Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago a blond young Briton ambled down London's Charing Cross Road, turned into Denmark Street (equivalent of Manhattan's Tin-Pan Alley), sought out a publisher who might be sympathetic. The young man had a tune to sell. He played it on the piano; the publisher asked its name. Ray Noble thought quickly. "Why, call it 'Goodnight, Sweetheart,' " he said. Thereupon Ray Noble's own name was made...
Never was a song more cruelly abused. Yet many realized that it was a rare, good tune in its smooth, nostalgic style. And it served to turn attention to quiet Ray Noble, no ordinary, illiterate, catchpenny songwriter but the well-mannered son of a well-to-do London neurologist and a nephew of T. Tertius Noble, the venerated organist of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. Organist Noble has never been known to hum "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Nor has he ever met his nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only...
...after she broke off with Orlov Catherine struck up the strangest of her partnerships-with Gregory Potemkin, one-eyed, clumsy, moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the tune of some 50 million rubles. They lived to see part of their dream come true: Russia mistress of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover (40 years...
...from Bellamy (to whom she is not married) in a scene for which the reporter (Victor Kilian) supplies the fade-out gag. He gives a musical cigaret case to Bellamy with a line to the effect that the possibilities of the trip seem to make the gift appropriate. The tune the gadget plays is "Rockaby, Baby...
Where they dance to the tune of Heywood Broun...