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FORMS--FORMS—and more forms, It's ASCAP ime at station WFBM. \ ASCAP time means Hugh Brown, treasurer jof WFBM, is getting approximately 1000 music shégts sorted s0 he can make out the monthly per-program report of ASCAP music used at the station. The two principal sources for the music sheets ere the continuity and traffic departments. The continuity writers figure out what tunes they want on a program, jut them down on a sheet in duplicate and then send both to Mr. Brown, He stacks them up in preparation for record-making day. The traffic department, which handles announcements and singing commercials, jot their music down, too, but first they send the original copy and later the duplicate. These are stacked in separate piles. : A radio station can use a lot of music in one day's operation. To illustrate how much, Mr. Brown took March 1 as a typjcal day—15 music sheets. “March 1 isn't a good day,” Mr. Brown said quickly, picking out sheets for March 3, Monday. There are 26 with the specified information such as electrical transcription or recording; make, Victor or Columbia, etc., title, number, writers and the licensing agent. The first sorting operation consisted of getting the sheets according’ to ‘the day of the. month. When that was done the next thing was to get them according to the time of day. With a stack of music sheets in front of him, Mr. Brown narrowed down the field by picking out all the ASCAP sheets. “If there are six selections played on a program, five of which belong to ASCAP and one to

RIGHT IN' FORM—Every month about this time, Hugh Brown, WFBM treasurer, has his

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BMI, the program becomes an ASCAP program,” Mr. Brown explained using both hands to’ flip the sheets either to the right or the left. . Winking he said, “It's almost necessary to have two hands ‘on this job.”

Goes On All Day THE PHONE rang and Mrs. Brown had to leave the office. He returned just in time to get another call. “This goes on all day,” he said, giving the sheets healthy flips. . The next thing to find out for the report was whether the music was played on a commercial, sustaining or a participating program. . In a commercial program one sponsor pays for all «the time. In a participating program several sponsors share the time 'gnd expense while on a sustaining program there is no sponsor and there are no commercial announcements. Clear? . Then back to the sorting. The sorting isn't done by waving one’s hand but for practical reasons we'll skip the hundreds of flipflips and say MF. Brown was ready to match up the original and carbon ¢opies from the traffic department. There’s a little matter of a couple not being in the stack. Someone forgot to turn the dupes in. Several minutes of sleuthing brought the sheets where they were supposed to be. In the meantime a few phone calls came in.

Log Serves as Check

FINALLY ALL the sheets were accounted for and stacked in neat piles. By this time Mr. Brown was smoking his pipe vigorously and saying something about “monotony compounded.” Mr. Brown took a yellow form, 14 by 17 inches, which is called simply “Detail of Revenue Reportable from Sale of Facilities Commercial Programs containing ASCAP Music,” another called “Detail of Sustaining Broadcast Reportable” and the station's own log book of all programs. : Things like the title of the program, the sponsor, time from such and such to such and such, and dates of broadcast were pencilled in, The log serves as a chieck to get the sponsors in a participating program. correct, Forms for some reason have to be accurate, At this point Mr. Brown was flipping pages and working as if he were writing his last final exam paper in college. A great number of checks soon dotted the yellow detail sheet, This went on and on. Just when I began to feel as if I had attended a double feature twice, Mr. Brown announced that he had gone as far as he could go. All this work was! to prepare for the last day of the month. “When all the sheets come in I repeat the process. Of course, I won't have as many as I had today,” Mr. Brown told me. “After that I just add all the columns to the right, then up and down, figure out the percentage of the ASCAP take, which fluctuates month by month, transfer the figures to another sheet, send them all to New York and I'm through for FY month. That's all.” : Is that all?

Tax Bill's Fate

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, March 27.—Before -the sun sets tonight on their flushed faces and they lave their hoarse throats with ice water, the members of the house will have passed the bill slashing income taxes by 20 per cent. Thirty per cent for poor folks. So the law will go to the senate finance commiitee, which will hear it praised and denounced by experts who barely will escape calling each other liars. The committee will recommend changes. Then the senate will get it. The boys will argue and they will battle. The savings will be too big and theyralso will be too little, and how about balancing the budget? And what about all that dough for Greece? The senate will pass a tax bill which only vaguely resembles the ene adopted by the house. The bill will go to conference, where delegates from both houses will fight some more. By now it will be May — month after next — and the cherry blossoms long since will have withered away. The senate and the house eventually will agree on some

kind of tax bill. Then it will be sent to the White

House.

Veto Is Hinted

PRESIDENT TRUMAN will come up from his new bowling alley and look at the bill with jaundiced eve. Some people think he might veto it along about June. Then we would be back where we started, exeept that the good old bureau of internal revenue would have its hot little -hand stretched out for the second installment. At the old rate. What happens then I cannot predict. My crystal ball is cracked. And that is why the two days of pitter argument in the house about whether taxes should be cut from 20 to 30 per cent somehow seemed like much ado about nothing. The arguers, of course,

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would disagree with me. I've never seen ‘em more serious.

