Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before the show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled "The Soldier's Song," always played when the Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered...
...stogie. The retiring president asks him to throw away the cigar. Groucho Marx casts a look at the faculty of Huxley and says: "There'll be no diving for this cigar." He goes on puffing. Carried away by his own address to the students, he breaks into a song called "I'm Against It," leads the faculty in a soft-shoe dance...
...affiliated with similar societies abroad. To many radio listeners and broadcasters the phrase "by special permission of the copyright owners" has been irksome. A. S. C. A. & P. used to insist upon it, permitting no facetious trifling with the announcement. Lately, however, it lifted this requirement. Most of its songs may be performed without special permission, but a number are restricted, for example musical comedy songs which the producers do not wish to be too soon familiarized. On the current special list are also Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass, his operas Peter Ibbetson and The King...
...past levied a flat assessment upon the Radio chains, permitting them to use any song by its members. In 1931 it received $960,000 from broadcasting, which it prorated among its composers, authors and publishers of the world. In the U. S. the average composer got $630 during the year; a hit-composer between $2,000 and $2,500. Tin Pan Alley feels this is not enough. Total time sold on the air last year brought Radio some 75 millions. From January to June this year, National Broadcasting Co. Inc. grossed $15,000,000, an increase...
Died. Aubrey Lyles, 48, Negro comedian (Miller & Lyles); of pulmonary tuberculosis; in Manhattan. The team appeared in Shuffle Along, George White's Scandals. A song that brought Lyles fame: "I'm Just Wild About Harry...