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...turn out an average of four new songs a week Procter & Gamble (Ivory Soap) hired Composer Arthur Schwartz and Lyricist Howard Dietz at an estimated weekly salary of $1,250 each. Book for the show was written by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Last week's installment of The Gibson Family ended where the first act of a theatre musicomedy usually ends. Father Gibson is suspicious of Dude Rancher Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable...
...Thousands Cheer, last week found himself the defendant in a Federal plagiarism suit asking payment of $250 for each and every performance of the song. If As Thousands Cheer closes on schedule the first week in September the grand total demanded will be $100,750 for 403 performances. Lyricist Patty Hill, who will share in the damages, if any, had no complaint to make on the use of the words because she long ago resigned herself to the fact that her ditty had become common property of the nation...
...Sweet Adeline" (1903). Harry Armstrong wrote the music in Somerville, Mass., when he and three other Somerville boys were annoying the townsfolk by singing quartets on the gaslit street corners. In New York some years later Armstrong found a lyricist in Dick Girard who chose Adeline to rhyme with pine. "Sweet Adeline" had its best sales during Prohibition. Harry Armstrong now runs an entertainment booking bureau in Manhattan. Dick Girard clerks in the New York General Post Office...
...Your Old Gray Bonnet" (1909) was written by Percy Wenrich whose father was postmaster in Joplin, Mo. Wenrich and his lyricist, the late Stanley Murphy, intended their song to be "Put On Your Old Sunbonnet," sang it for Publisher Jerome Remick who got the words twisted. Wenrich wrote other songs: "Moonlight Bay," "When You Wore A Tulip," "Where Do We Go From Here?" Today, revenue from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers where he has a permanent Class A rating pays for Wenrich's rent, lunches, his bar bill at the Lamb's Club...
Smiling Faces (Harry Clarke, librettist; Harry Revel, composer; Mack Gordon, lyricist; Lee & Jake Shubert. producers) is notable chiefly for exhibiting Fred Stone as a most generous person. His daughter Paula had the leading female role on tour; Daughter Dorothy, as costar, has the role in Manhattan. Her husband, Charles Collins, has a prominent part. Comedian Stone saves most of his funny remarks for a scene in which he does an imitation of Will Rogers. (Four years ago when Comedian Stone was hurt in an airplane crash, Funnyman Rogers took his place in Three Cheers.) Except for that scene...