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FOR THE FOURTH straight year, Santa Claus, writing in this corner, has wished everyone- a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. © It’s been a busy season. In some respects a, hectic one. The job is done. By now most of the packages have been delivered, opened and appreciated. That 1s how it should be. * . But Santa sort of feels the task might have been done better. Not in respect to the material things, jewels, furs, toys, perfumes, sweets. No. More than that.
LET'S CONSIDER the young man who is spending hie first Christmas in a strange city, this city, His family and close friends are hundreds of “miles away. The lad’s occupation prevents him from returning home for the holi« days, What would I give him? What would he,
rented room and listens to Christmas carols? The Christmas card and note from Mom and Dad has been read and reread. They're sorry he can’t be home. Mom was counting on seeing him. How can he tell her how much he was counting on being home? On any other day but Christmas the room is all right, Today it feels like a ‘trap.
There's a lovable old lady in town who needs
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out of her eyes. There's nothing in Santa's sack that will do it. What would you give to someone who has known the thrill of many happy Yuletide seasons surrounded by a loving family? Where flickering memory brings back scenes when she was the sun, the earth, the stars, the universe? There's no earthly gift that would bring back for a moment the sound of blessed years that will be no more. How can Santa give her the love and homage she needs? Where would you find the’ childish voices and soft hands that once were so real? Santa, indeed, needs a miracle. Millions of bright toys have opened millions of bright little eyes. There isn’t anything in this world
“that makes Santa any happier than to see the
ones jump with glee. What does he do for those who can't? 3 11s lose much of their merry tinkle ward. Bright lights and colored foyer of a hospital lose the originally intended to be
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Paging Maugham By Robert C. Ruark
Son, Come Hither, Play On Your Zither For Dear Old Mither
Platter Boys Cashing In on Arty ~ Cigar Box Used in Days Gone By : By DONNA MIKELS
THE RECORD Industry is in a dither over a xither. +4 The haunting score from the Selznick picture “Third Man,"
composed and played the haunting background music for the film, seems to be on the top of the MR 8 heap here too. : Record companies are all push- Tex
Everybody's on a western kick. Beneke comes
a wax by the Irving Fields group, You can dance to, ‘Can I Canoe complete with zither. Decca {fs You Up the River?” oming up with ibardo. MGM dug fame is doing fine on records. ound a zither player| anz Dietschmann to (With®an interesting “band sings e'to the original mood. too” arrangement and the squaree story is they chose him be-|dancey “Copper Canion.” ise he .was the only zither| The Irving Fields Trio takes an player ‘listed in the New. York old Jewish tune, puts it in Latin telephone directory. tempo, with western flavor any , Not since blues shouter Lead- out comes “The Wedding Sam Is dark and the house cold? The great need isn’t belly, who died recently, made Second side is the previously menin the gift sack. Understanding isn’t being manu-|pecord history with his Jazzy tioned “Third Man Theme Song.” factured as are watches or brooches or precious |Zitheristics has the cigar-box| Wayne King pairs a tearjerkstones. Pride and suspicion have taken their toll. with strings received so much at- ing ballad “Mofamy Can I Take| It’s beyond the power of Santa alone to perform | tention. . 'My Doll to Heaven” with a snap- | the miracle. | * Back to the “pop”.discs, “White ior gecond side, ‘Little Hula In the wake of the consumingifires of a nation |Christmas,” which didn't chalk gopey” = : at war, Santa still sees the tremendous amount, of |up the same sale this year as work to be done for those who are now living in previous seasons, nevertheless peace, How do you wrap up a big box of hope and went over the 6 million mark. spunk for the young man whose flagging spirits| There's a wonderful Savannah make the road ahead devious? Where once he saw Churchill recording on - Arco himself in a convertible and now in a wheelchair? label, It's “I'll Never Bo Pres