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Sued For Divorce. Lew Brown, composer, member of the musicomedy composing team, De Sylva, Brown & Henderson; by Mrs. Sylvia Brown. Allegations: that "You're The Cream In My Coffee" and kindred songs were written away from home; that her remonstrations were greeted with profanity. Alimony asked: $5,000 per month...
Thank Your Father and Good for You, Bad for Me (Columbia)?Flying High tunes by the famed De Sylva, Brown & Henderson combination, ably played by the Knickerbockers...
Oscar Shaw suavely appears as an aviator who wins a transcontinental air race and the hand of a delectable blonde heroine with an excellent voice (Grace Brinkley). The inveterate Tin Pan Alley trio of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson contribute one song ("Thank Your Father") which is likely to be favored. Joseph Urban has designed several salons which are totally unlike those at any airport in the country...
Obviously if sound movie producers use a song published by somebody else, they get no royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer...
Schwab and De Sylva interpret country club life from divots to the bench where the hedge is thickest. They do it in a series of scenes that are real good, and some that are not quite so good. But, all in all, the weak spots are few and far between...