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Word: moonlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler (Donald Gallagher). Here he furnishes orchestrations and harmonies for the musically illiterate composers of song hits and barely succeeds in supporting an exceedingly beautiful daughter (Betty Weston). To his horror he finds his boss putting out Moonlight Mama, a hit founded on the treasured composition of his youth. Worse, his daughter marries Al Tyler to save her father from starvation. But all comes right in the end. Tyler, better than he looks, splits the royalties in the song success with old Henkel, and by his last minute display of hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing act, supplying much slang and local patter. The chief feeder to Fields is Jules Jordan, in the roll of Dave Loeb, attorney whom Henkel employs in his lawsuit against Tyler for the recovery of the rights to Moonlight Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...program for the Symphony "Pops" Concert tonight will be as follows: Overture to "The Barber of Seville"(Tab>Rossini Waitz, "Dornroeschen"(Tab>Tschaikovsky Old Slave Song (Saxophone Solo)(Tab>Gaines-Jacchia Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah"(Tab>Saint-Saens Flniandia(Tab>Sibelius Pirouette(Tab>Glazounov By Moonlight(Tab>Bendel-Jecchia Overture, "Tannhauser"(Tab>Wagner Suite from "Snow Maiden"(Tab>Rimasky-Korsakov Macushla (Orch. by A. Jacchla)(Tab>MacMurrough Hungrian March, "Rukoczy" Berlioz

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pops Program for Tonight | 5/14/1924 | See Source »

WANDERING STARS?Clemence Dane ?Macmillan ($2.25). An eerie, poignant fantasy of people within people, innermost selves. In the story of Damaris Payne, whose eyes came to be "trees without fruit, wells without water, wandering stars,"; Miss Dane has dipped her pen in moonlight and drawn the grotesque and lovely shadows of human souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste* | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today, and can take pictures by starlight alone, is the invention of Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography was known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moonlight Camera | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

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