WAR ON “CANNED” MUSIC.
Opposition in Australia
GOVERNMENT HELP INVITED.
(United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Cop y right.) (Received February 19, 8.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 18. The question of banning mechanical music, which is displacing the orchestras of the picture houses, will be raised at the Premier’s Conference next week. The Victorian Premier (Mr Hogan) holds definite views on the subject. He declares that musicians, after having spent a lifetime in study, are now misfits in any other calling, simply owing to the stranglehold which America had upon the cinema industry. He added it was only a question of time when they would have no real musicians. He expressed the opinion that the only way to deal with actors and actresses in the talkies, was to tax them, just as is being done in the case of those appearing here in person.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18498, 20 February 1930, Page 9
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142WAR ON “CANNED” MUSIC. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18498, 20 February 1930, Page 9
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