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...Lyric--"Young Sinners". Good fun, but not so clean...
...pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried to destroy humanity, the nineteenth century." Says Lawrence, if men had a sane feeling about sex, two things would disappear; the love lyric, the smoking-room story. "You can't do it by being wise and scientific about it, like Dr. Marie Slopes: though to be wise and scientific like Dr. Marie Stopes is better than to be utterly hypocritical. . . . The way to do it is, first, to fight the sentimental...
...Heine's Lyric Poems", Professor Silz, Harvard...
...Heine's Lyric Poems", Professor Silz, Harvard...
Obviously if sound movie producers use a song published by somebody else, they get no royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, 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...