BANKRUPT COMPOSER.
LESLIE -STUART'S FAILURE
PHI AT rXG OF POPULAR SONGS
LONDON, October 30
Examined in tho Insolvency Court today, Thomas Augustine Barnett, better known as Leslie Stuart, composer of tho
comio opera "FLoradora" and the writer, of many popular songs, said that before he began writing operas he earned £10 & week composing church music and songs. The operas he had written in the last thirteen years had yielded £40,000. His successful songs, including "Soldiers of the Queen," had proved lucrative, but the royalties disappeared, because when they became popular they were pirated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 8 November 1912, Page 7
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93BANKRUPT COMPOSER. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 8 November 1912, Page 7
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