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Show THIS 8100,000 ,IUIt IS yol'ks o.v oxi: condition In tho April American Magazine wo aro Informed that there's an unfilled un-filled pob In Songland. " One hundred hun-dred thousand dollars a year, at least, is waiting for tho man or woman who will como forward and fill it," says E. M. WIckcs. "It carries with It no orders; it requires no particular particu-lar training; a person who has finished fin-ished schooling with tho second reader read-er will stand exactly as good a chanco of being accopted for tho vacancy as a master of sevontcen languages, or a mathematical man el. "Song publishing is ono of th greatest gambles in tho whole world. Fortunes are" won nnd lost in a change of the moon, and for reasons which no ono seems able to forecast which brings us back to tho subject sub-ject of Songland's vacancy. "If anyone can prove his ability consistently to select songs which will captivate the ears of his hundred hun-dred million fellows, ho can become tho official picker of bits for any number of big song publishers. As for his salary well, ho can name a figure that will make him considerably considera-bly better paid than tho President of the United States." But here's the nigger In tho woodpile: wood-pile: "Incidentally, If ou aro thinking of applying for tho Job 'official hit picker," be quite sure that you are thoroughly familiar with tho evanescent evanes-cent fancies and shifting emotions of young women. For they buy practically prac-tically all tho music, and what they do not buy Is usually purchased by Bomo admiring friend or repentant relative" |