Word: hallelujahs
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Nothing in Jazz Age is more stirringly nostalgic than its sound track. Arranger Robert Russell Bennett has woven together 18 songs, e.g., Dardanella, Chicago, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, in the orchestral style of the period, and orchestrated Hallelujah with the clack of a stock ticker as its motif. The narration of the film, the second in a Project 20 trilogy (first: The Great War; third: The Story of the Thirties), is redolent with the decade's slangy idiom, from "Let's get blotto" to "Nerts." Better yet, not only for its authentic ring...
...director Benno Frank's ill-advised decision to ruin Sherwood's simplicity and sincerity by suffixing a saccharine pantomime: a group of young Negro girls ran up on stage and raised their hands to the American flag while the loud-speakers blared forth a recording of "Glory, glory, hallelujah, for his truth goes marching...
...defendants-each freed on $300 bond after fingerprinting-proceeded from the jailhouse to church for the next move. About 3,000 Negroes gathered in Montgomery's red brick First Baptist (Negro) Church to protest the arrests, to kneel beneath stained glass windows and peeling yellow walls and sing "Hallelujah." Said the Rev. Martin Luther King, 27: "This is not a tension between the Negro and whites. This is only a conflict between justice and injustice. We are not just trying to improve Negro Montgomery. We are trying to improve the whole of Montgomery . . . If we are arrested every...
Bilgray created a "Hallelujah" cocktail in her honor, causing her husband of the moment, Singer David Hutton, to start a suit for $1,000,000 (which he dropped after a satisfactory flurry of headlines...
Superior Court Judge Howard M. Findley sidestepped the constitutional issue, refused to terminate the services. But before the evangelists could get out a hallelujah, he also refused their request to abrogate the prison rule prohibiting services outside the chapel, turned the whole matter over to Sheriff Tim Mc-Cullough. The sheriff decided that services henceforth will be held in the chapel where the evangelists can reach only prisoners who want to hear them. "It's a dirty shame," said one evangelist. "Why, we've been the bulwark against Communism in that jail for many years...