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...this particular movie the composing team portrayed is Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby of Tin Pan Alley fame. The stars are Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. Astaire provides the usual amount of softshoe and tap dancing at which he is still very adept, but Skelton is not as funny as usual. Since there is virtually no plot, your reaction to the film depends upon how well you like the songs and Astaire's dancing. To me, Astaire's light-footed work on the boards and his casual acting and singing make any picture he is in worth seeing...
...June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...
Until his early 20s, Andre Kostelanetz never allowed a Tin Pan Alley tune to get into his rigidly classical musical diet. Born in St. Petersburg 49 years ago, he studied piano at the conservatory, became an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theater before he was 20. But during the civil strife of the early '20s, Kostelanetz grew restless...
...Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...
...music business, a rough & ready seismograph of all public concerns, was beginning to zigzag to the war in Korea. Biggest of a crop of new patriotic songs sprouting along Tin Pan Alley was a brash tune in march tempo called The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record...