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...Year's Eve. The University Theatre showed "In Person" and "Splendor" and standing room only prevailed after 8 o'clock. There was no midnight show, but there was one of those shorts in which, with much ringing of bells and to the tune of Auld Lang Syne the figures 1935 were swept away by Father Time's sickle and the figures 1936 gaily substituted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage. For the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour. Thanks to Dean Robert Guy Mc-Cutchan of DePauw University, Methodists are given some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been reharmonized, paired with a 16th Century lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hymns for 8,000,000 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...Because the occasion was in part a farewell to Manager Giulio Gatti- Casazza every effort was made to get him to appear on the stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti stood far back in his box, tears in his eyes, his arm uplifted in the Italian salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Burlesque | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...band played the "Star Spangled Banner," a few strains from "Aloha Oe," some of "Auld Lang Syne." Franklin Roosevelt took off his Panama to the officers and men of the U. S. S. Houston as he left the cruiser that had been his home for 33 days, 12,000 miles. On the Portland dock welcoming crowds saw him give a confident toss of the head, watched his well-tanned face glow with self-assured smiles. A few drops of rain fell from a threatening sky upon him in his open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Return to Trouble | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...dome of St. Paul's. After midnight the revellers walked away. Recently the following appeared in the London Times' "agony column"; Will the bearded Scot who greeted the New Year by stamping on my foot on steps of St. Paul's cathedral while singing "Auld Lang Syne" kindly send 30 shillings to pay medical attendance and this advertisement? - COLLEEN IN GREEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scot & Colleen | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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