Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of Lawrence's will, The Mint cannot be published until 1950. To comply with U. S. copyright laws and prevent printing, Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. printed twelve copies of the book, deposited two with the Library of Congress, as the law requires, offered the remainder for sale at $500,000 each. The ten books, kept in the vault of the Nassau County Trust Co. in Mineola. L. I., are not displayed by the publisher in accordance with Lawrence's will, although anyone with $500,000 to spend can buy a copy. Consequently Critic Canby, reading...
WILLIAM HOGARTH-Marjorie Bowen -Appleton-Century ($5). This able biography of the great satirist paints a vivid picture of the London background of Hogarth's work, tells the careers of the subjects of his portraits, describes his fight for the first copyright law (1735), explains how it happened that the pug-nosed little Cockney genius was so detested by academic critics that his achievements went unrecognized until a century after his death...
...Society was formed because of the copyright arrangement of the Museum with the producers and University regulations which forbid the taking of admission at the door. Membership in the Film Society costs $1.00 for students in Harvard and Radcliffe, $2.00 for members of the Faculty and their families, and $3.00 for those not connected with the University. These fees will meet the expenses of procuring the pictures and will entitle each member to a ticket for the five programs and to special privileges in connection with future showings...
Another claimant to authorship of The Prisoner's Song was Conductor Nathaniel ("Nat") Shilkret. Last week this sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
Married- Mrs. Cora Lillian Bennett, widow of famed Aviator Floyd Bennett; ant Arthur Hoffman, Manhattan music copyright investigator; in Brooklyn...