Would it be pofisible to fly over the globe on with the Red Norvo combo. e day of Peace and scatter the priceless . = love, freedom, humanity? Not ® a few. Not| RCA-VICTOR—The collaborato one group but to all men? tion of Tony Martin and Fran Santa Claus, at the moment, doesn’t know. Warren on “I Sald My Pajamas Shortly. the boots will come off and the chair in|snd Put on My Prayers,” Is detront of the fire will feel good. It won't be long|lightful. Likewise the second side, before the warmth and the quiet of the room will ave) To You Lately That I whisk the merry old gentleman away. . Before he os, though, a very Merry Christmas| This one is something more
than you expect Freddy Martin and a Happy New Year to one and all. to come up with. It's a ruckey-
tuckey, drum and bugle number
Santa. says . . . a lot has been done but he | needs a miracle. broken, where does Santa go to place his gifts® At whose doorstep? Especially when the threshold
» ~ COLUMBIA—The _ battle between the -long-playing and 45speed’s relative merits is still ing on. But there seems to,
33 rpm LP's provide a wonderful instrument for listening to econtinuous themes, such as classical records or albums. Some of Clumbia’'s recent album releases on LP have that asset, plus the added attraction of again making available hits of the past. oo The Eddy Howard album has “Stardust,” wExactly Like Yous , |“Miss You,” “Mean To Me,” “ “Hometown Band.” | Bill Lawrence, who almost got ous” and a few other of his best to Indianapolis for a personal Waxes. appearance last week, has one of | ' Dinah Shore's LP envelope is a
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no small idea as to what I can make of the sto I am about to spin. i This is a tale of the South Pacific, 1949 version. We start with an American ‘millionaire named Ralph. Ralph was plump and forty-ish, and worth several millions of dollars, most of which werk in trust. Ralph was working out his second marriage, and he decided that a life in Papeete, Tahiti, would be easy and would eat very lightly into his principal, so Ralph caught a coastal schooner and arrived in due time at the Blessed Isles, in which he built a very fine house and was as happy as a pig in the mud for quite a time. } Came a day when Ralph was sitting under a palm and chewing reflectively on a light mixture of gin and juice, a lovely young gal swayed into his vision, She had thin, fine features, and she wore her hair in two long braids. She was slight as an angel, but lavishly constructed, and her brown eyes were as large as cowrie shells,
One Look Is Enough
HER NAME was Tiare, and she was half French, half Tahitian. The time Ralph saw her she was possibly 15 years old. I have met her and she is, at 18, as lovely as brown maidens are supposed to be in the giddily romantic books. Ralph took one look at Tiare, and promptly became a defunct duck. He spoke with his wife, and told her flatly that love had come to stay. His wife, after a settlement, agreed to a divorce. Ralph took Tiare to his house to live, and for a while I presume they were very happy. Tahitians are simple in their emotions, and often childish. Tiare became bored with being a . rich man’s chattel, and informed her infatuated protector that she wished to visit Honolulu. Ralph. had ~con nfivence, and. Tiare came to
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|his best in “My Little Red Book.” [treasure chest of wonderful Shore convertible automobile. Second side is “Ory-Baby Heart.” discs of the past: ‘T'll Be Seeing an agency. : Spade Cooley drops the hillbilly ¥ou,” “Little White Lies,” “ Get yun in the car, and band for “Foolish Tears,” and Along Without You Very Well, san. They had “Send 10 Pretty Flowers.” Still “They Can't Take That Away nks out of oatie though. = ‘ [From Me,” and others. back to the beaches of
ane, but she a dived ov. 3 B's Give Bebop a-Beating i On Long-Playing Records
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his anger, and he finally sen Find Truer-Tone on Slow-Turning Discs
Calls in a Psychiatrist Those slow-turnin ordg are moving fast, Hoogier music
WHEN SHE returned to Honolulu, enlisted the aid of his former wife to hel so, adding %o the paradox, classicals rahms and Beethoven are doing
regain the affection of his little island beauty. { also sought the services of a psychiatrist. The | long-playing microgrooves. wing by leaps and bounds.
