Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Warning and his mad, merrymaking Pennsylvanians top the bill at the Metropolitan Theatre this week with an hour of swing punctuated by the informal capers of the orchestra. On the screen Mae West plays the rather weak part of a confidence girl with an honest heart in "Every Day's A Holiday...
Other impressions of Every Day's A Holiday: snowy-haired Charles Winninger in typical foxy grandpa mood, Negro Swing-Trumpeter Louis Armstrong leading a torchlight procession, the plushy mustiness of the turn of the century, and a few gags, all mothered and murmured by Miss West. Typical examples: Q. "You mean he made love to you?'' A. "Well, he went through all the emotions. . . ." "Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you. . . ." "She's not as strait-laced as she's laced...
Fourteen years ago, about the time Benny Goodman was doing imitations of Ted Lewis in a Chicago vaudeville house, Paul Whiteman & band gave a jazz concert in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall. What it lacked in sincerity as a strictly jazz presentation, it made up in salesmanship, for swing music was launched on a profitable era. Last week, swing having been to the dog house and back as far as national appreciation is concerned, Benny Goodman, a far more serious artist than Mr. Whiteman and one of the principal reasons that swing came back, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall...
...band had recorded. Also played was the celebrated set piece Sing, Sing, Sing, notable for demoniac Gfene Krupa's imperious drum beat and Teddy Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though the boys were not going to get off. Then...
...band that would please swingsters and waltzers alike. COLLEGIATE DIGEST is particularly proud to be the nation's first publication to honor these men of note in this manner and we only wish we could get them all together to entertain you at a super-deluxe swing session...