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...RKO paid Songwriter Berlin $75,000 plus a share of the receipts...
...present crop of Hollywood songwriters was chosen with more discretion than when the first gold rushers went West. Each studio has proven experts on its staff, men who really earn salaries running as high as $1,500 per week. RKO not only lured Berlin away from Broadway but it also has a special contract with Jerome Kern (Roberta, I Dream Too Much), pays so well for his curving melodies that he has already recovered the fortune he lost in Depression. Despite their rich earnings, Berlin and Kern have remained unaffected by Hollywood's glitter. Kern still refuses...
Follow the Fleet (RKO) was designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with...
...lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when RKO officials saw Follow the Fleet previewed...
...securities of $23,679,000 Last October, Mr. Sarnoff sold half of Radio Corp.'s interest in Radio-Keith-Orpheum to Atlas Corp. and Lehman Bros, for some $5,000,000. These investment houses also took an option on the rest of RCA's holding in RKO for another $5,000,000, payable before the end of 1937. Last November Mr. Sarnoff sold RCA's interest in Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. (British Radio) for $10,200,000 cash. So Radio Corp. approached the plan well-heeled...