Lieut. Gitz Rice, who wrote “Mademoiselle from Armentieres” in 1915, when serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France, declared recently that he had “never received a cent” for this popular war song. He was giving evidence before the Canadian' Parliamentary Commission appointed to consider a bill to amend the Copyright Act. Another song written by Rice was “Dear Old Pal o’ Mine.” After much litigation he had collected £2,200 from, companies in the United States for having infringed the copyright of this song, but the whole amount, he said, had gone in legal fees.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3328, 28 July 1931, Page 8
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