Word: tragedians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well, Ted Lewis, the High-Hatted Tragedian of Song and his Jazzical Clowns finally came on, and we were doubly glad we had come. Who can describe the heart-rending pathos in Lewis's brand of jazz? My roommate, who has just taken Music Divisionals, says that the pianissimo Ted gets out of his brass could show the symphony people something. The Tragedian and the Clowns were running true to form last night, and even encored with Sally in our Alley and When My Baby Smiles at Me; when a Comedy Relief was brought in, like, we almost said...
...superlative feature of the evening was withheld to the very end--Ted Lewis. He is a glorified combination of Pierre Monteux, Walter Hampden, Puck, and Philip Sousa. Ostensibly he is only the leader of a versatile band of jazzy musicians. His title on the program is "the high-hatted tragedian of song, and his musical chorus." But for all his clownishness he has far more real art bottled up inside him than in many a man who scorns the idea of "jazz." Expressiveness is combined with restraint to a degree seldom attained in any kind of a performance...
...fatality which gave a comic mask to a tragedian...
...triumph of a Greek tragedian upon Broadway...