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...yas, yas!" the big Negro was saying in time to the music as we fell up the stairs and fell in the door. There was action, it was going, we were digging. Marco in his beard in a corner yelling drunkenly and ripping the insides out of the piano. Three people stripped to the waist and wrestling in another corner. And the music roared up in great billows and explosions of sound, washing over all of us, filling the room like a gas, putting...
...Mama you look so fine Ridin' around in that Merc'ry forty-nine, Cause I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Yas, I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Ford...
...need not have worried; the critics were "kind"; Kuniyoshi's artist friends, who call him "Yas" (for Yasuo), were jubilant. What gloom there was, and there was plenty, emanated from the pictures themselves...
...Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing-'La-Lal-la'-Mommon say to Pappa, 'Felix, me, I cannot wait for that ballet...
...believe us? Well, where do you think those lilting refrains emanate from every Monday and Wednesday nights? Yas, sub, from none other than our own swing band. Who's in it, and where do they come from? Well, stand at ease, fella, and we'll tell ya. Thus far we've got five pieces--now wait a second, wuddya mean they probably don't sound so hot with only five fellas? Listen, skipper, each one of those jive bugs is an orchestra in himself. You still don't believe it? O.K., just name a man in these parts...