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Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...
...papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for Woody Herman (neither had the common touch). He will get double the going Tin Pan Alley rates for Summer Moon, and a 50-50 split on movie rights. Said he: "According to the newspapers, the only reason I wrote this arrangement was to make money. I am very glad if I do make money, but I am very glad also if everyone sings my song...
...Tin Pan Alley was becoming a deadend street. More new songs were being published, played and plugged than ever before-but four of last week's top ten songs on Billboard's hit parade were at least 16 years...
...cage captain Saul V. Mariaschin '46 is now roaming the pavement of Tin Pan Alley instead of the hardwood of the Indoor Athletic Building--in the hope that turning out popular songs will turn enough dollars for the long pull through Law School...
...sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...