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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). From Rossini to Romberg, with Rise Stevens, Heidi Krall, Brian Sullivan, Jerome Hines and the Akron Symphony Orchestra-a sentimental journey for all those who mourn the Voice's imminent silencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...punch based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swinging Priests | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Among Hungarians, or their descendants, who have made names for themselves: such musicians as Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE LAND & THE PEOPLE | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...EDITH S. ROMBERG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Deep in My Heart (MGM) stars Actor-Dancer-Singer-Comic José Ferrer in the life story of Composer Sigmund Romberg. As Ferrer plays him, Romberg is just Ferrer with a Viennese accent. When the story begins, in 1911, Romberg is a piano player in a Manhattan restaurant belonging to Anna Mueller (Helen Traubel); when it ends he has made the big time. This thread of a story sews together some patches and snatches from Romberg shows (Maytime, The Desert Song, etc.), most of them super-duper production numbers. Among the performers: Rosemary Clooney, Gene Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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