Music: The Melody Lingers On

Shine, little glowworm, glimmer,

glimmer,

Shine, little glowworm, glimmer,

glimmer,

Lead us, lest too far we wander,

Love's sweet voice is calling yonder!

That was the way Glow-Worm used to go—sentimentally enough to sell 4,000,000 copies of the sheet music alone since its publication in 1902.* But the copyright on the old Paul Lincke song runs out soon; performers then will be able to sing it, if they feel like it, without paying royalties to Manhattan's Edward B. Marks Music Corp. This summer, in an imaginative bid to keep ahead of the market, Marks got...

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