Show l A j r NEW NEV YORKER AT T GE 1 LARGE JARGE NEW Q IC e cc 26 25 26 Tin tan tanAU Pan AU Alley Afley or or rather what's left left of ot It it- it moro Is witnessing a a. complete tc In topsy t Y M-Y public tastes Not that the tc alley Siley where h ro songs como come from rom isn't A l used to this sort ort I of ot thing Havins' Havins 1111 I ld Jh N m m ov v t I 0 tJ theme c n- n songs It lt considers consid i era ers Itself ft capable S. S f of ot enduring al almost almost al- al most anything But Dut tho tim current T a appetites it 11 n a v e 0 turned so 80 completely com corn hill lull billy and andIn la In tho direction tion Uon of mournful of-mournful ballads s that some consideration has las to be taken of or this change chango of ot tn tastes te- te Such titles as as Dont Send My Boy to Jail aro are all the vogue And the ho themes also run to such waltz- waltz sh Ish refrains as 38 may mav bo be found in Somewhere In Old OId V Wyoming And nd it f that Isn't light right out of or tho the old barber barber bar bat ber aho shop quartet vintage please introduce me to ono ona that Js is And th here's heres res re's ono one about Moonlight on th the th Colorado There's Theres ono one about t Mon Mon- t tana ana ni t too o. o And tho the radio programs fairly airly glo groan n with numbers that havo o Blight association wIth the vo o era I Whatever may 1030 bo be behind this sudden udden reversion rc to the tho ballad school chool of at song song publishers e have long been aware that tho the best sellers sellers sell soil ers In sheet music always were of of- the he sentimental s waltz variety Something o of a n. record re rd b. b has been eel held el or lor years 1 uy by Ohio Ollio whIch s so I have been told Is Iz the biggest seller to date Amusingly enough Its authorship ip p was credited to to- toa a youn young yount woman who ho never existed It was Wa written by jy a n. man who having a D. Germanic name ame willi was wan a a abit bit ncr ous nervous about this nt at t tho the time Imo of ot the war var and changed it t for writing purposes And there's theres many ri a tale to b be heard eard about how successful songs came to be written Take Freddie Coots Coots or or leave ilm Coots has had about 12 hits Itt in n a row which Is Is- quite a record And nd th so include such favorites as ns asI asI I I 1 Still Get a Thrill and Why N Not t s so many months ago ngo this young oung man was wa-s wondering both how ow and wh why Ho lie was as out of at a n. job and nd his wife didn't seem able to geta get a musical connection either They ero vero rapidly getting on their tipers uppers uppers up- up pers ers hoping for tor something to turn up soon Well WeIl ho commented on n a a day when things things' looked pretty black I anyway honey we still havo have got sot that hat precious thing they call can love ove Wait Walt a a. minute that minute that sounds lIkon like lIko n. n good title J This This- Thise e sd I x am how That Precious Little Thing Called Galled happened to be written n. n And i It was the he b ginning beginning of or Coots Coots' rise to his bis resent present peak S S S Tho rho most s si successful of ot all the current writers Titers is the tho team of at Deviva De Do DoSylva viva SIva Sylva Henderson Benderson and and- Brown Blown who ho have been responsible responsible sible for two highly successful sound picture musical musical mu mu- r efforts Thc They now own their o own on n building lI ding on 1 Broadway Broad and 6 have o a fortune fortuno 4 I rated around a ac 1 million c It was tho the trick song sons that e put them Into the theIn titles Never Swat a la F Ply 1 a and 11 d Youre the tho Cream In u My Coffee Cortee Such numbers click because of their heir particularly catch phrase na- na ture for most of ure which Buddy Brown rown I believe has been blamed They hey have havo a show on Broadway and another lother coming comins- up and these keep the ae trio bus busy running b between t een Broadway roadway and Hollywood boulevard GILBERT SWAN right Copyright 1930 NEA Z Service Inc A mineral wool having SlavIng high Insulating In- In qualities made from blast furnace slag I has been developed In France Vance A switch operated ope by clockwork has las been invented to turn on an nn automobiles automobile's parking lights automatically auto- auto at It set times Co Coal l fields on Hokkaido island Ja Japan apan an first exploited by an Amen Amerl- can an geologist in 1874 1814 now produce moro more than y yen cn of ot coal yearly |