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...Victor Talking Machine Co. by nasal-voiced Vernon Daihart, Guy Massey's cousin. At that time Nat Shilkret was Victor's musical director. After the recording, Dalhart took the music he had used to the publishers. Last week Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., which still has this manuscript, was positive Massey, not Shilkret, was the author. Guy Massey himself cannot be called in to settle the dispute. He died stone deaf in San Antonio in 1925. Meantime, nobody doubts that Shilkret, now musical director for RKO Radio Pictures, is the composer of The Lonesome Road, Down the River of Golden...
...rare mood of affability, the world's most distinguished collector of modern paintings, Dr. Albert Coombes Barnes, arrived from Paris on the Normandie last week accompanied by his friend and collaborator, Miss Violette de Mazia, the manuscript of a new book and half a million dollars worth of pictures. Talking easily, the inventor of Argyrol announced...
...Langdon's lengthy sermons manuscripts has been uncovered in the University archives, and has been placed on public display in Widener Library along with other valuable early records. The manuscript is in a private, original shorthand, devised by Langdon so he could compress his notes. In this form, written minutely, the notes fill twenty-four pages. It is probable the sermon required more than two hours rapid talking for delivery, authorities agree. Nobody has yet undertaken to decode the message...
...year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify her as a fit mother. After four hours of reading the manuscript from cover to cover Judge Knight ordered the diary impounded with the court...
...would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken to be a social success. Soon he published a book called Claudine at School which made both a scandal and a success, and although he admitted that he had not written all of it, witnesses who saw the manuscript afterwards testified that he had written almost none, that it was his wife's work. For six years thereafter the collaboration persisted, with Colette writing the books and her husband signing them. Divorcing him in 1906, she acted for a time, married Diplomat Henri de Jouvenel in 1910, became...