Casablanca : An Einstein Connection

Casablanca always finds a place in top 10 in the list of top 100 American
films put up by any film critics. No one ever disputes this. Who can forget
the haunting song which Ingrid Bergman asked to be ``played again'', and
which brought back such painful memories for Bogart's Rick:
``You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss ''?

However, few realize that what was sung in the movie is only part of a
song written by Herman Hupfield 12 years earlier. The introduction to
the song goes as follows:
[It is worthwhile remembering that 2005 is the World Year of Physics to
celebrate the year 1905 in which Einstein published three revolutionary
papers on Relativity, Brownian motion, Photoelectric effect (related to
Quantum Physics):

"This day and age we're living in
Give cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax, relieve the tension
And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is still a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by..... "

© 1931 by Warner Bros. Music Corporation,
ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers )