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King of Jazz? Paul Whiteman and Hollywood's Rave Revues by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner

Join us on Tuesday afternoon for a screening of King of Jazz (Universal, 1930) at LPA. Hollywood's Rave Revues is a film series programmed by John Calhoun in conjunction with the exhibition The Great American Revue, across the lobby in the Vincent Astor Gallery. The film stars and is named for Paul Whiteman, an early radio star and innovator of symphonic jazz, now remembered primarily for commissioning Gershwin's Rh…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:42AM on May 14, 2012

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