exhibits and pushed them around with impunity. The visitors enjoyed it because they spent as much time on their rumps as on their feet. The museum did not mind because it was doing its best to boost modern furniture out of the fad stage...
Torchsinger Helen Morgan, piano-sitting favorite of the dry days, had her spleen removed, lay gravely ill in a Chicago hospital. Evelyn Nesbit, stage beauty over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, turned up in a newspaper ad plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...