Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church, A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government. Dean Clarence Skinner of Tufts College, and Mrs. Henry Wise of Cambridge. The meeting will be open to the public. The student committee on arrangements consists of F. DeWolfe Bolman '35, Raymond Dennett '36, Comstock Glaser '35, Malcolm Knowles '34, Russell Olsen '35, and John F. Spencer...
...appointed to the Commission: J. D. Norton, '34, chairman; W. S. Sims, Jr. 1G.; David Popper 1G.; E. N. Stilson 1G.; E. G. Latham 1G.; M. G. Eliot 1G.; R. M. Goodwin '34; George Gore '34; H. S. Saxe '34; John Sapienza '34; B. M. Bowie 35; R. G. Olsen...
...affair with a simple melody line sketched in, the words squeezed underneath in cramped, schoolboyish writing. They tucked it away in a safe and forgot about it until a few months ago when Addy Britt, an alert young song-plugger, quietly took it out and gave it to George Olsen...
...publisher's plugging. The publishers of "The Last Round-Up" knowing now that they have a big song, have prayed that it will not be plugged to death. But "The Last Round-Up" started to get out of hand two months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle...
...applause was tremendous. The song was made. Last week George Olsen and Joe Morrison were back at the Paramount, this time doing "The Last Round-Up" with a horse posing against a twilight sky. Joe Morrison, his name now blazing under electric lights, was being besieged with radio and cinema offers...