Word: jazzes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults and a small but energetic pit orchestra...
...Smiling faces (the only ones Mr. Knickerbocker saw in Rucsia) all along the Red Riviera (on the Black Sea), the only place where Bolsheviks relax. . . . Silk stockings. . . . Silk dresses. . . . Nude mixed bathing. . . . The only jazz heard in Russia...
...repeated jangling of a telephone bell. The costumes are modern. Mary Garden wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally...
...band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong's Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra. Embraceable You and / Got Rhythm (Victor)-Arden's and Ohman's- percussive ways are best suited to George Gershwin's music. The tunes are the best from Girl Crazy...
...knows how to draw it. The Author. Peter Arno (real name : Curtis Arnoux Peters) is a strapping big 29-year-old Manhattanite. After a year at Yale college, he went to Yale's School of the Fine Arts for a month, and considers the month wasted. Onetime jazz leader for Gilda Gray, he could play the mandolin, the piano in the band. His wife is Lois Long, reporter ("Lipstick") for the New Yorker. They have one daughter (2 years old) who has been vaccinated on her heel so that no one will ever know. Peter Arno's Hullabaloo...