Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into the snow-covered Rockies...
...July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout the land to raise funds for the President's Warm Springs Foundation for infantile paralytics...
Music was George Cohan's specialty before he took up acting and playwriting. When he was 8, his parents went touring in a melodrama called Daniel Boone on the Trail. "Georgie" was taken along to sell songs in intermission, play second fiddle in the orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went...
...entered the War George Cohan started writing topical songs. He sat down at the piano, fumbled around with the F sharp chords† and in no time "Over There" was ready for Nora Bayes to sing and 4,000,000 soldiers to march to. "Over There" sold 3,000,000 copies, became musical history. Woodrow Wilson sent Cohan an autographed photograph while his secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, wrote a letter: "The President considers your War song a genuine inspiration to all American manhood...
...held a new interest for Cohan after that. For the George Washington Bicentennial he wrote "Father of the Land We Love," went to the White House and presented Herbert Hoover with the first copy (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). Three years ago he wrote for the Edison Golden Jubilee a song that was never published. Called "Thomas A. Edison, Miracle Man," it starts...