| Show v sr srI I I- I IThe The Tile Tragedy of Jazz J I i 4 Assuredly this is an age of f Jazz jazz jazz- an era when Jazz holds sway In music feeling and mental attitudes This apparently should make to for and gaye gayety ty y in our I group P temper On the l s surface perhaps perhaps per per- g haps l it does There are those though who hold there is something almost sorrowful In our national L trend to and among these Is I. Roland Young who Is featured In Beggar on Horseback a at t the Broadhurst theatre in New York I This prominent actor is In a an es especially as- as i favorable position II to study ue and observe Jazz and the reactions reactions' of ot an aler alent public thereto Inasmuch as his lIo current play is Ijaz concerned very considerably 1 ll with rth Jazz nac and its manifold invasions Into our daily dally existence To To my mind claims Young Jazz is one of ot the most tragic things Inthe in inthe inthe the world Jazz Is not simply music music music mu mu- sic denuded of ot all except eccentric rhythm U it Is life lire Itself It It- has be become become become be- be come most lives and between the justice In his robes and the tIle benefactor benefactor bene bene- factor of ot widgets there is not a difference nor do they vary save in sex irom Susie McGlue McGlue McGlue Mc- Mc Glue who works in the steam laun laun- dry The tragic thing about Jazz life lite Is that Its of mob psyChology psychology while useful to the Ue ex exploiter exploiter ex- ex enslaves all about It and willy-nilly willy enmeshes the Individualist Individual Individual- who is beaten Into conformity by necessity Blatant optimists bubbling accepting mechanism mechanism mech mech- anista for tor idealism and sensation for feeling uttering cant ant which thy they believe the result of ot profound I thinking and noise which they mistake mistake mis mis- take for for- enjoyment your enjoyment jour tru true I are Impossibilities and horrors hor ron rora to the artist who ever muse remain staunchly an Individualist individual Bereft of ot all personality appear to the artist only a all as transparent transparent trans trans- parent ghostly st organisms r n which nevertheless s exert er an uncanny In Influence influence in- in fluence Upon his life thwarting his expression and bending him hini at willby will willby willby by the very force foro of ot their their- mass Turn as he may they lie across his every highway Y exacting exacting- their unholy unholy unholy un un- un- un holy toll and imposing their views until he becomes the saddest sadde of ot all r beggars begging beggars begging I vrn an of opportunity eo r In an age given over to toof the glorification glorification J cation of ot machines we ne cannot perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps expect much show of ot Initiative initiative initiative initia Initia- tive from the individual but it Is Isa a spectacle that is at least not al al al- luring John Bowers will be the first first movie star to run in an automobile race rade He He has signed papers to participate par par- pal I in the Ascot gold cup l' l race lace ce which will be I held eld on Thanksgiving day at the Ascot race track in Los s I Angeles over a five and a quarter quarter- mile mlle course Only stock cars are aro eligible and Bowers will vill drive his 1924 car He has had th the racing I bug In his veins for years and do- do de 1 to satisfy this ambition ana 1 try to get away with a a. gold cup CUI at atthe tho the same time He will compete with a number of ot vell well known racing racing racing rac rac- ing drivers That the motion n pictures picture t ten n years from now will seriously hurt the tho popularity of oC the stage is the belief belleC of ot H Helene lene ChadwIck popular motion picture star In the photoplay photoplay photoplay photo photo- play of the future there will be no I necessity for Cor subtitles as ns the players players play play- ers era will speak The pictures will have depth and the players and furnishings furnishings furnishings fur fur- will appear In their natural natural natural nat nat- ural colorings The Tho photoplays s 's of today Will wm be as laughable to the public then as th the ones made mado ten years ears ago are now A L 1 t t Vt |
