Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond the small Manhattan sector where songs are published and songwriters remembered, little is known of the men who wrote the homely old tunes which today are almost U.S. folksongs. Last week Douglas Gilbert of the enterprising New York World-Telegram traced the fortunes of some oldtime songwriters in a series called "Songs That Linger On- Who Wrote Them?" Four songs and their composers...
...thought it was new. Jack Norworth wrote "Harvest Moon" when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels, a long blue coat and a pancake straw. The World-Telegram devotes its piece to Norworth, now a stalky, white-haired man who sells cocktail biscuits to supplement his royalties. ("Harvest Moon" has earned him some...
...course of his labors all over the U. S. he met and married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with Lincoln Steffens, famed libertarian and muckraker, on a biography of Merchant Edward A. Filene...
...Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading: "The last rail is laid, the last spike is driven, the Pacific railroad is completed...
...There he informed 70 likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure the Orchestra's existence for the next three seasons. Mr. Flagler's guests knew the Philharmonic's proud reputation, knew that it had never before begged publicly for money. A telegram from Clarence Hungerford Mackay expressed more than it said. He simply regretted that he could not be present but everyone knew that in his prosperous days he had quietly made up many a deficit, that he was too proud to go on acting as the Philharmonic's mouthpiece when...