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Show ONLY FEW DAYS OF SUNSHINE Composer of Popular Ditties Seldom Repeat, Though They Never 8eem to Give Up Hope. Tin Pnn alley, like its lyrlcgl refrains, re-frains, has its Joys nnd sorrows. Obscure Ob-scure youths with a flair for popular ditties are suddenly showered with gold. Broadway welcomes them with open nrm8. in tho dnzsllng new world the gleaners of tho Whlto Way are soon on tho trail, O. O. Mclntyre writes In the New York Mall, Four composers whoso tunes were whistled In every city nnd hnmlet havo in tho last few days fallen upon evil days. Still another tho composer compos-er of CO successful songs died friendless friend-less In tho charity ward of tho bleak Blackwcll Island charity hospital. It Is poRBlblo to count on tho fingers of ono hand song writers who havo made fortunes nnd kept them. Tho two most noted examples are Irving Berlin and Gcno Buck. Tho Society of Authors, Composers nnd Publishers Publish-ers has voted donations amounting to $1,600 to Indigent composers during the last month. Tho money comes suddenly and Broadway has Its hall fellows who aro ever ready to nld In tho spending. There nro qulto a few composers nnd lyricists who have dashed off a song in a publishing house in a single afternoon after-noon nnd received royalties of more than $50,000. Because of this miracle they bellovo that they can do the same thing almost al-most nny afternoon thoy gather around tho piano. Tho truth Is that no composer has moro than four distinct dis-tinct song hits. A hit, incidentally, Is not a mere successful song. It means that the sales must amount to moro than 100,000 copies. |
