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John Lomax arrived in Manhattan last week to lecture on ballads and with him was Lead Belly, wild-eyed as ever. The Negro had been pardoned again because Mr. Lomax had made a phonograph record of a second petition and taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held...
...Boston of Lucienne Boyer, the widely known French diseuse, in the Continental Varieties with Vincente Escudero and a large supporting cast. The Continental Varieties have long been successful in Europe, and Mile. Boyer is widely known by her interpretation of d'amour songs. Annually, six hundred thousand of her phonograph records are sold, and George Gershwin, Arthur Hammerstein, and many others have testified to her great artistic ability. The engagement is to open at the Wilbur Theatre on January 10, and is to remain four days...
Next day Australian editors pointed out that Melbourne moppets do not romp in the middle of the night; that at 1 a. m., Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...
...Easy Street. In Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...addition, he gets, without hindrance from the board, all the money he can from radio broadcasting, which one year was $70,000. Then there is the matter of royalties from phonograph records. The year he got $110,000 from the board, and $70,000 from radio, he also got $60,000 from record royalties, or a total...