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...Ties & Syncopation. At last week's convention Stamps-Baxter was much in evidence. One of its quartets, in blue suits and red ties, brought down the house with four new Stamps-Baxter songs: I'm Having a Good Time Here, Dreaming, with a falsetto blues-style solo, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, with new words and music,* and Far Above the Starry Sky. Delegates cheered the quartet's close harmony and syncopation, bought 500 copies of their songbooks and records...
...Alley. To feed the South's continually growing appetite for such music, a gospel Tin Pan Alley has grown up with headquarters in Dallas. Presiding over it is bright-eyed, 60-year-old Jesse Randall Baxter, whose Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co., Inc. employs 50 people, does $300,000 worth of business a year. It turns out paperbound song quarterlies, a monthly magazine, the Gospel Music News (circ. 20,000), and books of gospel favorites which have sold as many as 4,000,000 copies...
Five full-time religious songwriters and two song editors grind out a large part of the some 600 new gospel songs published by the firm every year. To outside writers (who submit more than 5,000 songs a year) Stamps-Baxter pays $5 to $10 for each song published. The company also runs a school in Dallas to train itinerant song leaders, has four traveling quartets...
...location in Durango, Colo., Cinemactress Anne Baxter panned for gold in the Las Animas River, found none, but lost her gold wedding ring in the process...
...three members of this delightful family get into the movies, and each one on his own becomes a star. The rest of the film is composed of snitches and snatches from the family album of box-office hits-including some black & white satires of silent films in which Anne Baxter plays a frizzed girl of the '20s with a highly energetic twittering of legs and lashes...