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POD: an earlier development and popularization of television. (Or maybe widespread commercial television in the 1930's isn't even necessary. The contest could be launched as a festival within the 1937 World's Fair in Paris--the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne)

Possible entries:

UK: George Formby, "When I'm Cleaning Windows"

USSR: Leonid Utesov, "Serdtse" (Heart) from "The Happy Guys"
(The Soviets realize that "Song of the Motherland" from "Circus"
is a bit too political to have a chance of winning...)

Poland: Probably a tango (they were *very* big in interwar Poland until Eddie Rosner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rosner helped popularize US-style swing). Mieczyslaw Fogg - Powiedz
is a possibility.

Germany: It's a little too early for Lili Marlene... Maybe the Golden Seven play "Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein"
from the movie of the same name: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027539/

France: Maurice Chevalier, Le Chapeau de Zozo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerJ2RI788I

Any other suggestions?
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