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...audience nearly as indifferent as leading man John Payne, who wanders through "Tin Pan Alley" as if he had taken a wrong turn and arrived there by mistake--which isn't far from the truth. The tunes, featuring "K-K-K-Katie" and the great grandmother of "God Bless America" make B.M.I.'s current cacophony sound like the music of the spheres. And a kaleidoscopic flashback on World War 1 backs up Professor Elliott by showing that Harvard Square really is a very disagreeable place compared to a battlefield. Jack Oakie, though, provides some of the best mugging since...
...Titania quarrel was many a big-league radio showman who agreed with the description of B. M. I. as "a pain in the ASCAP." ASCAP's President Gene Buck complacently permitted the BMIred networks to broadcast such patriotic ballads as Stars and Stripes Forever, Anchors Aweigh and God Bless America at the President's inauguration. Meanwhile Arthur Murray introduced B. M. I. tunes in his dancing schools, on the theory that his customers would have to learn them if they wanted to practice by radio at home. Among the sillier consequences of the airy civil war, which...
...program: Contralto Risë Stevens, Baritone Nelson Eddy, the National Symphony under Dr. Hans Kindler, Irving (God Bless America) Berlin, Actors Mickey Rooney, Raymond Massey, Charlie Chaplin, Actress Ethel Barrymore. Master of Ceremonies: Douglas Fairbanks...
...most potent of all retail groups. Last year its 5,700 member stores sold $4,500,000,000 worth of goods more than 15% of all U. S. retail sales. President Frank McConnell Mayfield's keynote was grim. Said he: ". . . the waving of flags and singing of God Bless America will not solve the problem. . . . The principal concern of retailing as it faces a New Year is to further the progress of national rearmament...
...intelligence and taste you or I may have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke box, let's just remember the British merchantman that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic last summer. She went down pretty fast, but the crew kept their spirits up by singing--not Rule Brittania or Pomp and Circumstance, but just plain Beer Barrel Polka. Pardon...