Show Song Hits Make Fortunes Fortun s S But Not for W Writers 5 I Ji I IJ c J 5 S S S 'S SI SI I I c rI I IS Iii S ii f 5 5 Iq rJ 5 5 J I 5 51 55 c I f S 5 MRS THEKLA ANDREW ANbREW AND JOHNNY B BLACK LAc K NEW YORK June 28 Is one of ot the most most popular songs ever written In America R Royalties on the piece are r reported ported to have reached And Johnnie Johnni Black who composed It H got S Madelon Iad 1 lon Is the the most mst popular s song n that has been written in France in iii a arr 1 rr Ti T-n T S I It has made made hundreds of ot thousands of ot francs f r tn the publishers ers The French who wrote it got nothing nothing not not a centime in In ln royalties Madelon was written before the war It was one of a thousand songs songs that were were heard occasionally Nobody paid a. a any attention to It r Then the armies were mobilized the French took it up They demanded it to march to They sang it s It was played by the ban bands over bands s oYer and over and over S. S It spread all an over France F. F nce Lite Literally ally all an France sang It H whistled i it played It marched to It t. t Every r returned turned Yank can whistle It I Since the war the French chamber of ot deputies has made it an official national song A French has raised a fund for the writer who was glad to give his composition t to the p publisher Just jus to see it printed I When Johnny Black took Darda nella to th the pU publishers they told him j it was unusual Johnny felt proud Wh When i. i th the i a a check for h he ho accepted Then he became aware that everybody every every- every every- body was singing sit it and playing It It- It arid and it was wasa a hit hit- Now he is suing for a share of ot the S royalties It 5 5 These c casks cases s s would 1 s 's seem m t to pr prove ve that song writing writing writing-by by th the Unknown song writer i is an unprofitable fl b business siness But there are arc exceptions like Mrs frs Thekla Hollingsworth Andrew of ot Joplin Mo 1 Listening to a a new song hit one day she said I could write e that kind of t thing And she slie d did dd Me Dear Deai she called c-aUed It I She w went mt to New YOrk and offered 1 it to a publisher It S The trifle he offered made her an an- gry gr and she went back to Joplin Mo and had it published publish d at at her own ex ex- ex pense Eight gf the thousand thousand the entire first edi edi- tion were tion-were were sold In no time In that one neighborhood arid and m mo re re thousands are re being printed S But as But as has bC been n sald- sald Mrs Andrews Andrew's An An- drews drew's case Is Is exceptional The strangest case we ever heard of ot in fact say th Urn the dealers who hn are h han han- n- n dUng dUng- it |