Musicians Profit by Phonograph

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 10

Musicians Profit by Phonograph

If Caruso, the great tenor, happens to lose his voice or become incapacitate t because of such illness as has k-ept hun off the operatic stage the last half of IWo seasons, ho will feel consoled by th * knowledge that his royalties from a phonograph company will eweed 100,Off) dollars a year for many vears to come; while Madame Tetrazzini is grateful that the came company refused to pay her 1000 dollars five years rjo for the very same effort that they are now paying her 35.000 dollars a year for. Then the diva was willing to take the lower figure outright for her records, but a year ago ehe demanded a bonus of 23,000 dollars, besides the royalties, and she got it.— I’com the ‘‘Popular Mechanics Magazine.”