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...Aunt Susanna (Evelyn Varden) raises chickens to kill time and mourns for the days when her husband was the "Catch of the South," before "the Northerners caught up with him and trimmed...
Madam Secretary Perkins is Mrs. Paul Wilson. She has a daughter. Susanna...
...songwriter, thin and wasted at 37, had fallen in his Bowery rooming-house, cut his throat, bashed his forehead. News papers took scant notice of the passing of the man who wrote "Old Folks at Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Nelly Ely," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home." Author John Tasker Howard, an expert on U. S. music, gives him 429 pages in a book cramful of documents, statistics and sidelights on the songwriting business in the mid-19th Century. Pittsburgh, not the South he wrote most about, was the home of Stephen Foster...
...children were beginning school undernourished. Miss Perkins at once summoned a conference of doctors, dietitians, educators and sociologists. They meet two weeks hence to determine the magnitude and extent of the problem, best remedies. Exclaimed Miss Perkins, who has a 16-year-old child of her own, Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, "No amount of statistics and no number of bulletins can take the place of a lamb chop and a glass of milk at the right moment...
...42nd Street" illustrate the increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World." The whistling epidemic that has swept Harvard since "42nd Street" was the child not of single renditions of "Shufile Off to Buffalo," "I'm Young and Healthy," etc. but of the almost constant playing...