CAMBRIDGE BARS JAZZ.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 17 (Supplement)

CAMBRIDGE BARS JAZZ.

IN COLLEGE CHAMBERS. NO "UKES" OR "SAXES." (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, October 17. Cambridge undergraduates who live in "diggings" have got the laugh over their fellow-students who live in college. One of the chief diversions, especially during the winter months, at the great seat of learning is the making Of jazz music with all the implements which have been especially invented for that fell purpose. Hitherto students living in college apartments have been able to produce all the noisy syncopations of which ukuleles, banjolcles, saxophones, and drums (with their numerous weird attachments) are

capable, without incurring the risk of expulsion. But those students arriving for the new academic year equipped with all the musical paraphernalia have been dismayed to find that they must henceforth make the welkin ring with jazz elsewhere than in college. It should be'explained that undergraduates are supposed to live part of. their time in private apartments and at least one year in college apartments. This is because the college could not possibly accommodate all the undergraduates. In fact, the entry of freshmen this year has been so exceptionally large that a number of youths wishing to "go up" to Cambridge could not be accepted. Motherly Landladies. Now, a student in "digs" can jazz to his heart's content, providing his landlady, does not complain to the , university authorities and put a stop to it. But the landladies of Cambridge are indulgent, motherly women, and many a student has been saved from a scrape by taking shelter under their ' protective wings. But the authorities have left one loophole for the musical-minded young men who live in colleges. They du not bar pianos, violins and other "quiet" instruments. Well, many a noisy jazz tune has been played on an old fiddle, and, as for the piano, its possibilities in the same direction do not need recording. The explanation for the banning of jazz instruments in the colleges is that students occupying college apartments arc mostly in their last year, and are supposed lo be workers. Therefore, they ought not to be disturbed by the ebullient musical tendencies of some of their thoughtless fellow-stud ;nts.