Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anthem. But the accompanying music, though certainly no worse than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza" at a memorial concert in Bologna devoted to the works...
...most of the usual elements of their craft, it is up to Messrs. Dietz & Schwartz to turn out something well out of the ordinary. They do. In rapid succession, lively, gracious Fred & Adele Astaire (Funny Face, Smiles) entertain with dancing to an accordion played by Brother Fred; a tasteful tune, "High & Low," is introduced; Frank Morgan (Topaze) and straight-faced Helen Broderick (Fifty Million Frenchmen) engage in a long argument while waiting for a taxi; Dancer Tilly Losch (This Year Of Grace) exhibits herself sinuously in a tasteful routine. Included in the tomfoolery is that extremely funny man Philip Loeb...
...Federal Radio Commission, said that a proposal made by Secretary Wilbur's committee to allocate 15% of all radio time for educational purposes would mean a "great disaster" to the cause of radio education, for the present audiences which have been built up by commercial stations would not tune in on a special, educational wavelength. Most educational discourses are "without qualification dull...
...Tune: "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Theme: doppel-rohrgcdeckt, the name of the organ-stop that produces a flute effect. Gedickef is meaningless, inserted to jingle. * Enlarged to book form: THE PIPE ORGAN PUMPER * Greenberg, New York, 70pp...
...Hearstpapers throughout the land last fortnight, readers beheld a new column of news notes headed "The Globe Trotter." Radiowners were told they might tune in and hear "The Globe Trotter" relate his stories in more detail. At newsreel theatres were showing shots of the events thus Globe-Trotted. This ingenious coordination of press, radio and screen was the latest development of Hearst Metrotone News. The reels, distributed twice weekly by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are prepared in Manhattan but can be modified to include events of local interest where they are displayed. The name of the "sponsoring" newspaper is worked into...