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When Patty was eleven the sisters got in smalltime vaudeville, stayed there until an agent named Lou Levy heard them, taught them a bouncy, Bronxy song. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. The sisters recorded it for Decca, clicked at once. Since then Manager Levy has picked all their songs, sweet ones as well as cute ones like Beer Barrel Polka, I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, and Well All Right...
...Hers tut Mir Aufspringen...
...going. It sank $82,000 into Federated Press, which began as a labor news service, soon turned into an effective Communist ally. The Fund helped such Communist fronts as International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Educational League, the League for Peace and Democracy, and the Manhattan Soviet daily Novy Mir. It established Vanguard Press (almost $145,000), which brought out revolutionary classics and books in praise of Russia (Vanguard was later sold, became a reputable commercial firm). The Fund put money into non-Communist radical experiments as well: a labor college, a labor daily that lasted six weeks...
...tune, like 1937's Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (TIME, Dec. 27, 1937), sounded unmistakably, dumpily Yiddish. Sure enough, after long investigation the song's publishers (Sing Song Music Corp.) finally admitted that A vous tout de vey was only so much French dressing. A Bronxier way of spelling: Avu tut dir vey. Meaning: "Where does it hurt...
...self-effacing Frau Ehrlich, and plays it better. By shadings of voice, gesture, glance, she becomes the wife who, excluded from her famous husband's death chamber by the presence of his great colleagues and his physician, sits playing the simplest of German love songs: Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. When she can be alone with him at last, he is dead. And her closing of the door upon herself and his body is the picture's last great directorial touch...