Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sing Out, Sweet Land! (book by Walter Kerr; produced by the Theater Guild) is a songbook history of American life. Combining folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
Overtime. In St. Louis, Louis Druzinsky, St. Louis Symphony violinist, donned old clothes and dark glasses, fiddled Paganini and Tchaikovsky at a street corner, collected $5.98 in his tin cup in 25 minutes, philosophized: "I ought to quit the Symphony. I can make more money this...
...when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, he was soon making as much as $60,000 a year...
...From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway was an easy right turn and ft om there Rose went on to operating all over the map: in Manhattan with a succession of nightclubs (Casino de Paree, Casa Mañana, the still flourishing Diamond Horseshoe), at the Centennial Fair in Fort Worth (at a wage of $1,000 a day, at San Francisco's, Cleveland's and bushing's fairs. The Aquacade alone netted him $2,000,000 after taxes...
...H.G.s might go back to their umbrellas and bowlers, but the tunics and tin hats would always be hanging in the cupboard, just in case...