Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...player who won their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that he got careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without picking up after him." Playing unevenly at Hillcrest Country Club near...
...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...
...with 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...
...Crosby '91, H. S. Grew '96, J. W. Farley '99, James Lawrence '01, C. J. Swan '01, L. H. Leary '05, H. C. Clark '11, R. T. Fisher '12, M. J. Logan '15, W. B. Felton '19, C. C. Buell '23, P. H. Theopold '25, and Leo Daley...
...popes: Pius VII (1800-23), Leo XII (1823-29), Pius VIII (1829-30), Gregory XVI (1831-46), Pius IX (1846-78), Leo XIII (1878-1903), Pius X (1903-14), Benedict XV (1914-22), Pius...