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...welter of pop music last week, a song called It's All in the Game was beginning to get attention. The credit line on its record label read simply "Sigman-Dawes." Lyricist Carl Sigman's sentimental lines were the standard drippy stuff, but the lilting waltz tune had an unusually fresh, clean sound. Its composer: the late Charles G. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes, Chicago banker, amateur musician, and Vice President of the U.S. in the Coolidge Administration...
...last, the publishers responded with an open letter to the book trade. They pointed out many inaccuracies in Counterattack's charge (i.e., one of the accused authors wasn't even on their list, one had merely been a translator of two French novels, one the co-lyricist of a musical comedy, two authors had been dropped, three had yet to be published). The objectionable (to Counterattack) writers still in print, said Little, Brown, represented 4% of Little, Brown's list. The firm's letter failed to mention D. Angus Cameron, who had in the meantime quietly...
Died. Egbert A. Van Alstyne, 73, old-time songwriter (In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Pretty Baby, Memories); of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years as a honky-tonk piano player and song plugger, Van Alstyne, with Lyricist Harry Williams, won Tin Pan Alley fame in 1903 with Navaho, then went on to turn out more than 500 tunes until radio came along to rout the family piano. When sheet-music sales began to drop, Van Alstyne decided it was time to retire...
...Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
Married. Nancy Walker, 28, rowdy comedienne of stage (Look, Ma, I'm Dancin!) and screen (Best Foot Forward); and David Craig, 27, Tin-Pan Alley lyricist; she for the second time; in Hoboken...