Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother-journalist interested in accuracy and as an admiring reader of TIME, permit me to challenge a statement on page 32 of your March 25 issue under the Music department to this effect...
...musical comedies are exceptionally entertaining this season, offering a wide variety of material. "Follow Thru" is perhaps the best, a grand show with no outstanding stars but talented performers, good music and an uproariously funny scene in a girl's locker room, adorned with chorus girls in little enough underclothing. Undress is also the basis for a chaste pageant in Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything...
Consequently he has placed the whole matter in the hands of a New York attorney who handles the legal transactions of the Actors Equity Association. Many complications in regard to the case have arisen, since the music in question has recently been copyrighted by Irving Berlin. It was supposed that the book "Laff It Off" was copyrighted in 1925. However there is no record of it in Washington...
Upon investigation he discovered that "It's Up To You" was published in sheet music form with the name of Louis Silvers as composer. It further appears that Silvers is the musical director for the Vitaphone productions and was coach of "Laff It Off", the 1925 Hasty Pudding show, when this song under its original name first appeared...
Craig has been very active in musical productions, having written several songs which have been hits in England. He is also the author of a good part of the music and Iyrics in this year's Hasty Pudding production "Fireman Save My Child...