Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 23

I \ GREATORS CASH IN ON"SWEET ADELINE " Mer Fair Face Again Beams on Harry Armstrong and Richard H. Gerard. v tbe Associated Press. W YORK, April 14.—Millions have g about it, but only two had real | pmase to pine for “Sweet Adeline.” | They were Harry Armstrong and Richard H. Gerard, her creators, who Kicked themselves as chumps when she | became the darling of the barbershops, Iamp-post quartets, cafes and theaters | after they had signed away all interest in her. ’ Again Reigning Belle. Mer fair face beams now on both of | them. For, coming back as she has to be again the reigning belle, she hasn't forgotten Armstrong and Gerard. Only they could renew the copyright which ran out a couple of years ago. Armstrong is still composing popular | music, in his own office on Broadway. Gerard will retire in a couple of yea as a postal clerk. | ication of how sweet “Sweet | Adeline” can be, Armstrong relates that | he and Gerard now collect $100 every | time a movie actor warbles so much as one single bar. It makes up partly for the years in which they could listen to | the song with only a detached interest. | They wrote “Sweet Adeline” 30 years ago. Armstrong conceived the melody for the chorus five years carlier when he was spending his spare time striking | chords with lamp post gquartets in Malden, Mass., singing such things as “The Cows in the Clover Go Moo, " That | York with $5 < ed at Coney Island. | the piano at Coney Island. | er in a saloon off the | in the San Souci Music | Isadore Whitmark con- | he ought “to get away | from the cafe life.” Whitmark gave | him a job at $18 a w his duties being to make himself generally useful. Under this category was the job of “plugging” songs at music counters. He met Gerard, who had changed his name from Husch, and who was also working for the publishing firm. Gerard wrote, “You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Rosalie.” to the music that Arm. strong had alveady conceived. Whit- | mark turned it down. A second pub- | lisher scid it was tooslow. A third said it was “teo old-fashioned.” A fourth contracted for it, kept it a year and ":n turned it back, again as “too slow.” “'he song lay around almost forgotten for a time. “I said to Gerard,” relates Armstrong, | “‘the trouble with this song is the| title’s bad'—and Gerard thinks awhile and then picks ‘Adeline.’ Never Noticed Changes. “We submitted it to Witmark again and they took it, forgetting that_they had already turned it down. Julius Witmark changed the melody, but when the proofs came up I changed it back and he never noticed it.” But even in print “Sweet Adeline” lay around unnoticed. singers wouldn’t have it. People didn't buy it. A long time after it was published, a quartet - known as the Quarker City Four sang | it at Hammerstein's Victoria. It went big. Soon it swept the country. The suthors had already sold their interests, Armstrong for $1,000, Gerard for $2,000. /INCENDIARISM BLAMED IN NEW SCHOOL BLAZE $100,000 Dormitory Is Second Building Destroyed in Three Days at Simsbury, Conn. By the Associated Press. SIMSBURY, Conn., April 14.—The second fire in three days destroyed an- other large dormitory at the Ethel Walker School, fashionable preparatory and finishing school for girls, last night. | State police, after questioning several | men, said the fire was of incendiary | origin. i The fire, discovered while 100 stud- | ents were in the dining hall on the main floor, leveled the four-story frame building known as the Four Corners. All the students filed out of the dining | hall without disorder. 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