Word: yella
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real Negro jazz music, real dancing and a quality of speed and verve which was unique and refreshing. Strut Miss Lizzie and Liza, which followed, were progressively poorer. The naivete was gone, the speed became a deliberate mechanical effect instead of a natural exuberance, and the delightful " high yella " and " brown skin " flavor, degenerated into a cheap imitation of white musical comedy plus extravagant caricature of the native jazz tradition. How Come, in the opinion of most metropolitan reviewers, is the poorest of the lot. Whatever redeeming quality it has is furnished by Eddie Hunter, the librettist and comedian...
...Control invites all Harvard men and their friends to a conference on "Present International Alignments, Are They Making for Peace or War?" to be held at the Twentieth Century Club, 3 Joy Street, Boston, at 7.30 this evening. The speakers will be Mrs. Pothick Lawrence of England and Frau Yella Herizka of Austria. Admission will be twenty-five cents...