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...leaguers were the object of the withering scorn of the 30 who lampooned and lambasted them in verse and song. Under the leadership of a glamorous inner circle, euphoniously known as "the filthy few," they advertised the causes of the puritanical attitude in parodies like the following, which was sung to the tune of "Caesar Was a Roman...
Only in Switzerland, in freedom's land, has Flagstad sung. There, fortnight ago, at Zurich, she sang in three operas. One was Beethoven's Fidelio, in which the heroine flourishes her pistol at a tyrant...
...also a fact that, whatever her views, Singer Flagstad has not sung since her return, either in Norway or in any of the big German opera houses...
...Here's an interesting news item that appeared in last night's Presse: [translation] 'Marshal Pétain has modified the text of the Marseillaise. In the future the verse following the refrain: Their blood impure shall bathe our thresholds soon will not be sung. Pétain probably thinks that these words could offend the Germans or the partisans of collaboration. Words to replace those eliminated have not yet been chosen...
There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...