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...weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...
...anthem was written by Red Army Chorus Leader Alexander Alexandrov at about the time of the Old Bolshevik purges of 1936. As if the Soviet left did not know what its right was doing, Soviet hymn singers called the tune the Old Bolshevik Hymn. In 1939 it was awarded the coveted Stalin Prize. Its recent metamorphosis from hymn to anthem required a change of only a note or two and a new set of lyrics...
Poet Untermeyer's lyrics drew an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune, which noted that he had telescoped the hymn's "the great Lenin lighted our path; Stalin reared us faithful to the people," to a simple "Lenin and Stalin have lighted the way." Quipped the Tribune: "In Russia, a land of nice dialectical distinctions, poets have been shot for less...
Arturo Toscanini did, from hate of Mussolini, what Hollywood could not persuade him to do for love or money. He made his first movie. In a short for foreign distribution he belabored old enemies with the words he wrote last year for Verdi's Hymn of the Nations ("Italy betrayed...
Chaplain Frederick W. Hagen had the idea (he is head of the training and planning division of the Office of Chief of Chaplains). Protestant, Jewish and Catholic chaplains chose the 13 popular, nondenominational hymns, added the 23rd Psalm. Some of the hymns: God Will Take Care of You, Faith of Our Fathers, Abide With Me, There's a Church in the Valley, Battle Hymn of the Republic...