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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Governor Pinchot had campaigned on a platform appropriated from his Democratic friend Franklin D. Roosevelt and since Senator Reed had spent most of his time on the hustings damning the Administration, the primary had been widely touted as the New Deal's first ordeal by ballot box. Day after the primary, Pennsylvanians woke to find that they had not only recorded their sovereign electoral will but had also been cast as a political oracle for the country. A host of strictly partisan interpreters at once gave tongue...
...Gulf Refining Co. (Sundays 9-9:30 p.m. E. D. S. T.). The latest lyric was to introduce "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Always," his two favorites. For the five broadcasts there were 100 Berlin songs. Three weeks ago the programs began with a smashing song parade (see box), left millions of listeners marveling not only at Berlin's record for hits but also at the way he has survived the changing fashions. Many an oldtime songwriter can stir up sentimental memories. Irving Berlin's parade marched proudly and vigorously into 1934, ended with a medley from...
Joseph E. Widener, president of Belmont, made his way through the crowd of delighted socialites around Mrs. Sloane's box. "I'm getting tired of congratulating you," he said, pressing the lady's glove. "I'm getting tired of holding your hand...
...Thousands Cheer, with its sure-fire title, its quick topical lines on which Moss Hart collaborated, its lyrics and music which Berlin wrote alone, varying his mood until it was hard to believe that the same man had written gentle, reminiscent "Easter Parade" and stomping Harlemy "Heat Wave." The box-office success of As Thousands Cheer beats that of Of Thee I Sing, the 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning show for which George Gershwin wrote the music. It is running far ahead of Jerome Kern's Roberta, although no single show tune is selling so well as "Smoke Gets...
Irving Berlin is proud of having set a record in the theatre's lean time, proud of having written a fast, popular show at 46, when most songwriters' careers are over. But deep in his heart he has a warmer feeling for the first Music Box Revue ("Say It With Music"). And never has he been so proud as when in 1910 he was able to buy his mother a hard shiny set of parlor furniture with the royalties from "My Wife's Gone to the Country" and "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon...