Show ftp ing Berl Berlin in s 0 of T Trend ren Of U. U S. S MusIc By D y FAN J Jr f r Reviewing 2 25 active years as a ai aon i on nJ writer Irving Berlin who rose from New Yorks York's bowery to occupy the e fore position lon in the world o f popular o ular music names the devel- devel I devel-I of the mechanical age as asI I the th tb most important factors that have eve e influenced American music for foro o masses he explains s the song inter works with the microphone rid ad the screen in mind He no long- long thinks in terms of sheet music There are re now no limits to his omon I In 1911 when Berlin started his hist I broken t br ken cycle of oC song hits its by ii dUng ting Alexanders Alexander s R Ragtime a a. g t i m e ed ed Imand d America was just emerging and Phon Pho- Pho fi tram from tn the horse buggy era n with vast horns occupied space in the front rooms rooms now nowr reserved r for the radio Sound pic- pic pictures tures t res had been dreamed of by a afew afew afew few visionaries but were still a Jt full 18 years from realization z What a difference today Through radio new songs are carried immedIately immediately im- im medIately to millions of ot homes I Fro the screens of ot tens of ot thousand thou thou- sand dj o of motion picture theaters ey 1 are sung to audiences of ot milU mil- mil How gas U The microphone has become their magic medium of worldwide Elimination The Ibe result is a great striving for forthe the 1 un unusual Lyric writers ers in particular par par- tJ have become increasingly conscious of the necessity for verses which bich will catch the tho ear and Intrigue in- in the imagination Years ago s catchy title coupled with a good elody was enough to put a song ever er That is not generally generall true aye yo Kip p the public the mechanical In- In has meant quite another thing g. g It has meant a casual aloit al- al oat oit indifferent acceptance of muc mu- mu c which results from mere listen listen- of rather than the understanding Appreciation which comes with sing- sing and and playing songs |