Word: bedelia
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...night of May 13, beneath the potted palms of the Empire Room in Chicago's bustling Palmer House, veteran Bandmaster Jan Garber shuffled the sheets of his music, shook a stick at his first trumpet. A blast, and then, to the Jerome & Schwartz, 1903 ragtime tune Bedelia, Tin Pan Alley banged and tootled back onto the bigtime air. The broadcast was Mutual's first using ASCAP music after the last-minute signing with the songwriters' society in St. Louis (TIME...
...take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music for her. He inherited his fortune from his father, Isaac Merritt Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines. Died. William ("Billy") Jerome, 67. music publisher and composer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Among his hits: "Bedelia," "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown," and his latest, "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." His wife, the former Maude Nugent, wrote "Sweet Rosie O'Grady." Died. Alexander Winton, 72, pioneer automobile manufacturer; of old age; in Cleveland. He was born in Scotland...