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...read about Scrooge and Marley and Tiny Tim, but it didn't make him feel any better. Neither did the radio version of the Bible story about the star in the East and peace on earth, good will to men. Before, Christmas had always been a lovely mixture of candlelight and fir trees, beautiful organ music and soft snow falling, and dances where Vag saw all of his old friends, home for the vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/6/1942 | See Source »

Fighting for his infant life in a mechanical respirator, two-year-old Herbert Schneider gasped and almost died. Rushed to the hospital after a traffic accident, Bart Solomon was operated on by candlelight and flashlight. By the same emergency lighting physicians delivered one baby naturally, another by Caesarean section. Storage plants, home electrical appliances, elevators, radio sets all went dead. Set off by the breakage in current, burglar alarms all over the city began to ring. The sirens of police patrol cars added to the weird racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Blackout in Kansas City | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...singing in Europe, sang in nightspots, married a surrealist poet whose name she will not tell because he is anti-Nazi, and still in Paris. Singer Houston has been in the U. S. since 1938, is currently at Manhattan's Rainbow Room, where she performs voodoo songs by candlelight. At the Museum's opening concert she went through her routine with a pair of candles which, by order of the fire department, were enclosed in chimneys. In the darkened house Elsie Houston was something to see as she slapped a tom-tom, crooned incantations to Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choros in Manhattan | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Candlelight (Bunny Berigan; Victor). Hitherto unrecorded Bix Beiderbecke com position, originally written for piano, played by Trumpeter Berigan and a small band. Also available are four other new recordings of Beiderbecke numbers (Flashes, In a Mist, In the Dark, Davenport Blues) by the same combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: POPULAR | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Viennese Waltzes (by Emmerich Kalman and Franz Lehar; Decca). A heart-touching musical trip back to Europe's 20th Century Golden Age. On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight. Some of the numbers-most of which come from Kalman's Sari and Gypsy Princess, Lehar's Eva and Zigeunerliebe-were not previously available on U. S. records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: October Records | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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