Word: laff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part of the music heard in recent Hasty Pudding shows was held yesterday in Femberton Court, Boston. Craig is suing Charles Homeyher Inc. for $25,000 because of their negligence in failing to copyright the song "The Moment I Laid Eyes on You" a hit from "Laff it Off", the Hasty Pudding Show...
...placed the whole matter in the hands of a New York attorney who handles the legal transactions of the Actors Equity Association. Many complications in regard to the case have arisen, since the music in question has recently been copyrighted by Irving Berlin. It was supposed that the book "Laff It Off" was copyrighted in 1925. However there is no record of it in Washington...
That the song, "It's Up To You", featured in the talking picture "Weary River" now playing at the University Theatre was a song-hit in the Hasty Pudding Show of 1929, "Laff It Off", is the charge brought by E. F. Craig '25. Craig says that he is the author of the music to "It's Up To You", which was first written in 1924, and used under the title "The Moment I Laid Eyes on You" in the 1925 Pudding production...
Upon investigation he discovered that "It's Up To You" was published in sheet music form with the name of Louis Silvers as composer. It further appears that Silvers is the musical director for the Vitaphone productions and was coach of "Laff It Off", the 1925 Hasty Pudding show, when this song under its original name first appeared...
...Laff That Off-A rickety vehicle for slang...