Show BOOTLEG MUSIC PROFITS LARGE LARGI Risque V Verses on Phon- Phon Phonograph Phonograph Records Sold Secretly KANSAS CITY June By U 2 The Associated Press Bootleg Press wild music wild jazz coupled with risque Is versification is being distributed dis- dis distributed in many parts of ot the tho country In a north side sid tonk cabaret here an Inquisitive visitor made the discovery that the boot boot- bootlegging legging profession numbers number among its Ita members member not only purveyors ot of liquor drugs and pornographic pornographic art but a II numerous frater- frater fraternity which bootlegs oft off color talking machine records The Th hour for tor orchestra music had passed The negro jazz band ban had gone sone But the patrons still craved music and asked for tor It it The proprietor waddled addled over to toan toan t tan an ornate gramophone and se- se selected selected a record from a II nearby which cabinet which was as locked WITHOUT IDENTITY The music began with a i moaning tom-tom tom beat The cadence ca- ca cadence dence was regular and sensuous A womans woman's voice voice-an voice an exceptional lonal exceptionally ly Iy good one one began began to croon the instruments softened their tones and the tho tong bong ong burst against the th background ot of the drummers drummer's mo- mo monotonous monotonous mo monotonous booming At first the tho words and ond meaning were mildly risque the second 1 verse ene was wa a a trine more so and the third bordered on the th ob obscene scene A reputable music firm would 1 have risked its standing by dis- dis distributing distributing dis distributing such a 1 record The Th in- in inquisitive inquisitive in inquisitive visitor strolled over to the machin machine and Inspected the th i disk There was nothing nothing- to Iden Iden- Identify iden- iden identify Identify it except the th suggestive title or of the ditty The proprietor was vague He lie was not sure ture where the record had come coma had from from bought ht it on a certain street PROFIT IS PER CENT Several days day later the visitor found the seUer seller of ot ort oft color records records in n a a dingy second hand shop At first he was unable to toI I get any Information about the firms firm's musical department The Tho Sealer dealer refused to display his wares until the th customer had been properly identified But when this formality had been completed a n door to a back backroom room oom was thrown open Thou Thou- Thousands Thousands sands lands or of o phonograph records records were tacked stacked around the th walls walla A con con- console solo con sole role machine quickly revealed that hat the cabaret proprietors proprietor ree- ree records rec records were typical of many others The proprietor explained thatto that he to bought the records from the who did a thriving business all aU over the th country Many fany of them were ere made mad by ne- ne negro negro ne-gro ne gro singers He lie himself had no complaint to make as he received re- re received re received per cent profit prot on his Investment lie He said his custom custom- customers customers ers era were from many walks of life Ufe from mischievous high school schoolboys schoolboys boys to proprietors of ot exclusive establishments on Kansas City's Gold Coast The beauty of ot It all all he declared was that the business was wa strictly 00 cash I |