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On First Looking Into Bee Palmer's Shoulders With Bows To Keats And Keith's |
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Title: On First Looking Into Bee Palmer's Shoulders With Bows To Keats And Keith's Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams] ["The World's Most Famous Shoulders"] "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies "Bee" Palmer has taken the raw, human--all too human--stuff of the underworld, with its sighs of sadness and regret, its mad merriment, its swift blaze of passion, its turbulent dances, its outlaw music, its songs of the social bandit, and made a new art product of the theatre. She is to the sources of jazz and the blues what Francois Villon was to the wild life of Paris. Both have found exquisite blossoms of art in the sector of life most removed from the concert room and the boudoir, and their harvest has the vigour, the resolute life, the stimulating quality, the indelible impress of daredevil, care-free, do-as-you-please lives of the picturesque men and women who defy convention.--From Keith's Press Agent. Then felt I like some patient with a pain [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |