The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-26
IT'S JAZZ TERRIBLE,
SAY BROADWAYITES
Irene Fenwick and Others
Complain Music Keeps Them
Awake to Midnight.
ASK COURT FOR RELIEF
Band in Old st. Nicholas Rink
Must Justify It's Synco-
patiOns Tuesday.

Miss Irene Fenwick-pronounced az
Broadway's highest social circles know,
Miss Ee-ray- nay en-nick--objects to jazz.
So does Auntie Minnie Madden Fieke's
beauteous and talented relative. Niece
Emily Stevens. And as for Composer
Dudley Buck, Dud begs to differ with
Brother Composer Irving Berlin to the
extent OF stating that there amt even
no art into jazz music.
All Of which came to light in the West
Side Court yesterday when Eeraynay'
Emily, bud and many other gifted folks
presented petition. with their expensive
signatures all neatly attached, to- Magls-
trate Thomas Nolan. In II most OF the
geniuses who live In the neighborhood OF
the artistic colony at the upper Sixties
and Central Park West asked that the
manager OF the daily dancing carnival
in the old St Nicholas Rink be sup
pressed At least the gifted petitioners
asked his Honor to suppress the jazz
music In the dancing hall because. they
say. the jazz music is positively I'M
bearable.
Kent Awake TO Midnight.
The noted Broadwayites who signed
the petition did not hesitate to say that
the Jazz dance music which nightly ex-
plodes from the rink dancing "carnival'
kept them awake even as late as mid
night! II almost goes without saying
that II there is one thing which actors
and kindred geniuses well known on
broadway object to 1t is the horror OF
being kept awake after $50 or 10
o'clock at night
M'sieu william Henri Gay of so West
Sixty-seventh street also was among the
petitioners who wanted musical noises
that can be heard by surrounding ten
ants abolished. Msieu Bill Henri is a
singing teacher.
1t seems from the fearful pleas made
TO Magistrate Nolan yesterday by the
suffering aesthetics of the Jazz belt that
all the neIghborhood wants in the way
OF sociul functions Is something on the
order OF the sedate, quiet, seml-silent
unostentatIous, dignified muttied and
reserved Saturday night parties al
which Jim Flagg. Miss Neysa McMein
Harrison Fisher Clara Tice, Mrs. Daisy
Thompson and the rest OF the boys and
girls gather at the neighborhood Cafe
des Artistes. a few doors away. and
shoot their favorite models from Bis
Bertha into fountain OF champagne
and drown the girls amid ripples OF APP
plause.
you can dance TO the jazz" cried
Tsieu Bill Henri Gay, the singinl
teacher, to Magistrate Nolan In cour
yesterday. But you can't sleep to 1t
If it please your Honor. That jazz. jazz
jazz jazz, she is terrible. She is worse
Judge-she is even unpleasant"
In perfect harmony with Singing
Teacher Bill was Composer bud. Mr.
Buck also being in court as one Of
the occupants OF the apartment house a
co West Sixty-seventh street, or JUS
back Of the jazz rink, which in turn Is
in the heart OF a neighborhood which
because OF its extreme intellectually, Is
rapidly becoming known as Little Green
witch Village
Wonder All JazEed Away.
Il tell you, Judge" composed bud as
he arose before Magistrate Nolan, "tht
apartment house in which so many Of
US live was, until the jazz started last
October, simply wonderful. Now IS
just Jazz. Something must be done
Judge, Or"
We'll, Nj Buck" murmurred tbs
Magistrate when art meets art"
Art" cried bud Buck. in scorn 3
whitening that It was almost clear
case Of contempt OF court and bud
turned toward the twenty-nine other
conplainants in court with wan looH
that plainly said. Fellows and girls
can you beat this here guy'' But &c
the Magistrate bud merely sighed pity
ingly. Jazz may It please your Honor
is not art =!
Magistrate Nolan plainly was touched
20 much 60 that many Of the Rsthete!
present plainly expected him to call out
TO a court cop, Cassidy, dust of th'
electric chair =" and forthwith put the
rollers under every player OF jazzer now
jaEzing Instead Magistrate Nolar
cogitated a moment and then he picked
on the we'll known habitual cr!m!na
known as John Doe, The Magistrate
issued TO the grateful compliments a
John Doe summons. which Ii returnablt
in the West side court next Tuesday.
And everybody fed .northward toward
Little Greenwich VnSge in order to %
IN an afternoon catnap before the jazzer!
n ahmed their niEhtlN iaZZinR.