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Mechanical Music in the Movies
By Karl Ellison

The 1942 Columbia movie, "Blondie For Victory", is just one movie in
the "Blondie" series.  This one is where Blondie's war efforts straps
Dagwood with house work, and it is full of quaint ideas of "a woman's
place" in American society of that time.

While Dagwood and his boss, Mr. Dithers, rush to an urgent call to
help Blondie, they get out of their car in front of a department store,
where the window on the building in the background has a gilded stencil
in their window that reads "Knabe" -- at the same kind of the same
place and style as you'd expect to see the stencil "Dentist", but with
the same font as the stencil on the piano, so it must have been a piano
store.

Karl Ellison
Salem, Massachusetts


(Message sent Fri 10 Dec 1999, 16:08:54 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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