Word: merediths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at the San Francisco World's Fair, the San Francisco Symphony, under Composer-Conductor Meredith Willson, played a work listed in the program as Prelude to The Great Dictator, by Charlie Chaplin. The program was not quite accurate. Actor Chaplin made up the four themes of the Prelude ("Invasion of Osterlich," "Hanah Theme," "Barber Shop Theme," "Charlie Motif"), but the music was fashioned, and orchestrated, by Composer Willson. Although Actor Chaplin always writes music for his films, this was the first to be performed in concert. Said the critics: "Obvious as most satirical attempts. . . . Interesting. ... A pleasant...
...soldier, but when Walter joins the Lafayette Escadrille, somehow Mr. Averill and Sometown are proud of him. Even the Bensinger girl, whose father teaches at the local college and wants his native Germany to win the war, is proud of Walter. To kindly, level-headed Editor Dan Meredith of The Day (John Adair) falls the task of giving Walter's funeral elegy...
...Mice and Men (Lon Chancy Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Mice and Men (Lon Chancy Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Meredith Willson' s Musical Revue, substituting for Fibber McGee & Molly over NBC's red network from 9:30 to 10 on Tuesdays...