Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calling themselves the Glenn Miller Orchestra. A public that had not forgotten the Miller name (his orchestra was voted the nation's No. 1 sweet band in 1941) packed the house. The G.I.s, a little worried about how the public would feel about them, found the old Miller theme song still described it: In the Mood...
...melancholy 1946 the Emperor took more care in setting the theme-"Snow on the Pine...
...still burly, still erect. Going to the witness chair, he walked into the glare of cameramen's klieg lights with the air of a man expecting complete vindication. For two days, with the flat authority of the quarterdeck, he hammered away at the central theme of his defense-that the Navy had kept him so inadequately informed that he had been "misled" into believing an attack on Hawaii was "not imminent or probable...
...Jules Levey-United Artists) is just one more in a current series of Western omelettes. This time Randolph Scott is the fighting marshal and Ann Dvorak the beautiful, bad-tempered barroom singer. Against a background alive with neighing, gunfire and the sound of crashing wagons, Marshal Scott states the theme by drawling that thar ain't no justice in Abilene Town. He's dead right: hard-drinking cattlemen raid the village every few weeks, brawl in the bars and take pot shots at the God-fearing homesteaders who have settled on the town's outskirts...
...Philadelphia professional woman: ''Last year it was made clear to me that my husband had an affair with a married woman. . . . Please use some theme Sunday morning which you think would bear on the remorse and regret which will follow if homes are wrecked by such relationships...