Music: Caesar for Safety

In Manhattan last week the songwriting team which gave the world Is It True What They Say About Dixie?, Composer Gerald Marks & Lyricist Irving Caesar, journeyed from Tin Pan Alley northward to Teachers College at Columbia University to address a summer class in "Safety Care." The class—students, health educators and playground supervisors from all over the U. S.—soon were beating time to fox trots and waltzes with such words as:

Don't do tricks you think you know,

'Cause you saw them at the show;

Keep cool as an icicle

When you ride a bicycle....

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