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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, but this is largely because of the increased number of sensational plays that is being produced, and is one would only talk the time to look around he would find that an equal number of dramas are being played that are still as fine as those written years ago. It has always been my policy to put on shows to which anyone might take his wife and children and not feel that anything immoral was being shown before them nor anything that should raise questions in the minds of the young people...
Students will not be excused from written work unless these rules are followed...
...write two symphonies. Asked about what tendencies he had observed in modern American music, he said that so much was being composed that it was hard to tell, but that he had noticed a bent toward smoother rhythm and harmony "Since I wrote the rhapsody several pieces have been written in the American idiom, call it jazz, blues or what you will I believe that in a few years classics will appear that could not have been composed anywhere except in the United States...
Gershwin then said that "Rosalie" was the third show he had written this season. "It was composed in six days," he said, "because I was working on "funny Face, too. That's why we are fixing up Rosalie now. Before the opening night in New York six new songs will have been inserted...
...Thomas then related several amusing incidents from his tour. "In Illinois I was introduced as one of the two greatest authors in America, Zane Grey being the other. In Winnipeg my book was called the greatest volume ever written, the speaker quite forgetting the Bible and Shakespeare...