Word: maestri
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Maestri's Wages...
...example let us take the case of the radio maestri. When a top-notch orchestra leader is engaged for a series of commercial broadcasts he may receive a salary in the neighborhood of $2,000 per broadcast. The newspaper radio columns and gossip columns immediately exaggerate this and say that he has been signed for $4,000 or $5,000. However, of the actual $2,000 at least $1,000 goes as commissions, and a good part of the residue goes for arrangements and orchestrations. Next, money must be deducted for office expenses, photograph and publicity service, entertaining, electrical transcriptions...
Trumpet-playing, band-leading "Red" Nichols should know the wages of maestri. One of the great white jazzmen of the middle 1920's he recorded with his bands variously under the names of The Ramblers, The Little Ramblers, Red Nichols & His Five Hot Pennies, the Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Goofus Five. Great Nichols numbers: Riverboat Shuffle, Plenty Off Centre, Get With, Eccentric...
...Insider was Robert Maestri, Louisiana Conservation Commissioner. Between him and the Kingfish existed complete understanding and a private joke. When Long was elected Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...