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Lieut. Dwight Eisenhower, 19th Infantry, U.S.A., and Miss Mamie Doud were married in Denver on a July afternoon in 1916. It was the time of the hobble skirt, the Pianola and the maxixe, the year that Woodrow Wilson won his second term as President by the margin of 3,806 California votes. It was a time of gathering tension, and because of trouble on the Mexican border, the Eisenhower-Doud wedding was held four months earlier than had been planned. The bridegroom, just promoted to first lieutenant, didn't have time to get new silver bars for his uniform...
Singer Margaret Whiting was born with a silver tuning fork in her hand. Her father, Songwriter Richard A. Whiting (Till We Meet Again, Japanese Sandman, Sleepy Time Gal) was already a big moneymaker in the Pianola, windup phonograph and battery-radio era of popular music. Her aunt and namesake, raucous-voiced Vaudevillian Margaret Young, introduced such ragtime hits as Nobody's Sweetheart Now and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans. Sophie Tucker was little Margaret's red-hot godmamma...
...typewritten copy for our proofreaders and make-up men; 2) reproduces itself at the other end of wires in the Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago printing plants. There the tape is fed into especially equipped Linotype machines, whose typesetting keys it controls in much the same way that a pianola roll controls the keys of a mechanical piano. The result is galleys of correctly-justified lines of metal type ready to be made up into pages according to make-up instructions from New York...
...existence as a whole was hardly dreary. Edith and Osbert performed musical marvels on a pianola, while Sacheverell, too young to pump, "listened to us both with a flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost...
Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...