Word: glow-worm
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That was the way Glow-Worm used to go-sentimentally enough to sell 4,000,000 copies of the sheet music alone since its publication in 1902.* But the copyright on the old Paul Lincke song runs out soon; performers then will be able to sing it, if they feel like it, without paying royalties to Manhattan's Edward B. Marks Music Corp. This summer, in an imaginative bid to keep ahead of the market, Marks got Johnny Mercer to write new lyrics, copyrighted the modernized version...
...Glow-Worm, Lena, Lena...
...Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They caught the nagging, namby-pamby nonsense of Glow-Worm. Their Cocktails for Two, to a 1934 sob ballad, was such a jukebox favorite that Victor made 150,000 pressings with it on both sides - so that as soon as one side wore out the other side could be played to death...
After the next war, let's hope the conquerors will practice the lessons of the last. Imagine the silliness of it anyway, when you've just beaten a homicidal maniac who hates you, letting him loose to find a new blunderbuss. Any man with the brains God gave the glow-worm would know enough to disarm him completely, throw him naked into a jail, and keep a close watch on the implements coming to him with his necessaries of life...
Rockefeller Center, employing hundreds of elevator boys, had no labor trouble at all during the recent strikes. Naturally any man with the brain-power of a glow-worm, with the heart of a dead beetle, or with te liberalism of a hard- shelled clam, will want to know the reason for the servile degeneracy of the Center masses. Have they upside-down stomachs, weak knees, brains like boiled cauliflowers, or no guts at all? Or perhaps the trouble is not physical, but moral and spiritual...