Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after three months of debate, the sportsmen were agreed on their remedy. Introduced in the House by Congressman John W. McCormack of Massachusetts was a bill to raise $7,000,000 a year through a 1? tax on shotgun shells, most of the revenue to be spent to conserve and increase U. S. waterfowl...
...would be paid by the manufacturer or seller (of imported shells) on shells for 410-gauge guns and larger. Each box of shells would bear a stamp. One cent would be added to the retail cost of each shell. Proponents of the McCormack bill estimated that at least $7,000,000 would be raised annually. Of this sum, 5% would be used for Federal research, administration and law enforcement. The remainder would be apportioned as follows: to the States 55% for increase and protection of all game and for refunds to trapshooters (apportionment among the States to be based...
Variety, theatrical tradesheet, last week prophesied an end to fee inflation, printed the prices asked by some 50 artists: Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, $4,500; Violinist Fritz Kreisler, $4,500; Tenor John McCormack, $4,000; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, $3,500; Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, $3,000. . . . Such lists are misleading. Galli-Curci may ask for $4,500 but she seldom gets it now. Many people prefer to hear Lily Pons, the pretty French coloratura who is a novelty and only a little more than half Galli-Curci's age. Kreisler makes $4,500 on many a concert but he makes...
Europe knows Richard Tauber as well as the U. S. knows John McCormack. The two have much in common: they are both good showmen, both fat men with infectious smiles. Both started in opera, went in later for lieder. Both frankly cater to the people's taste to their own tremendous profit. Their phonograph records are bestsellers. They are not above making sound films or capitalizing on the theme songs...
...where Tenor McCormack has coined a great part of his success from Irish ballads of the Mother Machree type, Tenor Tauber's medium has been in operetta, chiefly in those written by his Viennese friend, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxemburg, Gypsy Love). At his debut recital last week (attended by Tenor McCormack and many another musical notable) Tenor Tauber surprised everyone by not wearing his monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were...