Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production had a Brobdingnagian minstrel show banked high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare. Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem. Only Pressagent Dexter Fellows of Ringling Bros. Circus could have done justice to the array of talent which Roxy brought together for the public to gape at and listen to for as long as two hours and as little as 75? including...
...morning services consisted of prayers, scriptures, and perhaps only a hymn, the matter would merit no objection. As it is, however, the anthems and responses which the choir sings three times a week, and the important part it plays in the Sunday services demand conditions which will do justice to the singing. To make a capella anthem really effective, it is necessary to sing in a hall which has enough resonance to assist in sustaining every note, and which does not necessitate a continual effort on the part of the choir. As long as the carpet and ceiling remain...
Most Free State theatres suddenly stopped playing "The Soldiers' Song" last week. Patriotic audiences, accustomed to stand and sing it as the Free State's national anthem, demanded explanations. They were told that one Peter Kearney, by profession a housepainter but acknowledged to have composed "The Soldiers' Song" in his spare time, has hired lawyers. The lawyers are demanding a royalty fee for every time the national anthem is played. Last week Dublin's larger theatres defied Housepainter Kearney, continued to play "The Soldiers' Song," dared his lawyers...
decreed as the national anthem: Deutschland, Deutschland liber Alles, liber Alles in der Welt! Of this no hard & fast translation is possible, since Germans themselves have meant several different things by iiber Alles since the words were written...
Died- John Charles Linthicum. 65, U. S. Representative from Maryland, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the unofficial Democratic "beer bloc"; of diabetes; in Baltimore. An infrequent speaker in the House, he was a champion of "The Star-Spangled Banner," officially adopted as the national anthem in March...