Won't Oppose Gag Rule REP. SAM RAYBURN of Texas, the Democratic leader, for instance, said he certainly would not oppose the gag rule, making it impossible for any individual congressman to offer an amendment. “The 15 Republican members of the ways and means committee have made a bad enough bill,” he

explained, “and I would hate the thought of turning}

245 Republicans loose on it.” The Republicans retorted that it was a wonderful bill Rep. Harold Knutson of Minnesota, who sponsored ‘it, plunked his chunky self in front of the microphone and expounded at length on its merits. He said if the Democrats in the back of the cham-

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‘Ripples

THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1947

Of 1947’ Student Eagerly Awaits Call—On’

THREE PEPPERMINT STICKS—These members of the cast-of "Ripples of 1947" will star in "Candy Capades” number of the Broad Ripple high school production tonight and tomorrow night. They are (left to right) Audrey Reed, Jeanne 2 Eby and Shiky Pugs.

ber didn’t stop their noise and listen to him, maybe the sergeant-at-arms could silence ‘em.

He charged them with piling debt upon debt, with {

never a thought of paying the bill “And now when we call for a 20 per cent tax| cut,” he reared (and roar is the accurate word), “we | are assailed by that firm of tax experts, Dingell, | Engle and Gore.” This was sarcasm. The thick-necked Mr, Knutson let it be known that he didn’t believe Reps. John D. Dingell of Michigan, Clair Engle of California, and Albert Gore of Tennessee, knew much about taxes. Hours later Rep. Dingell got his chance to say what he thought about Rep. Knutson. He said the bill was a $4 billion swindle and an arithmetical fraud. He had tax charts which didn't seem to agree with Mr. Knutson’s. But the hour was late and most of the Republicans, who had the votes and knew it, weren't there to listen. The ones that were didn't bother to retort. - I think, myself, that I'll go bowling and for the next few months try to forget taxes.

Toupee Brigade

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, March 27.—Exclusively yours: Humphrey Bogart is losing his hair, due to an odd skin ailment, but it isn’t as serious as reported elsewhere. One story said he was even losing his eyebrows and eyelashes, which is not true. But it is pretty definite that Mr. Bogart will join the. toupee brigade. Bogie's agent softened the blow for Jack Warner, before he heard about Mr. -Bogart's gradual

balding, with ‘a glowing discourse ‘on: Bing Crosby and. other big male stars who wear toupees. Gloria de Haven, ‘under suspension at M=G-M for turning down a role in “Good News,” may be leaving

. the lot for good. The studio is ready to cancel her

contract. - All of Rita Hayworth's furniture goes on the auction block this week. Apparently it reminded her too much of Orson Welles, whom she's ase

auctioning off.

‘Just to Spite Em’

JIMMY DURANTE can take a“bow for another wonderful performance in “It Happened in Brooklyn.” And here's what happened when I met Jimmy out at M-G-M: “You know all that trouble I had with that swimming pool, paying double for the hole, paying double for the cement, paying double for the aggravation?” “Yeah.” “Well,” said Jimmy, “just to spite ’em I learned how to swim.” Harry James says his secret passion is to play a straight dramatic western hero role. “But,” he says, “it will probdbly never happen. Can't you just see the director telling me.to go into a chorus of

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We, the Women

‘Love on Cutting Floor

‘Ciri-Ciri-Bin’ on my trumpet as I chase the Indians| across the prairie.” Burl Ives will sing a duet with himself on his radio show. It proves one of the advantages transcribed shows have over live programs. Burl recorded the melody first, then came in with the harmony.

“FOREVER AMBER,” by the way, wound up at 229,000 feet, a Hollywood record. There will be a

~16t of love on the cutting room floor, since the picture

must be cut down to 18,000 feet. Asked if he. would marry a certain ‘Hollywood glamour doll, Vic Mature replied: “No. She's a friend of mine and I like her. But I couldn't play a dirty trick like that on a friend.” Jack Benny's Rochester will stage a benefit show for victims of the recent Los Argeles explosion at Shrine auditorium. Turhan Bey's first words to Virginia Mayo in “Out of the Blue” are: “Okay, baby, slip out of your clothes.” It’s okay with the censors, however, because the situation is one in which he mistakes her for a model for one of his paintings.

Producer Jerry Wald writes me that Charles

Jackson's “Fall of Valor” is definitely off the Warner schedule. Mr. Jackson is writing an original screenplay for the studio on the problem of the school teacher in America... Jane Russell’s husband, Bob Waterfield, may turn | up as a cowboy star at Republic. Ralph Bellamy finally has made up his mind. He'll re-marry his former wife, Catherine: Willard, when

GYPSIES A romantic serenade is played by Lloyd Smith for Carolyn Howard (center) and Sharon Pfister in the show's act entitled

"Gypsy Rondo."

Each scene of the musical was written by a Broad

form in the scene "Land of Make Believe."

