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...learned yesterday that E. F. Craig '25, song writer, who recently exposed the "Weary River" song theft to the CRIMSON, is at resent in New York City where he is completing arrangements to bring suit against Louis Silvers for using one of the songs from the 1925 Hasty Pudding Show for the current Richard Barthelmess movie production. Craig has as his lawyers Paul N. Turner, who is the most prominent attorney in America to handle cases for authors and actors. Turner is bringing a combined suit in Craig's name against Warner Bros. Company and Irving Berlin, who later copyrighted...
That the song, "It's Up To You", featured in the talking picture "Weary River" now playing at the University Theatre was a song-hit in the Hasty Pudding Show of 1929, "Laff It Off", is the charge brought by E. F. Craig '25. Craig says that he is the author of the music to "It's Up To You", which was first written in 1924, and used under the title "The Moment I Laid Eyes on You" in the 1925 Pudding production...
...first knowledge Craig had of the theft of his piece was when he went to see "Weary River". He was stunned to hear his song played to less than eight times in addition to being sung by Richard Barthelmess...
...Craig also found that the musical structure of the two songs was identical; the melodies being the same, note for note, except to accommodate the new lyric...
...Craig has been very active in musical productions, having written several songs which have been hits in England. He is also the author of a good part of the music and Iyrics in this year's Hasty Pudding production "Fireman Save My Child...