Honolulu, - It was™ not long before she Informed Ralph that she want Ralph said sure, and cal ““_Tiare went out for a tria y fell in love with the sale ance, while Ralph chewed coming so angry he deci
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soul prober examined the psyches of both Ralph! tei and Tiare. { The His diagnosis was that the little half-caste py. yinyiite Tahitian was in love with herself, victim of a nar- .o tone. beauty-a cissus complex. Her lover was supposed to be 1and. a new quality suffering from an advanced inferiority complex, , ites among classi due to too much money and insufficient achieve- p1..0" are some noteworthy pumment. The prescription was for Ralph to return pars to the mainland, to take a job and prove his right to be enamored of his lady fair by cold achieve- BERLIOZ: Requiem (SL-159, ment in the commercial world, ' Vols. 1 and II). This towering This is where I would love to have the assist-| composition has been recorded in ance of Mr. Maugham, the authority on South Sea |, entirety on the four sides of amour. What do you make of a millionaire who | wo Columbia 12-inch long-playing| flees the soothing seas and swishing palms to bury| his misery in! the white-collared world o S| Angeles? What happens to the jilted wife who| And Orchestra conducted by Jean
masterworks Hbrary is rfaces of. these unbreak clarity that ~~ to old fa- which has “works. hit in New Yor \ ! SCHUMANN: F
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records by Emile Passani Choir record. SN
mas Colors
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—I am imbued with the spirit of Christmas, all right. It smells faintly of turpentine. Co : This tale of strange odors around the yule log had its beginnings 10 years ago when I was in Hollywood writihg pieces about the movie actors. Along about this time of year all the vacant lots on Wilshire Boulevard would he turned into technicolor forests of Christmas trees.
There Were Trees of Many Hue
THERE WERE a few green ones, specially sprayed with paint to make 'em “even greener, but the tastes of the citizens out there ran more to Christmas trees dunked in gold, or silver/ or baby. blue. One year there was. a run of pink ChristTHere always were a few painted
eyes a tree colored lavender. . I held out all those years for trees the way nature made ‘em, dark green in shade and smelling pungently of the woods. Sometimes they were so aromatic I had the suspicion that the Christmas tree merchants sprayed them with pine oll, but this T never could prove. My bride, being more modern of mind, always had a hankering for one of those snow-white trees, but she never actually broke down and- bought one. 80 the years passed and we came to Washington, where Christmas trees came au naturel. Then we moved to the country, where all you need to get a Christmas tree of unsurpassed freshness is an ax. So, fine. I chopped down our tree the other day and offered to install it in the front hall as usual, but Mrs, O, said no, she’d rather I left it in the barnyard a couple of days. ; Next ‘morning she was up early. I found her in the barn. She was on top of a ladder with her vacuum cleaner, ‘which ‘she hades hitched up backwards so it would blow instead of suck. And it
The Quiz Master
How-can paint be removed from blackboards? A regular paint remover, which is a blend of solvents with. a wax to retard evaporation, should be satisfactory, and not harmful tg the slate. After applying you might wipe the black rd with denatured alcohol to yemove traces of wax. * 0 Are there any women listed as paid lobbyists in ? \ “The latest oficial listifig of lobbyists released by the clerk of the House of Representatives shows that 57-women now are registered as pald lobbyists
. * ® , clothing? | To our many friends Wha There is no authentic record. Shge manufacsued I er Western Hemisphere frst carers claim that foot covering antedates clothing and patrons . . . first issued OF ©
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SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor (Op. 120), played by The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell, on the two mu. Sides of a 10-inch LP record, (ML 2 , Called the most Schumannian of the symphonies, the Fourth is considered as the composer’'s highest achievement for originality of form and concentration of material, It is lyrical and tender music, of the pastoral rather than the epic school. » » »
FOUR INTERMEZZI: Those from Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut”, Mascagni's “Cavalleria Rusti-
’, . _'cana”, and Nos. 1 and 2 from KOE CORDON, Woll-Ferrari’s “Jewels of the Ma-
