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Performers of world prominence who have broadcast for B. B. C. include Basso Chaliapin, Pianist Paderewski, Amos 'n' Andy (who proved unpopular), Paul Robeson (popular), G. B. Shaw and the late, great Danseuse Pavlova. (Today B. B. C. eschews and frowns upon such "stunts" as broadcasting Mme Pavlova's dancing footsteps, popular though they proved in 1924, 1925 and 1927, accompanied by ballet music...
...sold out the day it was announced. The Philharmonic Symphony sent back $10,000 in checks, turned thousands away from the boxoffice. At the hall when receipts were added it was found that Toscanini had earned some $26,000 for his jobless brothers, only $1,000 less than Paderewski raised in Madison Square Garden, which seats 18,903 against Carnegie...
...Broadcasting System and National Broadcasting Co. took over individual concert managements. Set fees are down but artists who draw heavily are seeing the advantage of playing on a percentage basis, setting lower minimum fees, then taking a share of the box-office over & above the amount needed for expenses. Paderewski, playing on percentage, will make approximately $250,000 for himself from his 65 concerts this season. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's cinema success has made him the season's second best money-getter...
...Next night Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski played to 16,000 in Madison Square Garden, earned $25,000 for the Musicians' Emergency Aid, the largest amount an individual artist has ever cleared on a concert...
...Rensselaers with bonnets tied under their chins, Schuylers leaning on ivory-headed canes, minor de Peysters covered with bugles and smelling of camphor. There were old gentlemen with blue-veined noses and square-crowned derbies, middle-aged ladies who had not been seen in public since the last Paderewski recital, clergymen, school teachers. It was strictly a New York party, but it had national significance. Historical societies abound in the land, but this was the first U. S. museum dedicated to the history of a city and its people...