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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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sociation in regard to the "Canadian pi-
rates" who are flooding this country with
spurious editions of the latest copyrighted
popular songs, as reported in The Review
last week, has been widely commented on
by newspapers all over the country.
It is claimed that the legitimate music
publishing business in this country has
fallen off fifty per cent, in the past
twelve months, as the result of copyright
violations. Recent investigation has re-
vealed that all of the most popular pieces
have been counterfeited, despite the fact
that they are copyrighted, and by unknown
publishers are sold at from two to five
cents per copy, though the original com-
positions sell at from twenty to forty cents
per copy. Fully 5,000,000 copies of these
spurious songs were printed and sold in the
month of May.
A committee has been appointed to fight
the "pirates," consisting of T. B. Harms,
Isidor Witmark and H. W. Gray.
The modus operandi of the offending
publishers is in part worked through the
newspapers which publish lists of music to
be sold at say ten cents a copy. The Post
Office box given belongs to the newspaper,
and it takes half of all the money sent as
pay for the advertising, and the other half
goes to the "pirate," who sends the music
by mail.
If the Post Office authorities stop such
mail matter because it infringes the copy-
right law, it is returned to the publisher,
after thirty days, under our law, and the
only one who is out is the person who sends
the ten cents. The Canadian law is less
lenient, as it provides for the destruction
of contraband matter sent over the line by
American violators of copyright law.
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"The Stars and Stripes Forever" is the
breezy title of the new march with which
Sousa opens the season at Manhattan
Beach to-day. This composition, as recent-
ly noticed in The Review, is published by
the John Church Co. When it was first
played at the Washington Monument dedi-
cation, in Philadelphia last month, it dis-
turbed the Quaker quiet of that place so
abruptly that one reviewer exclaimed in
cold type: "It is stirring enough to rouse
the American Eagle from his crag and
set him to shrieking exultantly while he
hurls his arrows at the aurora borealis."
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The worry-cow might have lived till now
If she hadn't lost her breath—
But she thought her hay wouldn't last all day,
So she worried herself to death.
all day, and that there will be more hay to-
morrow?
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The Mexican people are very fond of
good music, and as far as good band music
goes this liking can be frequently gratified.
The military authorities of Mexico believe
in military bands and they believe in mak-
ing use of them. There are from six to
eight, and even more, free open-air band
concerts in Mexico City every week in the
year. On Thursday mornings some one of
the fine bands always plays in the Alameda
for the benefit of the children, principally.
Again on Sunday, from 10 o'clock to 1, you
may always enjoy good music as you sit
under the canvas canopy erected over the
main thoroughfare and watch the fashion-
able throng promenade back and forth. In
the Zocalo, or main plaza, bands play sev-
eral times a week, both mornings and
evenings. There is a band-stand at the
first glorietta in the Paseo, and here on
Tuesday mornings and Sunday afternoons
and evenings, as the handsome turnouts
drive by, they are treated to lively airs.
The picture shows that the inclosure in
which the poor worry-cow is confined con-
tains several stacks of hay, enough to last
her for months. But that didn't make any
difference; she worried herself to death,
just the same.
The worry-cow and the worry-man live
A large poster is being displayed in the
in the same town, says Brains. The worry-
cow belongs to the worry-man. The worry- window of the Wissner warerooms, 23 East
man is afraid that the money he spends in Fourteenth street, representing- the Seidl
advertising won't come back. He is afraid orchestra, under the baton of the distin-
that the business will go to smash if he guished director, while upon the stage is a
spends a dollar. So he starves his busi- magnificent concert grand piano with Mme.
Julia Rive-King at the keyboard. The
ness to death.
What shall we do with the worry-man? poster is not only a splendid advertisement
How shall we convince him that a few dol- for the Seidl organization but an equally
lars spent to gain a great many dollars is effective one for the Wissner piano. It
money well spent—that the hay will last will be used during Seidl's concert tour.
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