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Nearly all the popular music heard over the air is controlled by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a composer's union which collects royalties on every musical broadcast. Last spring Montana broadcasters got so fed up they had a law passed outlawing ASCAP's royalties. When ASCAP insisted on royalty payments, one broadcaster filed charges of extortion. Montana authorities then tried to arrest ASCAP's genial President Gene Buck...
...including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...
...Lincoln broadcast...
...Actor Massey applied his stage nose & wart (a half-hour operation) during the afternoon, appeared at the Chicago Civic Opera House (before an invited broadcast audience of 2,500) in black tie, was at the microphones for almost the full half-hour. At the finish, although he gave the best Lincoln the radio has heard, he took no curtain calls but darted out the stage door, piled into a police car, was sped five blocks to the Grand Opera House and the curtain-rising of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in nothing flat...
Rummaging recently through the archives of various U. S. libraries in search of early U. S. music. No. 1 U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick hit upon James Hewitt's The Battle of Trenton. Last week, on a broadcast of U. S. music over WNYC, Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick played it. Though written for the most part in the measured, tinkling idiom of 18th-Century English salon music, The Battle of Trenton still preserved a smoldering crash and rumble reminiscent of the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig...