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...shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when Will Rogers caroled Ta-rah-rah-boom-de-ay. Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first picture in which Miss Powell has had a dancing partner; she performs with George Murphy an Astaire and Rogerish number, I'm Feeling Like a Million, which is good but not as good as Astaire and Rogers. Apparently...
Maury Maverick's "purpose is to tell an ordinary story of an ordinary man with ordinary ideas." but he has a right to consider himself more American than most. His ancestors were early first citizens of Manhattan (whose etymology he gives as Man-a-hat-ta-nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious...
...Ta-ra-ra Boom de-ay"--"The Bowery"--"The Sidewalks of new York" "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"--Daisy bell" ("A Bicycle Built for Two")--"Comrades"--"Little Annie Rooney"--"She May Have Seen Better Days"--"The Band Played On"--"After the Ball"--"A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...member of the Board of Indian Commissioners (an unpaid commission of more than 60 years' standing, since abolished by the President on the ground of economy), I was visiting in the Osage country and called at the log cabin home of John Stink or Ha-ta-moie, whose emergence from the hills was hy no means a new story at that time...
...fertile realm of coin machines purveying other commodities than music. Recently Seeburg engineers have perfected ice cream and Coca-Cola vendors. Mr. Seeburg got interested in merchandise vending machines in England, where cigaret machines first came into general use, where as early as 1932, at the London Zoo, visitors ta the seals could operate for sixpence a herring hurling machine...