Mairzy Doats Go From Nonsense Rhyme to Nationwide Hit
Four year old Niela Bonni Drake sparked a gobbledygook chant that became Mairzy Doats. Milton Drake Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman shaped the nonsense lyric into a hit written in Tin Pan Alley. The Miller Music copyright sits with the song now in 45000 jukeboxes and 800 radio stations.
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The
Gazette
New York
Mairzy Doats
Niela Bonni Drake
Dozy Doats
Lamzy Divey
Milton
Jerry Livingston
Tin Pan Alley
Lindy’s
Hoffman, Drake and Livingston
Liddle Lamzy Divey
Kiddley Divey
Livingston
al Trace
Dixie Hostel
Trace
Broadway
Miller Music Corporation
Lily Pons
Irene Dunne
Herbert Marshall
Petrillo
Musicians’ Union
Decca
Merry Macs
Niele Bonni Drake
Milton Drake
War humor and war news snippets from a 1940s service page
A collage of wartime humor and notes from military camps and newsrooms. Vignettes describe bombed cities with a kitten and baby as footnotes in history, jokes about officers and rookies, andArmy and Navy camp newspaper changes amid Axis news. Includes field anecdotes from Camp Livingston and Moffett Field.
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Comdr
Navy
Moffett Field
Texas Critique by a Soldier Looks for Michigan in War Mix
A humorous wartime poem from Camp Walters laments Texas’ heat, dust and bugs while praising Michigan as “God’s country.” Cpl Peter Talerico and Sgt Emp Stewart contribute verses, with a light jab at army rations and the homefront mood during service.
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Texas
Michigan
Peter Talerico
Langhorn
Camp Walters
Odds and Ends in Theater Lost and Found
Nadine Subotnik notes theater lost and found departments collect a wide array of items from purses and scarves to diamonds and watches. Iowa's A. H. Talbot explains why patrons lose things and how Cedar Rapids’ Iowa theater tracks, identifies, and redistributes items before sending unclaimed goods to charity.
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Nadine Subotnik
Cedar Rapids
Charles Boyer
A. H. Talbot
The
Iowa
T .D-Found
Salvation Army
Sunshine Mission
Pine
Lost and Found
Mr. Talbot
Ti P. S
Radio schedule highlights Walter Pidgeon program debut
The Star and the Story with Walter Pidgeon debuts today at 7 p.m. on CBS and WBBM with Irene Dunne as guest star. Alfred Newman will supervise music. other guests include Martha Raye and Brian Aherne as the week’s guests on the new series.
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Walter Pidgeon
CBS
WBBM
Pidgeon
Hollywood
Irene Dunne
Story
Alfred Newman
Twentieth Century-Fox Studios
Martha Raye
Brian Aherne
Jay C. Flippen
Barry Wood
Mairzy Doats
Paul Whiteman
Bill
Radio Hall of Fame
Blue
KXEL
William Powell
Silver Theater
WMT
Alvin J. Steinkopf
Gerhard Schacher
Northwestern University
Norman Thomas
Bruno Walter
New York Philharmonic
Arnold Schoenberg
Symphony of the Air
WHO
Virginia Lee Bangs
Maxine Klein
Pat Conlon
Harvey Fischman
Richard Williams
Hildegarde
Eddie Oliver
Orchestra
Andre Kostelanetz
Charles Kullman
Metropolitan Opera
Washington
Abe Lincoln
Mutual
WGN
McKay Morris
Lincoln
Susan Hayward
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Mills Brothers
Chamber Music Society of
Lower Basin Street
James Melton
Fred Allen
Fredric March
Gertrude Lawrence
Penny Lee
Bob Crosby
Les Tremayne
WMAQ
WMA
Ceiling Unlimited
John Charlies Thomas
N.Y
NBC Symphony
Gildersleeve
Dorothy Thompson
WENR
We the People
Mediation Board
Star and Story
Cleveland Or
Walter Winchell
Basin Street
Fred Allenee
Guy Lombardo
Radio Schedule Notes from February 7, 1944
Hour by hour listing shows morning programs on WGN and WHO stations including Farm News Worship and Devotions. Evening lineup features Jerry and Zelda with news segments and entertainment pacing from the 1944 broadcast schedule.
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wEe Farm News
Wrship
WGN
D.m
Elley Arm
Rxex
Finchville Bonetti
KXEL
D.m. Cuff Helen Wat Ve Mvatery
Dr. Bradley Rangers
Usic
Holbr’k Exel
Sis — Ies
Non Am Cavalcade Bizin
Syke
Natalie Sinatra and One-Eyed Connolly tales loom in memoirs
Fragmented reminiscences recount Natalie Sinatra's early classics interest and a dream of leading a band, later becoming a famed arranger. The piece shifts to the myth of One-Eyed Connolly, a gate crasher legend, and ends with a crime tale of a highway loot split decision by a police officer.
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Golly
Mar Ee
Connolly
Chicago
One-Eyed
Miss Comingore Returns to The Hairy Ape Film
Hollywood report notes Dorothy Comingore returns as a star in The Hairy Ape film adaptation after a hiatus. She recalls a brief yet bright run including Citizen Kane and baby breaks, then laments past suspensions for refusing roles.
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Robbin Coons
Hollywood
the Hairy Ape
Dorothy Comingorce
Miss Comingore
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
Kane
Judith Collins
RKO
Eugene O'Neill
Richard Collins
Aviation light signals via fluorescent reflection work in total darkness
An aviation light signal operates by fluorescent reflection of black light and departs as a dependable signaling method that remains visible even with no ambient illumination.
Free 122 page pamphlet on rectal ailments offered
An invitation to sufferers of fistula rectal abscess piles and related colon troubles to request a free up to date 122 page book detailing these conditions and associated disturbances as shown in a chart.
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William B. Herlands
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Legion
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Sammy Kaye
Jim
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Darius Weer
Om. Fee
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Cleveland
Winchell
Basin St
J. Fidler
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Bardo
Scott Austin
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Courtney O
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Reveille
War Journal
Happy Haines
Jolly Joe le
Stan
Baie Webber
Roth
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St. John
Kitty Foyle
WHO Playhouse News
WGN Homemaker
Guiding Light
Jorden
Pixon
Ye Carter
Sugar Creek
W Henson Henstery
Armstrong
Irving Ae Bisnis
Percy Fai
Eel Gul
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Rudy Vallee
Valentino
Natalie Sinatra
O'Neill
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