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THE.
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
or other matter it does not wait to see if there is
'anything in it' before publishing, but handles it
when it is 'live,' and of contemporaneous interest
to the trade. That is a great blemish in the
music trade press, excepting The Review, and in
no instance is this more emphatically proven than
in connection with the copyright bill. The con-
ferences were regularly reported, and the legis-
lation they had in view was kept steadily before
the trade and intelligently commented upon. Not
another paper referred to this mattei\ of such
transcending importance, excepting by indirection
or by brief statements, in which the facts were
so garbled as to do more harm than good. Why,
one of the journals which boasts pre-eminence
knows so little about the copyright bill as to call
it the Bennett bill in their current issue. The for-
mer, as everybody knows who knows anything,
was framed by the copyright office, approved by
the conferences and introduced by the chairman
of the respective patent committees of the Senate
and House as an administration measure. The
Bennett bill dealt solely with the hiring or leas-
ing of musical publications, and was intended to
legalize this species of robbery. These observa-
tions I make in no spirit of captious criticism,
but it only goes to prove tnat unless there is
'something in it' how indifferent and careless the
music papers can be and not half try. The Re-
view can always be relied upon, and its remark;
regarding the inaction of the publishers' con-
vention were entirely in order and apropos to the
occasion."
as close as possible to the title, words and mel-
THE STARS, THE STRIPES AND YOU.
ody. The new copyright bill deals a death blow
M. Witmark & Sons have in press a new
to these scampish tricks, only too prevalent with
a certain class of publishers.
march ballad from which they look for great
results. Those who have been favored with a
manuscript hearing predict that it will be as
LIBRARIAN PUTNAM'S VIEWS
great a hit as "Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good-Bye."
The subject of the song is a soldier leaving his
On Charges Made That Copyright Conferences
native place and bidding his sweetheart fare-
Were Star-Chamber
Proceedings—Makes
we;l. He tells her that his inspiration, in the
His Position Clear in This Respect.
midst of shot and shell, the smoke and dangers
of battle, will be "The Stars, the Stripes and
At the risk of absorbing more space in this You." The words are full of a beautiful senti-
department of The Review than should be reason- ment, combined with a noble and inspiring pa-
ably spared with references to the copyright bill triotism, set to music that is very taking, bril-
now pending in Congress, the charge of the oppo- liant, martial and stirring. The illustrations of
sition that the conferences were star chamber the song were made in Peekskill, N. Y., while
sessions, from which certain interests directly the Seventy-first Regiment, N. Y. N. G., was in
and vitally concerned were excluded, the report camp, and where De Witt Wheeler spent a week
of Hon. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, taking various poses. These illustrations, com-
who presided at these meetings, and under whose bined with the song, will surely arouse enthu-
official supervision the measure was drawn, will siasm of any audience.
ciear up the point. The Librarian minces no
words nor makes no excuses for consulting only
STERN & CO.'S HAPPY HITS.
• those that are concerned in an affirmative way
with the protection of the right." Further, he
Burt and Solman's Turkish song hit, "Milo,"
frankly asserts, "the mere pirate * * * w a s is heard to the best advantage at the Cafe Lib-
not invited." This extract should not be over- erty or "Little Hungary," where it is sung to the
looked, in justice to an honorable official who has accompaniment of the Hungarian orchestra there.
made "a sincere attempt, as we have seen it, to Another song which is very popular there is
frame a reasonable general statute," as follows:
"Twilight Hour," by Benjamin Hapgood Burt
"If the bill reveals some selfishness, it is perhaps
and J. P. Greenberg.
I'cnelonable. It is the selfishness of nien trying to pro-
The singing of Nibbe and Bordeaux, comedy
tect their own property ; for of course, as I have em-
entertainers, who appeared recently at Tony Pas-
phasized, the interests that were especially Invited to
Imitations of "Waiting at the Church" are be- the conferences were those that are concerned In an tor's, New York, is especially good, each having
affirmative way with the protection of the right. The a voice that rings clear and true, and their
ing heard from. One of the leading publishers,
conferences were not generally representative—com-
songs are carefully selected from the best ma-
who should be guiltless of such contemptible pletely representative—in other respects.
The bill
terial that "The House of Hits" affords. It is a
has that purpose—that is, for the protection particu-
practices, have instructed their writers to come
larly of the property. It comes before you for consid-
treat to hear them sing such numbers as "Com-
eration on the ground that it goes too far. It does not
ing Home from Coney Isle," "I'll Keep a Warm
create, of course, a new species of property ; it merely
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
recognizes a species of property created by the O u - Spot in My Heart for You," "Waltz Me, Bill,"
st itution and already recognized by statute. Its pur- and "Then the Evening Breeze Is Sighing Home,
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pose is simply to secure to the man who has created it
Sweet Home." This team has been re-engaged
a species of property which peculiarly requires the pro- for Pastor's, and has signed to go with one of
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remunerative to him lays it open to expropriation—that
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"It may be said that the public was not represented
at the conferences. The public in this matter would,
1 suppose, belong to one of four classes : In the first
jilac- 1 , the producer, the creator, with his publisher and
manufacturer; or, second, one who is to enjoy the
work as a consumer; or, third, one who wishes to
utilize the woik in some other work, or to produce and
market it for his own benefit, when this can be done
innocently; or, fourth, the student and critic of the
rights and obligations of property, and of the regula-
tion of this by law. There may be a fifth class, I he
mere pirate. He was not invited to the conferences,
and I suppose he would not be to your hearings. Jiut
the innocent reproducer was not unrepresented at the
conferences of in the discussions.
In fact, most of
the producers were also reproducers, and quite insistent
upon their convenience as such.
The original pro-
ducers, publishers and manufacturers were there as of
right, and the student and critic through their Interest
and public spirit.
As for the consumers, two con-
siderable groups were actually represented, and more
would have Iven if organizations could have been
found to represent them. Others also there spoke for
them.
"Hut, as I understand it, it is in the interest of the
coiiMinuT ju.-t because it is in the interest of the pro-
ducer that copyright laws were originally designed, and
were called for by the Constitution ; and if this pro-
posed one fails fairly to regard that interest of the con-
sumer, its defects will surely be brought to your
attention by the third great estate which is jealous of
those interests—th^ newspaper and periodical press. 1 '
Two New Musical Comedy Successes.
"HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR,"
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"THE MAN FROM NOW,"
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