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Fifty-seven-year-old Lionel Atwill, oldtime matinee idol, was indicted for perjury by a Los Angeles grand jury reopening a year-old investigation of allegedly gamy gambols at Atwill's home. He pleaded not guilty and faced trial...
...Comedian Will Fyffe, Scottish music-hall idol and Buckingham Palace favorite, who has sung prodigiously to British military forces—Commander of the British Empire...
...based on the tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...
...still further. The further cataclysm that gave Raeder his burning, hard-eyed religion was the dying days of the war, when the German Navy was ordered out to sea-and men mutinied. The fleet did not go out. To Raeder's grooved, naval mind, the realization that his idol had a Communist brain and no muscle was the final, hardening blow. On the June afternoon when a faithful few scuttled 74 ships of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, he dedicated himself again...
...White Hope of the symphony, although his name has not yet crept into the Widener stacks. The greatest factor in this meteoric rise was, of course, the great qualities of his music, but the Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back in '36, in his pre-fifth-symphony days, he was considered a decadent by the Commisary of Culture, and publicly reprimanded by Pravda for being a callous, shallow, "modern," who destroyed the old formal bases of art just...