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...amount of teasing. Of his platinum flute, he says: "I don't play it to show that I have a bank balance or that Depression is over." About his whiskers: ''Why should people make fun of me any more than of Charles Evans Hughes. . . . Think of Sousa or the Smith Brothers. . . . While other artists waste a valuable part of each day playing with a razor or being mutilated by their favorite barber, I am having a glorious time working...
...balmy summer of 1929, President Hoover's Secretary of War James William Good went to Minneapolis to help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry...
...jovial Irishman named Victor Herbert (Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under...
Pooping bravely away at a Sousa march, a brass band marched down the Potsdamerstrasse last week toward Berlin's great Sportpalast. A marching band is the commonest occurrence in Nazi Germany, but at the sight of this one Berliners stopped, gaped, cheered. The Blatz Post American Legion Band of Milwaukee was the first to march behind the U. S. flag in Berlin since the War. When the bandsmen, with black crepe on their arms in honor of President von Hindenburg, reached the Sportpalast, largest auditorium in the city, 15,000 ticket holders shouted "hoch" and gave the Nazi salute...
Wednesday Evening May 23 *March, E1 Captain" Sousa *Overture to "Orpheus" Offenbach *Reve Angelique Rubenstein *Baechanale from "Samson and Delish" Saint Seems *"Giris of Baden," Waltz Komzak *The lost chord Trumpet sole: Georges Mager Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1312" Tchaikorsky *"Mille Modiste," Selection Herbert "Dubinushka," Russian Folk song Arranged by Jacchia March, "There's only One Vienna" Schrammel...