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Last week on Cumorah's hillside the pageant was twice repeated to audiences that totaled 35,000. They jam-packed the fields at the foot of the hill with their cars. In the prelude they saw a re-enactment of Moroni's first appearance to Joseph Smith. With trumpeters on the hilltop and incidental music from Wagner and Victor Herbert, the pageant then unfolded...
...fall at any moment with a Nazi invasion, the British Government last fortnight began to tell English moppets how the war was shaping up. Aired over all BBC stations were brief news bulletins addressed to children from 10 to 15. Interspersed with mild little jokes and jingles (Making jam, preserving fruits, takes your mind off parachutes), the BBC bulletins were full of hearty father's-knee reassurance. Discussing the death of Italo Balbo, a BBC announcer chattily inquired of his juvenile audience: "What happened to him? Was it an accident? Well, Mussolini and Balbo didn't agree about...
...pieces went into an RCA recording studio in Manhattan and got lost somewhere in the groove. Even the names were changed: to Heavy Traffic on Canal Street and Coo-Dinny-Coo. This Victor recording provided the light-fingered New Friends of Rhythm with one of its most successful jam sessions to date...
...compilation of Indian folklore, with many a crude illustration-see cut), were all the proof Composer Chavez could give that his fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after the Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like an Aztec jam session. Flutes and pipes shrilled and wailed, a trombone (subbing for the snail shell) neighed an angular melody, to the spine-tingling thump-and-throb of drums, gourds, rattles. Xochipili-Macuil-xochitl sounded almost as primitive as Stravinsky...
...Churchill's in a jam, no fault of Mr. Cram. But he must fight alone. Save democracy at home...