Word: rhythm
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Sometimes the poem, submitting too much to manner, misses the rhythm which its theme imposes; equally often it rises, with an orchestration of dark vowel music, thrusting cadences, rich rhymes dexterously jarring, to utterance that will stamp Mr. MacLeish, young Boston Irishman, as an important poet to all those who attach importance to perfection of expression...
...first song hit was I Was So Young, You Were So Beautiful. Others: Swanee, I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise, Do It Again, I Won't Say I Will, Somebody Loves Me, Fascinating Rhythm. Last winter, he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue. In a jazz theme, announced by full orchestra, the immortal Liszt, with a diamond in his dinner-shirt, collapses, babbling, on a night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care...
...voice is sweet and compelling, and her stage presence graceful and unaffected. Mr. Fred Hildebrand dances eccentrically and sings far from badly, and together with Miss Wynne Gibson, his irrepressible dancing partner, does some excellent clowning. The chorus is young and enthusiastic, although it lacks that driving rhythm in its steps which only comes with long training. The only sour note in the whole performance is a contortionist dance which is about as grotesque and unsightly an exhibition as this reviewer has ever seen. There is nothing artistic, or even amusing, about the disjointed writhings and ghastly abnormalities...
PROCESSIONAL-The last week of this peculiar experiment in expressionism. Murder, hunger and rape set to a strange jazz rhythm...
...their sense of rhythm that enables them to get those difficult steps. And they get their rhythm from ballroom dancing. Every man must know how to dance now. That makes them more graceful than boys used...