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PIED PIPER—Tom Moser uses a trumpet instead of the traditional pipe in the show's "Land of Make Believe" scene but he gets followers just the same. They -are (left to right) Margaret Farrington, Jack Dellen, Marilyn Earle, Bill Mitchell, Dolores The 11th annual musical will be held

Wade, Bill Adkins, Betsy Barth and Bill Dei zell.

in the school auditorium.

ARCHERS—Poised with their bows, members of the chorus are sure to captivate the spectators when they perMembers of the chorus are (left to right) Julia Brignall, Norma Gerth, Jean Doll, Joanne Bryant, Shirley Miller, Marcia Wells, Sally Lake and Joan McFall.” Jerry Chapman and Reid Chapman, of radio stations WIRE and WISH respectively, will be masters of ceremony.

his divorce from swing organist Ethel Smith is final. |

WE HAVEN'T DONE kids or parents any good by popularizing and dramatizing the words “juvenile delinquency” and considering if a national problem,

like the housing shortage. Whether Johnny and Susie are well-behaved kids who can be depended on isn't fundamentally a national or even a community problem,

Just Putting It Off

AND ALL the talk we've been indulging in that:

the schools should do this; the courts shauld do that, the communities should do meting. else, is Juss

Parents aren’t going to like it, of course. Because if they once again assume complete respopsibility for the behavior of their children, it is going to mean a lot of changes in many, families.

A F amily Problem “One meal is enough,” he said. |

PARENTS WILL have to go back to the old-

fashioned practice of waiting up for their kids when

they go out on dates. That is the only way they can be sure that they get in at a reasonable hour. What will be even tougher on a good many modern parents is that theyll have to get a little

By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, March 27.—Monsieur Vass U. de Lo-Padua, one of 4ojiar.

| Manhattan's foremost chefs, today urged America's tired businessmen . | to eat only one meal a day. By Ruth Millett |

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“It is to die, the way they now eat,” he sald. to stab ones€lf with the knife or fork.” Mr. De Lo-Padua, a slight, straight man with a gray Van Dyke, is| cuisine director at the. Hotel Ely- - see. He appeared indifferent to|is his daily limit. the fact that his advice might well! put the skids under many restau

lat least an hour. Mr. De Lo-Padua, born in Caen,

“There are hice times, ” he ks 50? They blah all the time they’ re Let it be in the evening, when a! plained, “when it is not good for a eating.” man has had time to relax. It this | human being even to touch S0 much, Somietimes it is all that he can passers-by produce two centimes and 'do to keep from snatching a plate he sells/them a frog, but first he: “When he is .over-excited, over- Away from a customer who obviously isn’t in shape to appreciate it. |nhow this is done?” i] ‘Mr, De Lo-Padua shivered, “elos-

is too sewsre, then let it be two, as a glass of water: meals-—but never three. His Daily Limit “Let a man nibble when he arises

angry, or over-tired. “Thus how can the American busi-

more dignity into their own social lives.

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in the morning, and then again a nessman eat Some day welll realize that the talking gels us'good meal at night.” : , no place and that this so-called national problem of Mr. Do Lo-Pudua, ruadoes Mais, Wel St rswseant and, watch, “Juvenile delinquency” i really 4 family problem. 1, prensEen. One Soal, 3; 8.0 Mouth” Foal La

than one meal | I have worked in

will appear in special musical features.

INJUNS— Jeanette Hartman is watially little disturbed by the threatening tomahawks of Dick DeHority’ (left) ‘and Myron Austin, - Everything comes out all right in the end of the scene entitled ' ‘Redskin Ripple high school student and proceeds. from the two performances, Riot." Between scenes school alumni who performed in past “Ripples which begin at 8:15 p. m., will be used to further creative expression.

"CANDY" KIDS—Jeanne Wilson - and - Jack Dellen poise in their dance ‘in "Candy Capades.”

U.S. Eats Too Much , Chef Says—Urges. 1 Meal a Day

| Mr. De Lo-Padua snorted; mut-| As for France, the land of the tering something about the almighty great Escoffier,

said, “a glass of beer in the other. admitted gloomily.

“It is the same &5 5 telephone booth between swal-| called ‘frog-eaters.’ lows. It's impossible.” |. “The frog-hunters chase the little The cuisine expert added flatly peasts at night in the swamps. As that any evening meal should take ‘they catch each one, he is popped . alive into a wicker basket. “Americans,” he said, “seldom te-' “Then, early in the day, the hint~ 77 years ago, was a student of the quire more than 15 or 20 minutes.| ler returns to market, Cut Off Head “As he walks along the road,’

And they blah-blah-blah. Is it od

They Know Nothing : “Fifty per cent of America’s res- ing both eyes.

‘taurant owners and cooks are totally “The hunter sticks the live

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there is but one skeleton in her culinary closet. - “A sandwich in one hand,” he ' “It is at Nancy,” Mr. De Lo-Padua “It is why we're

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Laundry Racket Nets Man $10,000

small wage was the question. Neal revealed today that during the past year he was able to purchase two houses and a $1000 war to ‘another $1000.

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