The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-15


ent on this desk, all over the ash tray
on which no ashes may be dropped and
right in front of the hand painted candle
which under no circumstances may be
lighted Your correspondent lives at home
The clippings all relate to Jazz. They
belong to the files of a certain news
paper and contain everything that has
been said about jazz by everybody from
Bee Palmer to Rabbi Wise. Yes, you would
die laughing.
You may well ask: with so many
fresh Tin the sense of new or recently
newspapers to be had for tuppence OF
thereabouts how comes he to be reading
this ancient journalistic chow chow?"
The impulse derived originally from a
pain in the neck
Your correspondent lately took up. in
the waiting room of a well known prescrip-
ton specialist. a copy Of highbrow maya
zine. In II there was an article pooh pooh
ing jazz. In words that never weakened
to the extent of less than three syllables.
save in the unavoidably monosyllabic con-
sonants, conjunctions and articles. it en-
deavored to give the impression that jazz
is absolutely and unutterably blaa. Jazz
was not music. II was vulgar. it was SEN
sual. il was discord, il was this it was
that
II Sophie Tucker or Paul Whiteman had
read that article they would have cried
their four eyes out. and it was to avert
Just such a calamity that your CORE
Nalrr
the prescription. and bought up and burned
every copy Of that periodical No opthalmia
for Sophie Tucker If your correspondent
can help it,
Knocking Jazz Is Popular.
That article. then. was the straw that
broke your correspondents back and then
gave him a necktal pain.
Why must they pick on jazz?
mean jazz in its broader application,
which might take in pretty nearly the en-
tire modern movement. including the
shimmy You would have four or five gen.
eraI subheads, in Roman numerals. One
of them, Of course. would be the flapper.
And then under her would be (a) bobbed
hair, (b) cigarettes for women, (c) short
skirts for ditto. and so on. Under the
short skirts you would have sub-subhead
I'm small Arabic numerals. as % rolled
down stockings. And so on. II gives you
an idea of how you could go about 1t II
you were writing a thesis. II also gives
you an idea of how much the jazz move
ment really includes.
In the kingdom OF jazz as 1t now exists
elements like Ted Lewis and Gilda Gray
and the dance called Chicago are only
drops in the bucket Why there are even
jazz preachers to-day. whether they know
it themselves OF not.
Looking at il from all of the s72 sides
which every question has. can you see
how things could be any different to-day
Can you see that there is any more danger
Of Jazz running the country than there Is
Of a high Qow?) tariff running it. Oh
open face goloshes as worn by goods. OF
Ed Wynn's jokes or almost anything else
you could think OF and a lot OF things
you wouldn't? We win not speak Of the
war because OF the fact that II is over
Some time ago the writer was sent t.
northern Labrador by the Society FOL
Practical Research to investigate and re-
port on the causes for discomfort among
the Crustaceans OF Labrador. This wa:
when he was at the age OF ~ and he wa.
gone two days and two nights. Labrador
time. or seven years and four months
New York daylight saving time.
Returning last night Unexpectedly n
found that JAZZ had arrived during hi
absence. You may well imagine his sur