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...Reason & Rhyme...
Otherwise, Rhythm on the River (not to be confused with Rhythm on the Range) is like the best Bing Crosby musicals which preceded it. With the quiet simplicity of a nursery rhyme it unrolls the fable of a lazy composer (Crosby) who collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin...
...dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm." From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion...
From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...
...better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander once clapped in the Tower...