Word: syne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis' Forest Park flash on, flooding the park with a blinding glare-the signal to the audience that the show is over. One night next week when the lights blaze, about 12,000 Municipal Opera fans will rise to 'their feet and roar out Auld Lang Syne with the cast, as they have regularly at the close of St. Louis' summer operetta seasons since...
...Louis Municipal Opera (Sat. 7 p.m., CBS) opens a summer series of light opera and musical comedy. First: selections from Henry Sullivan's new operetta Auld Lang Syne...
...other clues weren't much help: the strains of Annie Laurie and Auld Lang Syne; a neighing, galloping horse (Eddie Cantor was a wrong guess); cat yowls; a horn tootling. Columnists and rocking-chair dopesters were certain they had it. Some of the "sure things": Sir Harry Lauder, George Gallup, Mayor O'Dwyer, Jack Benny, Gene Tunney, All-America Fullback Doak Walker...
Clarence Day Sr., impersonated by 16 actors while attracting 3,263,630 theatergoers, finally ran out of breath; Life with Father closed after a world's record run of 3,213 consecutive Broadway performances. At the final curtain the audience and cast reverently sang Auld Lang Syne. Actors wept in their dressing rooms (only one had another job lined up). An ex-member of the cast failed to spread much cheer with a telegram: "HEAR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY GOES NEXT...
...floats run up by various groups during the evening. At midnight the lights in the hall went out and blue spots played down dramatically from the four corners of the hall onto the phoenix, whose wings began flapping while its green eyes blazed. As the band played Auld Lang Syne, Big Ben's chimes were piped over the loudspeakers. Onto the crowded floor marched a file of Irish bagpipers, each playing a different tune, and followed cacophonously by a swaying, cheering chain of drunks. Several floats joined the procession, but only one created much impression. It carried, along with...