Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture which makes a paranoiac with a penchant for killing small girls one of the most unforgettable cinema villains of the year. After a look at the murderer, you are shown the effect which a series of his crimes has had upon the city where he lives. Tipplers in beer gardens suspect each other of being monsters. An elderly gentleman who tells an urchin what time it is is nearly mobbed. The police make a dragnet around the town, question hundreds of suspects, arrive at no conclusions. Finally the outlaws of the town-pickpockets, forgers, cardsharps, safe-blowers, burglars, beggars...
Echoes of old songs hovered over Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton ballroom one night last week, reviving memories of the days when people crowded three and four on a piano bench, craning to read sheet music tattered from use, or when they sat in beer gardens singing along with wheezy little orchestras, beating time with their fans. At the Ritz the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers was having its annual dinner. No music was played but present among the 350 songwriters were erect, square-cut old Theodore Metz, 86, who wrote "There'll Be a Hot Time...
...royalties which the A. S. C. A. & P. has collected from radio stations and cinemansions. But President Gene Buck (who wrote the lyrics for "Sally, Won't You Come Back?'' and "Hello Frisco") made a speech which gave a brighter look to the song industry. When beer comes back, he said, people will be inspired to sing once more. Irving Berlin has expressed the same conviction: "Songwriters undoubtedly will be influenced by the return of beer and beer gardens. . . . The tricky rhythm so popular for the past eight years is dying out. Songs will become a little...
August Janssen, the Dutch restaurateur who owes much of his fame to the slogan "Janssen Wants to See You,'' has had two great disappointments in his profitable life. One came with Prohibition when the chimes which accompanied the broaching of a cask of beer were stilled. The other was when his son Werner refused his offer of $250,000 to give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes...
...good beer were readily obtainable we would, I think, gradually get away from the high tension at which boys of today are living and return to the simpler and easier social relaxation that, in the past, was associated with college life."-Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, dean of Yale College...