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...Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably have difficulty in finding a vacant seat...
...conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious, it is continuously funny...
...Andy and, of their singing, as Correll & Gosden. In 1927 both were married. They are completely absorbed by their work; wherever they go they mingle with Negroes to develop their style and substance. Negroes delight in them because they recreate, not burlesque, the Negro attitude and idiom. Those who have seen them broadcast say that they often have to smother their own laughter (Gosden did it once by dousing a glass of water over his head), and they have more than once been observed with tears in their eyes...
...people he writes about are not ladies' men. He continues to write about the hoboes he knew when he was one of them because he thinks it is good for men to know all their brothers and because not one writer in a hundred knows the idiom that he does...
...Last week Judith was given its first U. S. performance by the enterprising Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Soprano Bianca Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music which, if lacking in originality, at least proved him a skilled and energetic workman...