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...Copyright 1946 Leo Feist, Inc. Used by permission...
This week the Metro Group (Robbing, Feist, Miller publishing houses), controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and turning out a major part of Hollywood's popular music, was reported ready to sell out to B. M. I. for $3,750,000. M. G. M. has long borne a grudge against ASCAP, holding that ASCAP should make the same vigilant checkup of music played in cinema houses that it does over the radio...
...permission of Leo Feist...
...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...