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Perky, wiry Theodore Metz, 87, occupies a desk in the Manhattan offices of Edward B. Marks Music Corp. He speaks with a thick German accent, looks like an oldtime German music master with his white mustache, flowing necktie and fusty frock coat. Puttering about in the music business, Theodore Metz began last week to celebrate-a little ahead of time-the 50th anniversary of the composition of his No. 1 song, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...clear night and shelled occasionally to vary the monotony. Later, in the Meuse Argonne offensive, bombs were our nightly bedtime story rain or shine. I never heard of any of our immediate outfit suffering any bodily ills from a bomb and Nancy, in particular, was a well-curried town. Metz was only 20 miles away and Nancy caught it both coming and going, the bombers dropping a part of their load on the way out and dumping the remainder on their way back. They did considerable property damage and killed a few civilians, but, aside from keeping the Frenchmen running...
...Metz, France, April 19--French authorities tonight investigated eye-witness reports that a German plane flew over France's eastern frontier fortifications in the region of Thionville, at low altitude...
...Seventy miles an hour for $495! That's going some! 1912 Metz '22. Metz 'Bullfrog' will be in front of Leavitt's today at 12 o'clock." Advt...
...songs were "You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach" (1896), "Take Back Your Gold" (1897), "She's More to be Pitied than Censured" (1898). Then ragtime started its rage. "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E" (1891) was one of the first strikes. Theodore Metz got the mood for "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1896). With ragtime the Negro composers came north, the men who founded present-day Harlem. Negro Rosamond Johnson was one of Marks's protégés. He wrote "My Castle on the River Nile" (1901), "Under...