Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This autumn Princetonians will miss J. Duncan Spaeth's genial boasting about the talents of his halfbrother, "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth, the professional abilities of his wife. Painter Marie Haughton Spaeth, the age of his Princeton house, built during the French & Indian Wars. Oarsmen will miss his stout figure perched in the bow of a motorboat, whizzing up & down Lake Carnegie at crew practice...
Perhaps the outstanding hit number of the evening, to judge by the approval shown by the packed house, was Bacon's catchy swing tune, "Zulu Lulu," in which he combined with Hunt. Other dancing stars in the show are Benjamin Welles, II '38, and Cammann Newberry, "Harvard's most beautiful chorine," who appear in the lavish rumba spectacle "Don't Tell Miguel," and McKennan, who is thrown about the stage by Welles in an apache dance...
...security to the tunesters who got their start in Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley. When Jiibilee and At Home Abroad closed fortnight ago, only four musicomedies remained on Broadway, the mid-season low since the beginning of the War. Simultaneously. Variety's radio log showed that the tune most played on the air was I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, one of Irving Berlin's contributions to Follow the Fleet. For his work on this cinema...
...stone unturned in their exhaustive probe into the mysterious question of what becomes of their money. Their report to the legislative committee on ways and means presents cold facts about several dozen of the 705 items of the state budget, all revealing that funds are being misused to the tune of a grand total of some thirteen million dollars...
...Chorus (to the tune of The Old Oaken Bucket): The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush That hangs in the sink. First it was father's, Then it was mother's, Then it was sister's; Now it is mine...