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...Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies out of the wreckage. Victor sold a million copies of the Dalhart record. George claimed royalties, estimated at $375,000, which last year a Federal district court awarded...
...sound movies which came in at a time when the market was already imperilled by too many second-rate artists. In the boom years Galli-Curci and John McCormack were the big money-making concert singers. They would get 100 engagements a season and they needed no advertising. Phonograph records built up their names, besides earning them royalties which year after year ran over $100,000. Deflation has weeded out second-raters and for the top-notchers the halls are filling up again...
...student who enjoys a phonograph record by Kreisler played twice as fast as it was ever meant to be played will enjoy Fine Arts 1d immensely. The only defect in the course is the tremendous speed at which it is given. One half year is all the time allotted to dashing through early Christian art to Medieval art through it to Renaissance art, through Renaissance art to modern art, and finally landing somewhat winded in the lap of a post-Impressionist. Professor Edgell strives nobly to make up for the shortness of the time by grinding out words and witty...
Some of the finest features of the Houses are the splendid collections of phonograph records, scores, and piano music that have grown up in their libraries. These collections are complete enough to satisfy any taste, and are generally accompanied by music rooms with pianos and victrolas so that any resident may hear whatever music he likes. The students have not been slow to take advantage of these opportunities; in Lowell House alone, Brahms' First Symphony and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" were each played fifty times in a few months, even more than the bells...
...song as simple and unadorned as any piece of folk music set U. S. commercial records last week. Billy Hill's "Last Round-Up'' was played 24 times over major radio networks. It led the phonograph-record sales for Victor, Columbia and Brunswick. A sheet-music estimate was taken: in six weeks 200,000 copies had been sold, better than any song since 1929. And all this had happened not because of a publisher's plugging. The publishers of "The Last Round-Up" knowing now that they have a big song, have prayed that it will...