TALKIE VICTIMS.
140,000 MUSICIANS IDLE
BOSTON, June 13
Representatives of 140,000. professional musicians from the United' States and Canada; the majority of whom' have been thrown out of work by the advent of, sound pictures, are gathering to consider what the future holds. Four hundred musicians, employed in the New York and Hollywood studios, now provide the music for talkie and singing records which are repeated throughout the country 17,000 to 20,000 times. A tremendous problem of unemployment is created by the thousands of musicians who are out of work and unfitted for anything else. Symphony orchestras "in the larger American cities are threatened with extinction.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 7
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106TALKIE VICTIMS. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 7
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