Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 20 | Sings Jazz at Concert

r SINGS JAZZ AT CONCERT I N ta 1 VA t o Br DY MARIAN HALE u EA Service Writer N NewN jEW EW YORK Nov New 24 24 New NewYork Newl L- L York hasn't set et J I from the shock It got recently when Its musical highbrows assembled at atE atEa atEva E Ea a Gauthiers Gauthier's first concert this season All the staid critics and the con con- con conservatives the sophisticated and the artistic were there In full force to hear music as they believed It should be presented As she sho ap- ap appeared ap appeared on the stage before them they were for the noble strains of Schubert or a Schuman They got that and that and thOu theil the Without an apology MIss Gauthier sang six honest good honest to ness honest ness home home-bros home brewed ed American jazz songs song When I aske asked her why she did It she ehe replied simply Because 90 per cent of ot the peo- peo people peo people pie of this thia country and country and foreign countries too are too are crazy about jazz It has something something-something something the wont won't refine renne and the 10 lowbrows scan cant t but something that gets geU get right Into lou ou ou Ant an- an an- an any anything thing appealing to so large a per per- percentage percentage per percentage of people as jazz does hether it Is good or bad desen es a place on a 0 musical pro program ram as o of one type o of Amer Amer- Amerlean American ican lean music Naturally enough some o of the audience were sere shocked be ond re- re re restoratives but but most of them liked frankly It-frankly frankly liked It t It turned out outto outto outto to be a concert where everyone a had had-a good time laughed and went out whistling Instead of ot looking bored Cut But I made some enemies I 1 can never win In iii back Miss also gave the feminine members of the a shock hen shen v she appeared In a perfectly straight black u gO govin gOn n high In the neck with Ith long sleeve It was only when she left the one noticed d It na a was cut low to the v In the back acle The go gown n was as as as carefully planned as the program she tol told 1 me I love bce colof coIo color and materials Some programs call for them But binco I was ery ery radical In m my selection o of song song-s tills this time 1 I wanted anted to call no atten atten- attention attention tion to m mi self I wanted to focus It all on my Sill singing When the songs were bier er I thought the au- au audience au audience had a 0 light ht to a sartorial thrill go so they got It