Music: Millworkers

In its boldest front-page headlines the tradesheet Variety last week chronicled the dearth of Broadway musical shows, fixed the blame on the Hollywood songwriting mills' which offer big pay and security to the tunesters who got their start in Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley. When Jiibilee and At Home Abroad closed fortnight ago, only four musicomedies remained on Broadway, the mid-season low since the beginning of the War. Simultaneously. Variety's radio log showed that the tune most played on the air was I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, one of Irving Berlin's...

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