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MUSIC LIST I ANNIE LAURIE (MGM) 1 reel-B&W Tabloid Musical Series 10 minutes The history of the writing of the song, "Annie Laurie," showing significant aspects of Scottish folklore. COMMUNITY SING SERIES 8, NO. 7 1 reel-B&W (Columbia) 10 minutes Don Barker at the organ playing Christmas hymns and carols: Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful Silent Night, Holy Night Hark, the Herald Angels Sing The First Noel It Came Upon the Midnight Clear FAMILIAR PATRIOTIC SONGS 1 reel-B&W (Columbia) 10 minutes A typical Community Sing including the following songs: Sing, America, Sing You're My Uncle Sam You're a Grand Old Flag My Own American Home Yankee Doodle Dandy America the Beautiful THE GREAT WALTZ (MGM) 2 reels-B&W An excerpt from the feature photoplay 20 minutes This classroom version of the feature photoplay presents outstanding melodies of Johann Strauss, the younger, with dramatizations of the sources of many of his inspirations. Successive sequences show his startling debut, his continued musical successes, his composition of "The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz," portions of the operetta, Die Fledermaus, the apocryphal ride which supposedly inspired "Tales from the Vienna Woods," and the tribute paid to Strauss by the City of Vienna. This film was prepared in collaboration with the Music Educators National Conference. Teacher guides are available on request. INSIDE OPERA WITH GRACE MOORE 3 reels-B&W Adapted from ONE NIGHT OF LOVE (Columbia) 28 minutes The action of the classroom film occurs prior to World War II in the early nineteen-thirties. Mary Barrett, portrayed by Miss Grace Moore, wins a radio contest for singers, which enables her to study abroad for opera. She then goes to Italy, and has numerous escapades and adventures in the course of which she sings "Sempre Libera" from La Traviata, the tenor role in a burlesque of the Sextet from Lucia, and "Ciribiribin." Then Mary begins operatic study and eventually appears in provincial opera. After a series of preliminary engagements, she is scheduled to sing the feature role in Carmen. In a beautifully staged presentation, Mary gives a brilliant interpretation of the role. Her performance attracts the notice 71