Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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Read it in the December Radio Mirror. Facing the Music {Continued from page 48) affiliates controlled the copyrights was not allowed on the networks, for reasons having to do with money and not particularly interesting to the average listener. On August 5, however, the ban was lifted and the Warner music employees, who had been doing nothing but draw their salaries since the trouble started, could go back to work. Judging from the celebration when they heard the news, they were pretty glad to do so. Instead of being a L'topia, the Warner forces found idleness to be a nightmare. At first they made a pretense of being busy, then they gave this up and abandoned themselves to whatever amusement they could devise. Some played bridge and pinochle; a ping pong table was going full blast every day; the girls brought down their sewing, they read books, they gossiped. Toward the last, they started a guessing game as to when they would go back on the air. 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