Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heine's Lyric Poems", Professor Silz, Harvard...
...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...
...Heine's Lyric Poems", Professor Silz, Harvard...