Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-18
Cleaned from Foreign Ex.
changes

me sum or 1of yUooJ l6Ll Dy the com poser of the famous Indian Love Lyrics Mrs. Amy Woodforde-F Finden, is an indication of the money that has been and in being made by composers of songs that sell.
 Interviewed yesterday. a member of large music publishing firm told a Daily Chronical' representative that today, more than ever. there is money in songs. He instanced '>The Rosary" which brought in hundreds of pounds, and Soldiers of the Queen" which was a small gold mine for Leslie Stuart Although Soldiers of the Queen" was composed some time ago it is still being printed.
 Other songs which are sources of steady incomes are:-
 Roses of Picardy."
 Little Grey Home in the Vest
 '''Fhe Sunshine of Your Smile"
 Rose in the Bud' and
 "The Long. Long Trail" MT James W. Tate, better known as That" madH s6,000 out of If I Should Plant Tiny Seed of Love-" a song which he composed in less than half an hour.
 "Way Back Home" composed in the i trenches by Herbert Mackenzie, sold to the extent of over 10000 copies within 1 the first six months of publication 1 The Trail that Leads to Home" by l the same composer, brought in several | hundreds of pounds.
 l Fifteen hundred pounds 8 year is a modest estimate of the income made i by the composer of popular song. for to the English and American royalties must be added those accuring from Gra anophone records.
 After three and half years of ac- 1 tive. not to say lively. service. the i Balkan News is now demobilised. ] We have just received a. copy of the 1 last number in which the editor takes 1 leave Of his readers in an editorial i in which he says: I've stood to the 1 best of our ability for England and ] the English idea-great and patient ! Britain which during the war said so i little and did 50 much Only those who served with the ; B. s. r. can appreciate how much this : little four-p pager did to keep it's req ders {, in touch with home and the Mother 1 land. Moreover, it was the first daily newspaper to he produced purely for
 the needs of British Army. and for ! this it is be honoured in passing.
 Perhaps not the least of the fame of Walt Whitman. whose centenary is tc he celebrated. lies in the fact that he l was not a Bostonian or a native ot that State of which it has been saiG that Boston is. Or was, the final ex- precision.
 Hawthorne, Emerisou. Lowell Long fellow, Holmes and Dana-when you have mentioned these names you have plunged deep into the list of Ameri- can writers who are widely read eut of America, at least in belles letters and all had. Boston. associations. Wal ! Whitman was not Boston = he wa.
 himself, unique and inimitabIe One of the features of the Women, Floral Ball, to be held at the Alber Hall will be battle of flowers during the Floral Dance, the old Cornish fes.
 tival, whey1 showers of roses will fal
 on the dancers. Mir. Ernest Thesige,
 will lead the dance as Pan.
 Enormous festoons of flowers will b,
 suspended from the roof and thu
 shades of the lamps will be drapet ; with ropes of flowers. In all som, TO- GOO roses arc being used in the de.
 coration, and 100000 sprays of aspara
 gus fern.
 Most of the boxes are being decorat ed hy their .occun2nts with dfferen
 flowers. Lady I{chesters box will b.
 a noase of scarlet roses, the Countes of Lindsay will strilse q new note witt , lilac and h1uehnllr. and Lady Hultol has selected lilac. wisteria, and blue , bells.
 "Mr. Harry George Ha<wer is ol, for active work ;n the air, as airrnel 7 reckon age. He i5 now s. but-a life
 long tee-tota7i4~ ard non -srnoler-h . does not look his years"
 Thus the Times" which ought t be an authority on the matter. NJ, } Hawker does not look 3S. and so ia : he has successfully passed as te
 years younger.
 l Tn most newspaper biographies hi 9 age is given as 2S; iu some as yea : i younger IL was in 1912 that h a achieved fame as a pilot by winair the MicIrelin Prize. and he struck o- . 1 teristic moaeetlv he has kept his nam might throw light on the question. Il strornboi, once more nisbehar;r
 bears a nar1e which was oriefnai Il
 Strongyle nearing round" and Ger iE<a from the shape of the islet. It one of a group Of volcanic island $ which. with neighboring Ftna, formc e the worlds oldest runition work d where Vulcan, using sweated Cyclop n labour, forged tho thunderbolts
 love.
 These little islands were formerl n tenarted by another god, a swa nkin : old rufflan named Aeohus. who presid ', ed over the winds. He proha bly, ble' u the bellows for the blacksmith go, T and raised the wind for him wte
 he ,wanted capital. Neither vulca