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...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Show in Manhattan | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...German A "cultural sections" are sponsoring a showing of "Der Unsterbliche Walzer" at the University Theatre tonight. The film is a musical story of the life of Johann Strause, the Waltz King. Also to be shown is "Remember the Night," starring Barbara Stanwyck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Film to Be Shown | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...company with The Great Waltz, The Unfinished Symphony, Swanee River proves again that, while great composers' music may be entertaining in pictures, their lives seldom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Selznick's list were Robert Z. Leonard, Jack Conway, King Vidor, Victor Fleming. Asked to choose, Gable promptly named his great & good friend Victor Fleming, a big, grey, handsome, nervous, highly efficient Hollywood veteran, who has pulled through such problem pictures as The Crowd Roars, The Great Waltz, The Wizard of Oz, recently directed two of M.G.M.'s greatest moneymakers, Captains Courageous, Test Pilot. On Feb. 27, Fleming started the cameras rolling. Conscientious Craftsman Fleming drove his company hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Author Jacob there is a close connection between popular music and politics. He concludes: "The music made use of by mankind, though it marches slowly and haltingly, quite decisively attaches itself to the political hegemony of the epoch. The royal minuet held sway while France was supreme; the waltz became the undisputed monarch of the ballroom when Napoleon was overthrown with the help of the Germans. One hundred years later the German-Austrian waltz died out when the victorious troops of America streamed across the ocean to the battlefields of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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