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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...redoubtable Critic Ashton Stevens covered the performance, closed his review with the line that, for dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation as a "sweet guy" at the same time, Tin Pan Alley and Radio Row were helping him celebrate three anniversaries last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Feeble Pulse | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Prescription. Bernays offered no cureall, but he mapped what is probably the most ambitious and detailed strategy yet designed to lift the theater's prestige and boost its business. If ever made to work on Broadway-a stronghold of unenlightened self-interest-his plan would turn a collection of hit-hungry gamblers into an efficiently self-regulated industry with uniform standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Feeble Pulse | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Dear Friend and Gentle Hearts." With these last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tales Out of Sunday School | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Singing & Talking. To her own present position, Margaret Clapp brings more talent than training: she was never a dean like Vassar's President Sarah Blanding or Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride. But ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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