Show i In New York Yori NEW YORK 5 Tin Tin V Pan AI ley works feverishly at this sea The winters winter's supply of fox trots n ballads and mam songs has been ground out an and all j ready the overworked piano plana fo ke begin to bang out moonlight hf a nd roses stuff for tor the following s and summer Songs are written fo for seasonal i 17 e. e mands Just as clothes are mad madr Or ji hats or underwear hit will overlap a season and te or orrl 1 in roof ga gardens deng ftH d steam heated dance pavilions aUke j But Dut there are any number written to meet seasonal demands anil nf changes In styles styles a and d mann manners rs No one keeps their ears closer to the ground to catch the slightest t hint of changing public taste th n the snappy young men of ot Tin Pan Alley which as all the world should know Is a a. series of upstairs off es l from whence comes the music that all America w will sing and dance danci to toi These places range In ci from tram a dingy dIng lighted ap t f handsomely equipped suite At any time of the morning mid or afternoon a 8 scattered aSs assortment assort assert rt ment of young men nien and wo v nen may be seen lounging in the b lill n. n ways the waiting room or the lobby Ask any of them and you'll h hear har a Ive Ive got a real hit this time Sure fire Knock em over Listen and you'll hear all allt t the he hard luck stories In tile the Worl H You'll hear of 01 the hit that j st missed fire of the song long that would so o lf ld have made a million If every pub lisher hadn't turned it down you'll y hear the strange patter putter of the bi l g. g gart ham and fabulous claims such as would t turn urn even an oU oil stock salesman to rout lOUt jj You will see thep song the musicians looking for a big bet the worried c em com j m. m poser whose song is being lri tried d out U Uthe the go-getter go salesmen Inside the fenced gates gales uc hind the doors pes-lm pes sm may b brent breed ed like mosquitoes in a Jersey swamp but outside the salve alve is plied piled thick Dont Don't be surprised If the theauthor author of the sure sUIe fire song tries lre riel to beg a dime fur for coffee Th Than maca tl all part of the game No one ca catell can tell for sure who's bluffIng and nd who's really landed until over Although there e are certain time honored bluffers known to aU all alland and sundry Fame or famine they famine they go on season sea sea- seal sea son after season seasonS JT The pianos bang out their jazz time and heart t throbs whether hether wealth or 01 failure lie in the result The author of a success of bygone da days s 's comes conies up and borrows lu lunch cb money from the he author of tod today y hit Times change tastes change tunes change One flits in and ne nao flits out m mIt's mIts Its It's up and down in Tin Pan Al Alley l. l ley where they're sowing the see of syncopation for another seas season n GILBERT SW SWAN AX I Copyright 19 1926 1226 6 NEA A Service Ice Ic |