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...like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye...
Among the millions listening to General MacArthur's speech before Congress last week were an obscure Hollywood producer named Maurice Duke and a casting director named William Selwyn. At the close of the speech, when MacArthur quoted from the "barracks ballad," Old Soldiers Neiver Die, Selwyn's reaction was instantaneous and practical. He turned to Duke and remarked that whoever got the movie rights to that song would certainly be sitting pretty. Duke at once got on the trail...
...English Ballad...
...poesy. His assets include a suave platform manner perfected at innumerable Rotary lunches, nimble eyebrows, a vibrant voice that radiates sincerity. Seated at a circular table, looking like a cross between an older Fred Allen and the late O. O. Mclntyre, he recites his poems, listens contentedly to ballad-singing Guitarist Paul Arnold, or makes small talk with a wholesome-looking young woman named Rachel Stevenson, who occasionally pours coffee. Sometimes a guest sits in, but "we never have a celebrity, just some homey type with a warm, interesting human story...
...music to Sweet Adeline; after long illness; in The Bronx, N.Y. Called My Old New England Home when written in 1896, the song was not published until seven years and several revisions later, eventually spread through vaudeville, tavern, and singing society to become the nation's favorite drinking ballad. Composer Armstrong, who also wrote / Love My Wife, but, Oh You Kid, made close to $100,000 from Sweet Adeline...