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Died. Edwin Carewe, 56, oldtime cinema director (Ramona, Resurrection, etc.) ; of heart disease; in Hollywood...
...sheet-music publishing industry) are in 2/4 or 4/4 time. But when, once in a blue moon, a waltz (3/4 time) catches on, it usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
Bright-eyed Tunesmith Grever never expected her Spanish-style Ti-Pi-Tin to rival the Spanish-style waltz Ramona in popularity. She had long been known as a composer of some 450 Spanish ditties and more or less serious concert songs, had reached grandmotherhood without seeing any of them create a furor. But last week, as Ti-Pi-Tin reached its fourth consecutive week as Tin Pan Alley's top seller, Grandmother Grever began to challenge Tunesmith Wayne's record...
Heading the list of entertainers were Ramona and Gertrude Niesen, currently featured at the Brunswick Casino and the Mayfair respectively. Stamping feet and clanging bottles demanded several encores of both...
John F. Kennedy, chairman of the Freshman Smoker will present his heterogeneous conglomeration from the sports and theatrical world at 7:45 o'clock tonight. The latest addition to his cast of celebrities is Ramona, now entertaining at the Hotel Brunswick...