Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keep 'em Rolling had a big-name debut. Its theme ditty, composed for the occasion by Rodgers & Hart, came bugle-like from the lips of musical comedy's forceful Ethel Merman. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman (with a cute script) kept the program rolling. He discussed the spider situation with a Cleveland professor who has made a specialty of extracting spider silk direct from the producer for cross hairs in range finders. He introduced, as "the nation's No. 1 No man," Priorities Chief Donald M. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson told the nation why. For drama, Maurice...
Rudy Vallee's devout theme song, My Time Is Your Time, went back on the air last week after ten months off. So, for a lot of other programs, did a lot of other tunes whose rights are held by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. ASCAP and the two big networks, NBC and CBS, had finally ended their bitter tiff, signed on the dotted line...
...Land Is Bright is not wrecked by its broad laughs, its even broader satire, its jumble of incident, its rush of events. There was no need to treat the theme solemnly. But there was no need to take all the guts and sinew out of it, to make every character an exaggeration, every action a stencil, every speech a cliché-and then bathe the entire scene in a lurid purple light. But all these faults don't make it dull. It has as much kick as a decanter of bad whiskey...
...Armed Forces of the United States consist of the Army, the Navy, and the Marines. We have always been given to understand that the Marines had the inside track with the fair sex, but in the theme song of "Navy Blues" the much-ballyhooed Navy Blues Sextette maintains that that sailors have the edge. Sailors, it seems, are divided into officers, and gobs. The officers, who are, of course, gentlemen, appear in the foreground only as the source of unpleasant but necessary orders, and in the background only to the accompaniment of soft music and lovely ladies, observing tolerantly...
Getting set for its biggest weekend of the football season, Winthrop House is busy now with arrangements for its Fall Dance, scheduled for the Saturday after the Navy game. Jason Tobias from the Fox and Hounds will provide the music for a nautical setting whose theme will be one of Ed Mahoney's famous, eye-catching, drawings. "A blond in a Navy uniform, climbing the rigging," says Ed. "Full size...