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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto a piano, coyly croon I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze, the hit from Collegiate, for which Gordon and Revel wrote the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Millworkers | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Assisted by members of the Polar Hear Club, who revel in such work, and by two 2-ton trucks belonging to the Maintenance Department the Puritans cleared an area of over 200 yards along Mill street, making available ample room for the swanky cars of the eager dancers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS' SHOVEL BRIGADE CLEARS ROADS FOR DANCE | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

...wrong profession; his philosophy of teaching is all wrong. He is evading his duty. He is not a good teacher and never will be, if his remark is an accurate comment on his attitude toward his job. Harvard is not interested in aesthetic young men who revel in the intellectual atmosphere that pervades these cloistered walls, sipping their tea and sweet cocktails while drawing salaries to be of service to slightly younger men, who, perhaps, don't like sweet cocktails nor even intellectual atmosphere, but who, nevertheless, pay their tuition for assistance in educating themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BORED INACCESSIBLES | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

That evening Franklin Roosevelt was 54 and the Gang, including White House Secretaries Marvin Mclntyre and Stephen Early, Thomas Lynch, Appraiser of the Port of New York, Stanley Prenosil, a Manhattan businessman and Kirke Simpson of the Associated Press, held private revel in the White House. So far as most of the U. S. was concerned, the President's real birthday party was divided into some 7,000 parts, scattered in some 5,000 U. S. cities and towns, attended by an estimated 5,000,000 guests and yielding a net profit of over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cuff-Links Gang | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether cinemaddicts will enjoy the picture will depend essentially on their feeling about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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