Word: waltzed
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...reporting the courtship of the future Mrs. Rickenbacker (Lynn Bari), equally pleasant attention is given to the one-step, the waltz, even the schottische, to tunes like Too Much Mustard and Missouri Waltz. There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators. For well-articulated comedy and for beauty of evocative detail, this is one of the pictures of the year...
Last week Harry Truman found himself saddled with a theme song, too. When he stepped from his plane at San Francisco, the band wobbled through The Missouri Waltz. When he went to Independence, The Missouri Waltz (which was originally composed by an lowan, John Valentine Eppel) followed him. The Chicago publishers had to fill a rush order for scores from Missouri when the President got back home...
President Truman admits to liking The Missouri Waltz, sometimes picks it out on the piano at parties. But he is just as likely to come up with something else of the same dreamy kind, like the almost forgotten Black Hawk Waltz which he played in the rotunda of Washington's State Capitol (TIME, July...
...older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy Baby...
This time petite Joan Roberts and bellowing Harry Stockwell have been joined in a slightly better than mediocre musical combining history and romance. The program lists Vienna as the scene, but a waltz strain now and then is all that is Viennese in the show. Aside from the costumes and snappy Austro-Hungarian salutes, it might take place in Chicago...