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...Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered its losing music war with the radio networks...
...Gettysburg battlefield the dogwood and redbud trees were tipped with green; robins and bluebirds sang in their branches. In the Gettysburg Soldiers' National Cemetery, buds were close to bursting on giant azaleas and big tulip trees...
...went to Norristown were one more sign of how the artistic wind is blowing. U.S. designers are busy turning out imitation Pennsylvania Dutch napkins, tablecloths, furniture, dishes. Manhattan's Theater Guild is busy rehearsing a Pennsylvania Dutch play (Papa Is All). U.S. advertising artists are using Pennsylvania Dutch tulip designs as borders for cosmetic ads. Every big Manhattan department store has stocked its shelves to cope with the trend. Most of the Pennsylvania Dutch bric-a-brac now sold commercially might bring blushes to the face of a good Mennonite, Dunkard or Amish. But U.S. housewives have...
Corvettes: Tulip, Clarkia, Nasturtium, Primrose...
...Sister and I (Benny Goodman; Columbia; Bea Wain, Victor). They remember the tulip gardens and windmills, "but we don't talk about that." An icky little something, but it sounds like a hit. Singer Wain's is the best vocal...