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Stand Up and Cheer (Fox) contains a penguin dressed to resemble Jimmy Durante; a song called "I'm Laughin'"; a grand finale parade, showing Hollywood chorus boys and girls waving their arms in time to ah anthem called "We're Out of the Red." None of these is any better than it sounds...
...Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun of France. At the foot of the coffin Cardinal van Roey pronounced Absolution, and with muted horns the band of the First Grenadiers played the national anthem...
...drums rolled out an elegy. But throughout the Western World last week a mighty marching tune reverberated. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, was dead in Worcester, England. He was Britain's foremost composer. Master of the King's Musick. His Pomp and Circumstance was practically a national anthem.* But as he lay dying from an abdominal operation last autumn. Sir Edward had made his daughter promise not to give him a pompish London funeral. He had grown up in Worcester and in Worcester he had chosen to end his days. He never posed as a great composer...
Coatless and black shirted himself, last week Il Duce faced the Chamber which thrice rose and sang the Fascist anthem "Youth, youth, springtime of beauty!"* before the 60 minute session began...
...liberty exists in fascist Italy," continued Salvemini. "Toscanini is beaten in Milan for refusing to play the fascist anthem. Ferrero, the historian, lives in exile in Geneva. And Croce is grossly insulted for uttering sentiments displeasing to the fascists while lecturing at Oxford. Today he can not write on political topics...