Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today, 80% of U. S. small-town concert music is controlled by two large Manhattan organizations: Columbia Concerts Corp. and NBC Artists Service. The small-town business done by these two organizations (which do not compete, but divide the field between them) totals about $1,000,000 a year...
...violinist and small independent impresario. And he soon saw that it would be a bright idea to hook up concert music with radio's enormous publicity. In 1930 he merged with four of his competitors and sold Columbia Broadcasting System a half-interest in his new corporation. Today he is music's biggest wholesaler. In the music world he is quite generally regarded as the big bad wolf...
...take Community's cabbage along with its caviar, they actually get a larger quantity of big-time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists know what prices they are fetching. Manager Judson keeps...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...attained that state on a salary of only $43 a week. One such is kindly-faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson, who charges batteries for the electric trucks of Pilgrim Laundry, Inc. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Gus began his work 25 years ago for $25 a week and today, in his overalls and heavy shoes, he looks as though he didn't have a spare dime. But he is typical of Pilgrim's 550 employes, 535 of whom own 75% of the stock of their $1,344,700 company...