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The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers is Tin Pan Alley's clearing house. Its 800 composer & publisher-members own the copyrights to nearly all the music composed in the U. S. since 1914. It is affiliated with similar societies abroad. To many radio listeners and broadcasters the phrase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Pump v. Well | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Brooklyn is the only U. S. community of 2,500,000 population which has no morning newspaper. Like Oakland, Calif, on the other edge of the continent, a large part of its working populace commutes every day to the metropolis across the water. As Oaklanders read San Francisco morning papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Home Paper | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., so long the victim of feeble plots, emerges in "Union Depot," now playing at the University, as a thoroughly likeable and resourceful young hobo to prove for the first time that the promise he showed in "Dawn Patrol" justified his promotion to stardom. "Union Depot", which, as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/15/1932 | See Source »

Grofe needs outside inspiration to build on. He played his own compositions last week (Metropolis, Mississippi Suite, Kmite Rockne, Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon) and just as for years he made sleazy dance tunes sound like something, so his own music was effective because of the way he varied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Friday on His Own | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Asinine metropolis. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Better Now | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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