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Show pil.Phillipr I? THE GREAT TENNESSEE MYSTERY WILL ALL MEN who had their sweethearts stolen at Tennessee Tennes-see waltzes kindly raise their right hands? And all women, too? Come, come, there must be SOMEBODY 1 Any person, man, woman or child, who lost a partner while dancing in Tennessee, up with your hands, please! This thing cries out for careful checking. A song "Tennessee "Tennes-see Waltz," in which the singer deplores de-plores the purloining and misappropriating misap-propriating of his gal during the dance, has swept the nation. It deluges de-luges the country from jukebox, radio, video, movie house, tavern, saloon, night club, phonograph and songfest. From the feeling put into it by the singers and the deep reaction reac-tion manifested by audiences it would seem that In every American mind is the heart-breaking memorj of a stolen waltz partner. Tears, sniffles and sobs are to be heard in countless homes as thousands of singers wail sentimentally senti-mentally of the Girl of The Year T h e Stolen Tennessee Walts Partner. If even a small percentage of the npnnle who seem to understand such an experience have really come through it, three things seem apparent: 1. There is hardly a man or woman in an American home who hasn't danced in Tennessee under conditions of great uncertainty. 2. Those who went to such a dance with a partner and never saw him or her again are legion. 3. The Stolen Tennessee Woman Situation may be partly responsible responsi-ble for the jittery, quarrelsome, ir-rascible ir-rascible and at times screwball mood of the American populace. Our efforts to explain the mood of nostalgia which comes over people listening to the song have not been too fruitful. Approaching one gent who seemed visibly moved by It, we asked, "When did you last dance in Tennessee?" He replied, "With me it was West Virginia, and it was during the Pennsylvania Polka! Bug out, will ya?" We tackled a man in whose eyes were tears, as he swayed with the mournful melody. Patting him on the back, we asked, "Where did you lose her, Chattanooga or Caru-thersviUe?" Caru-thersviUe?" "It was either Passaic or Beaver Lake, New Jersey," he sobbed. "I've never felt like penetrating the deep south since that unlucky IllUl. "How did it happen?" we asked. "I let her dance with a big handsome hand-some guy who seemed dependable," he cried. "And he stole her?" we observed. ob-served. "Hell, no!" he snapped. "He brought her back and left her on my hands. I married her and have had to live with her ever since. What do you think I'm weeping about?" YE GOTHAM BUGLE A video comic now closes his hour with an appeal to the kiddies to be sure to brush their teeth. This shows how wrong any actor can be about what makes for popularity with the young . . . Taking a cue from a current hit, they should have changed the title of Elmer Rice's "Not For Children" to "The Rice Snafu." . . . Inasmuch as Jim Farley once developed a president of the U.S., he should find advancing advanc-ing the interests of baseball a minor effort ... At the recent Gotham pooch show a boxer named "Cr. Bang Away of Sirrah Crest" won the top award, and a spectator, more accustomed to visiting Madison Madi-son Sauare Garden for other sDorts. exclaimed, "Yeah, I know he's a good boxer, but can he fight?" . . . James W. Gerard's "My First 83 Years In New York" is good reading. read-ing. He relates that his grandpa built what was at the time the house farthest uptown on Manhattan Island. At 17 Gramercy Park! . . . "Of Men and Music" is a novel film in which Rubenstein. Heifetz. Mitropoulos, Peerce and other top musickers perform magically. Why not "The Player's The Thing"? . . . Shudda Haddim missed Flying Cloud at $39.50. "I get a tip to play a skinner with an Indian name," he weeps. "I go for Whirling Dough on the same card and don't realize until too late that Flying Cloud is the one I should of took." a A woman landing at a New York airport had 42 Swiss watches on her. She could be heard ticking far at sea. Contributions to political campaigns cam-paigns were made out of funds of a New York firemen's association. Possibly just a desire to be under the right candidate when they yel "Jump!" In taking over the British steel Industry the Labor Government Gov-ernment retained all the top officials. of-ficials. It just wants the snafn rights. "U.S. Food Situation Is Held Favorable." Fa-vorable." headline. By whom? |