Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later that afternoon, Hero Corrigan headed another parade, this one for school children. It was during this that close observers got their widest eye-opener. One part of the line of march led through a barren stretch along Western Avenue. Perched on the folded top of the official car sat Corrigan, bowing grandly right and left and not a soul on the sidewalks...
...with such hits as Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann, The Girl Friend, A Connecticut Yankee, and the five-in-a-row of the last three years. They have livened the whole U. S. with such songs as My Heart Stood Still, Ten Cents a Dance, Blue Moon, I've Got Five Dollars, There's a Small Hotel, With a Song in My Heart (Rodgers' favorite composition), The Lady Is a Tramp. In the 13 years, their shows have played everywhere from Wales to New South Wales. And they themselves have gone, more than once, to Hollywood...
...there have been a few spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...
...records, from radio recitals, from having their music played by bands. On shows they get 6% of the gross, which means about $750 a week apiece if a show is a hit. Their biggest money-maker was The Girl Friend which played all over the world. In Hollywood they got $50,000 to $60,000 a movie. And from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which collects the royalties for public performances of copyrighted music, and grades royalties on a basis of the composers' musical importance -Rodgers & Hart, like Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin...
Since this was a wedding reception, Sistie and Buzzie got a taste of champagne. They didn't seem much impressed with the sour stuff...