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...increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World." The whistling epidemic that has swept Harvard since "42nd Street" was the child not of single renditions of "Shufile Off to Buffalo," "I'm Young and Healthy," etc. but of the almost constant playing of all of these tunes through...
Into Secretary Wallace's hands the farm bill puts a three-pronged pitchfork with instructions to try to toss farm prices high up on to the wagon of better days. No doltish hired man, the Secretary is expected to start his price-pitching slowly and easily, watching his aim, studying his effects, conserving his power. Farmers who expect to see a sharp overnight rise in commodity values are ill-informed...
Testified Mrs. McLaughlin: "There were tin cans, wagon wheels and other debris all around. As for the pigs, they looked very meagre-starved-looking. . . . They were coughing and seemed to have colds...
...hazards in 1775 were followed in 1776 by Hancock's determination to bring his books to Philadelphia in a "light wagon." The papers were so transported, and were received in Philadelphia in May, 1776, where they remained until the following February, when they were brought back to Boston. The stocks and bonds were received at Harvard but no record has ever been found of the account books given into Hancock's custody...
...penthouse just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and plucks out new melodies on a guitar. For this week's Inaugural he has written "The Franklin Delano Roosevelt March." Works of his which have been well received professionally include "The Oriental Suite" and "The Covered Wagon Suite." But he says: "I'm not a budding Mozart or Brahms. I don't claim genius." Last week politicians poked fun at one of the verses of his songs for children which goes...