» . h v's P . (Col. MIL donna”, on one side of a 10-inc The Rakes Pe rmed gol the LP record (ML 2053); and on the
. other side, Menotti's “Sebastian Royal Opens Hou rhe —Ballet Suite”. An Interesting asturpentine. But as the hours. passed, that paint| ied by Constant Lambert, on sortment of old and new operatic seemed to sink into the needles. Our tree turned the two sides of a 12-inch LP music, very pleasant to hear, exto an off-white, to dove-gray, and, by midnight, £0) acord “These are the scores for cellently played by Dimitri Mia kind of slate color with tinges of green, two brilliantly successful ballets, tropolous and the Robin Hood Not even Hollywood ever saw a Christmas not as saccharine as some ballet Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia. treé like this one. I told the boss decorator that 1 music but delightfully melodious FE thought it was beautiful and what if the house Aid| distinctively original. “Cin-| EZI0 PINZA in Operatic Arias. smell like we'd just painted the kitchen celling?. I gerelta” is the Russian master The great basso, who has won liked it. I sniffed deep to prove it. The spirit of |p, qey's setting of the beloved new fame and fortune as the star Christmas obviously is a wonderful thing. May oo iry tale. “The Rake's Progress” of “South Pacific,” gives out in your tree be as handsome as mine and your holl-\, "po 1yygical interpretation by marvelous fashion with his most day as happy. Gavin Gordon, noted English famous arias from Bellini's “Norcomposer, of Hogarth’s series of ma,” Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,”
. LJ . 3 1 . whose greatest has rushed to her husband’s side to help him keep Fournet, Berlioz, gr h ' . d it for a chorus of 300 ITES: by Andre Kostelanetz an But, mostly, what do we do with Tiare? Be-| V0 0 a aon soloist, and an his orchestra. On the two sides cause Tiare, bored by waiting for Ralph to prove ’ [od himself, psychologically fit to earn her love, took| oo vo four brass bands which 4241) will be found abou off day before yesterday for Singapore with a produce so._thrilling. an_effect in miisatea: worth of the best and : — longs, with Handel's “The Mes- is ’ » } longs, With Sandel oo “Elijah,” Vincent Youman’s Irving Berlin, . Re) a By Frederick C. Othma works, but is performed less tre- Win and Noel | quently than the others because of Kostelanetz and his men give [and * Day,” “Easter Parade,” of white paint all over everything. | s = panei In The Dark,” “I Got My bride looked something like an angel; that) yyES: Somat No. 2 “Concord is, if angels are white all over, except for their nj,qq 1840-1860”). This first re- them, what more is there to be eyes. The horse had a startled look and frosted cording of the most extended pi- gqiq? through the barn came out the other side a, White composer, Charles Ives, was made| Leghorn. - Mrs. O. said it must bea little windy. py John Kirkpatrick. (Cel. ML! white Christmas tree that much deserved one. I 1874 and completed this “Concord didu’t even laugh. |Sonata” in 1915, it is strictly
the girl he adores? |and most imposing creation a MUSICAL COMEDY FAVORenormous orchestra which in-0f this 12-inch LP record (ML — Hho [) among the world’s greatest choral Arthur ‘Schwartz, George Gershwas blowing with an atomizer arrangement clouds its huge size. their best to pieces like “Night Rhythm” and 12 others like eyebrows, while a Rhode Island Red hen that raced | 5 no work of the noted American I décided then that any female who wanted a 4950) Although Ives was born in The trouble seemed to be that vacuum cleaners ..¢+ is known as “modern”
for handling more watery stuff, like anti-moth ,¢ ne10dy. thdt repels some listgoo. Bo Mrs. O. thinned her paint with another ners as strongly as it attracts slug of turpentine and continued with her work.| .,o.c There are four movements, She announced the fjob would look better when it 4}. garet entitled “Emerson,” the dried. The temptation was great to string electric| go.ond “Hawthorne,” the third lights on her, but I didn’t even mention -it. [“The Alcotts,” and the fourth The next day the tree was dry. My bride sald “Thoreau.” Critics have called it obviously it needed another coat. She spent the, uly American music without the morning giving it same; this time she was more use of cowboy song or Negro spirexpert. She did not get quite so much paint ony, .,) themes for identification. herself. So last night I hauled our beautiful white tree inside. We spent the evening applying jingle! bells and lights.
Hollywood Can't Match It
MAYBE IT was the heat. Perhaps it was the wrong kind of paint. Possibly she used too much
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