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Died. Wilberforce James Whiteman, 82, music teacher, remembered by 125,000 people whom he taught to sing, play in Denver's schools; of pneumonia; in Denver, Colo. His son, Bandsman Paul Whiteman, flew twice across the continent to visit him during his illness...
While the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that Bandsman Fred Waring and other musicians who make phonograph records have the sole right to determine where and for how much money their discs may be broadcast, in Manhattan a formula drawn up by representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from...
...deportation at Ellis Island. Eugene Debs comes out of jail and Woodrow Wilson sails for the Peace Conference. Henry Cabot Lodge plots destruction for the League of Nations. Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding, onetime bandsman of Marion, Ohio, campaigning with a French horn, shakes hands with lodge brothers in pretentious uniforms. The white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which...
...Goldman's band "the greatest in the world." Graciously Mr. Gold man uttered thanks, stated that in ten years of concerts he had never failed to be present, mentioned the names of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Gug genheim, Mr. & Mrs. Murry Guggenheim, whose gifts support Goldman concerts, presented to Bandsman Del Staigers ("the world's greatest cornetist") a golden cornet...
Last week too Jesse L. Lasky's original barn studio in Hollywood, Calif., was torn down. It gave him -a onetime San Francisco newspaperman, Alaskan goldhunter, Hawaiian bandsman-his great opportunity towards wealth 12 years...