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...dwindled. People perked up, though, when Burl Ives appeared to banjo "The Blue Tail Fly," and they joined in the "cracked corn" chorus. Then the dinner chairman arose and introduced a bagpipe band. Cranced necks and scampering children greeted it with curiosity; but when it played "Auld Lang Syne" only a few voices followed the chairman's plea for song. Instead, most people started moving away...
...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...