Word: feist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed a new publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other important cinema company, will have its own music publishers. And Radio Corp. will now be financially interested...
...lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed out, royalties from the sale of copies and records would go not only...
Radio Music Co. intends to form a board of musical judges. The classical will be represented by such men as Walter Damrosch, Tin Pan Alley by such connoisseurs as Feist's Edgar Bitner. Anybody who has written a musical composition may submit it. To ensure unprejudiced judgments the board will be kept in ignorance of the composer's name. If a composition is accepted, Radio Music Co. will publish it, NBC will broadcast it, RKO Productions perhaps may make of it a theme song, Radio-Victor will make records of it. But in all cases Radio Corp...
Following are the names of the men who survived the cut and the periods of the game in which they will have their final tryouts: Thayer Cumings '26, L. O. Combs '26 and Roger Magoun '27, first period; W. L. Tibbetts '26, E. W. Martin '26 and R. J. Feist '27, second period; K. M. Rogers '26, J. N. Watters '26 and R. P. McFadden '26, third period; E. C. Haggerty '27, S. B. Jones '26 and A. H. O'Neil '28, fourth period...
...Lect. Hall Mr. Epstein, D, G, R, X Harvard 6 Mr. Heath, H, S, V New Lect. Hall Mr. Mason, N, T Harvard 2 Mr. Opie, M, O New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, E, L, U Harvard 5 Economics 1b Albert-Escher Sever 8 Feist-Whitehouse Sever 11 Economics 4b Geol. Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2b Fogg Sm. Rm. French 1 Prof. Hawkins, 1 Sever 23 French 1 Mr. Kelsey's Sect. 2 Atwell-Kennedy Sever 23 MacCollom-Whiting Sever 24 Mr. Penny, 3 Sever 24 German 8 Emerson F German 25b Allen-Davenport...