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Unable to meet the competition of its bigger brother, the Center Theatre turned to stage extravaganzas (one was The Great Waltz) and an occasional opera or ballet, but did little better. It had a profitable respite with the Sonja Henie ice show from 1940 to 1950, then became NBC's biggest television theater (Milton Berle show, etc.). But its income did not keep pace with Manhattan's rising real-estate values. Last week Rockefeller Center's Chairman Laurance Rockefeller pronounced a death sentence on the relatively young building. When NBC's lease expires next May, workmen...
...sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio's Palmolive Hour, he became a nationwide favorite. In 1931 he dropped the pseudonym, and, never appearing on stage or screen, became star soloist on NBC's weekly Album of Familiar Music, Waltz Time...
...only a few7 hours. When he is creating a new perfume he does no sniffing, simply jots down a formula, claims he knows exactly what the final result will smell like. Says Beaux: "It is like writing music. Each component has a definite tonal value ... I can compose a waltz or a funeral march...
...Composer Thomson has been doing musical portraits since 1928, usually with the subjects posing as for a painter, and now has well over a hundred (including one about Pablo Picasso called Bugles and Birds and a brassy waltz about Fiorello La Guardia...
Dancing. "The most beautiful dance in the world is ... the waltz, a perfect harmony of movement and music...