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Show Alexander's Ragtime Rag-time Band At Cameo Theatre "Alexander's Ragtime Band," the song which Irving Berlin wrote nearly near-ly thirty years ago and which has lived long enough in popular fancy to become a genuine American folk song, forms the theme of the Darryl F. Zanuck 20th Century-Fox production produc-tion which bears the song's name. The film plays at the Cameo Theatre, Sunday and Monday, October Oc-tober 23 and 24, with Tyrone Power, Pow-er, Alice Faye and Don Ameche in the starring roles. While it revolutionized the entire popular concept of dancing and singing sing-ing in 1911 . . . and is generally admitted ad-mitted to have begun the ragtime vogue which has since passed through the eras of blues and jazz to current "swing" . . . there are a number of interesting facts in connection con-nection with the song itself. Originally written by Irving Berlin as "Alexander and His Clarinet." The song had no words. Revamped and lyricized for a Friars Frolic in New York in 1911. First sung in public in 1911 by Emma Carus in Chicago. In 27 years, to date, has been given 10,000-odd performances. k In the motion picture it will give Word has been received of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Greenwood, of Chicago, Illinois. The new arrival, born October Oc-tober 14, has been named Joan Clayton Clay-ton Greenwood. She tipped the scales at 7 pounds. more than 60,000 performances within with-in a year. At the peak of its career the song sold 2,000,000 copies of sheet music ... its staggering total over 27 years ' cannot be learned. Irving Berlin did not own the copy-bought copy-bought it. The author and com-baught com-baught it. The author and composer com-poser was paid $25 a week when he wrote "Alexander's Ragtime Band." He since has written 600 songs which have aggregated more than I 60,000,000 copies of sheet music. |