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...nation sing them. In the Pulitzer Prize musicomedy Of Thee I Sing, nothing was more memorable than his fantastic song, Of Thee I Sing, Baby. Raffish tunes from his Negro opera Porgy and Bess (I Got Plenty of No thin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So), stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music for the cinema Delicious. He wrote the score for the Astaire-Ginger Rogers picture, Shall We Dance (TIME, May 10). He was working on the sixth of nine songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Gershwin | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...liked. About to return to Alaska, he at last found one Para Krka, 22, the placid, pretty, dark-haired daughter of a pensioned gendarme and his innkeeping wife. "Everything it's just the way I got it in my mind since I was a youth, only she ain't quite so tall as I figured," said Martin Slisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Slisco's Bride | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...young men to publish, or "perish", is so great that their teaching and tutorial sessions suffer. A man may be taught to lecture in a comparatively short time, but the gift of inspiration and ability to stimulate youth, is one that demands much work and practice to at-ain. Since it is the young men who bear the greatest teaching burden, particularly in the sections of the large courses, it becomes doubly important that they master the art of teaching as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION AT HARVARD | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...extensions" of the Father's "heavens," she was long pointed to as the prime "sample and example" of his powers. Last week Faithful Mary seized upon Father Divine's disappearance as an excuse to announce what she said she had lately come to realize: that Father Divine "ain't God. He's just a damned man. He ain't no more God than you're God." Her renunciation, she said, had been expedited by his demands that she turn over to him all the property held in her name. Faithful Mary's patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messiah's Troubles | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...song. The most satisfactory solution seems to be to present a show in a show, whereby songs can be sung in great profusion. That is the line followed in "On the Avenue", whereby we hear the already popular strains of "Let's Go Slumming", "Last Year's Love", "He Ain't Got Rhythm", "Police Gazette Girl", and "I Got My Love to Keep Me Warm". Most of these are sung by Alice Faye in her warm contralto. Apparently it was not considered safe to let Madelcine Carrol sing unless Dick Powell was there to drown...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

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