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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Conducted by
B. Wilson
NAVY OFFICER BARS "TIPPERARY."
SOCIETY HOLDS FIRST DINNER.
FEATURE CENTURY EDITION.
Lieut. Commander Evans, of Newport Train-
ing Station, Forbids Use of Big H i t by the
Men
Under
Him—Declares It Violates
President's Neutrality .Order—What Next?
American Society of Authors, Composers and
Publishers, Dines President Maxwell at
Luchow's
on Sunday
Evening — Great
Progress on Work of Organization.
Dealers Show Popular Edition in Window Dis-
plays and Also Advertise It Extensively.
According to a dispatch from Newport, R. I.,
the song, "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary,"
will no longer be heard at the United States Naval
Training Station, because Lieutenant Commander
l'rank Taylor Evans, executive officer, has decided
ihat for navy men to sing it is a violation of
President Wilson's neutrality order.
The inarching song seemed to have struck the
popular chord with army and navy men, not be-
cause it was the song of the Allies, but because
it had the ring and rousing chorus suited to the
men of the service.
Last Monday night, when a thousand or more
apprentice seamen at the training station were hav-
ing their weekly motion picture entertainment with
songs between the pictures, the orchestra struck up
"Tipperary" and it was sung with spirit and an
encore was demanded.
While the apprentices were having a vaudeville
show in their theater at the station Thanksgiving
night they sang the chorus of "Tipperary," while
a vaudeville actor led the singing, so Lieutenant
Commander Evans stepped in and issued the or-
der that "Tipperary" was not to be played or sung
by the men.
All that the executive officer would say when
questioned was that the song came under the Presi-
dent's neutrality order.
Inasmuch as there is absolutely nothing martial
or partisan about the wording of the song the
order of the officer appears to be a trifle far-
fetched and unnecessary.
The American Society of Authors, Composers
and Publishers held its first organization dinner at
Luchow's, on East Fourteenth street, on Sunday
evening, with George Maxwell, president of the
society, as guest of honor.
Victor Herbert, vice-president, presided, and at
the table with him were Glen Macdonough, secre-
tary ; John Golden, treasurer; Manuel and Charles
Klein, and Mr. Johnson, former consul to Nicara-
gua, who represented the colored melodists.
Luchow's restaurant was the first place in New
York to agree to the society's demands for the
payment of royalty for the playing of music con-
trolled by its members, which fact was probably
responsible for the. selection of that restaurant as
the scene of the first society dinner.
In order to prove impartiality and to keep from
giving offense, an orchestra from a Staten Island
ferry-boat supplied the music and confined its ef-
forts to the playing of "The Blue Danube" waltz,
upon which the copyright has run out.
There was a lot of serious talk about the work
of the society after the coffee was served.
"We now have eighty-five hotels on our list,"
President Maxwell, of the society, said, "and the
others will soon fall into line. We have a schedule
of license taxes of $15, $10, and $5 a month for
different classes of places, and the average for the
places which now pay the license is $8.23 a month.
There are 105,000 moving picture theaters in the
country. Now, I think I am conservative in saying
that within a few years we will have 100,000 places
in the country paying license fees, and that Will
amount to $823,000 a month, or $9,876,000 a year.
If half of that is taken up in expenses, we will have
$4,928,000 to divide among our members, pro rata
in accordance with the popularity of their works.' 1
STAMP TAX ON COPYRIGHT.
Ten
Cent Internal Revenue Stamp Must Be
Fixed to Applications After December 1.
The various music publishers have received of-
ficial notice from the Government that after De-
cember 1 all applications for copyright must have
affixed thereto a ten cent Internal Revenue stamp,
this being a part of the special war tax recently
provided for by Congress. Judging from the num-
ber of publications issued by some of the houses,
the new tax will prove a considerable burden in
seme cases.
A GOOD MONTHS BUSINESS.
Meyer Cojjen, manager for Charles K. Harris,
declares that the business of that house during the
month of November equaled and, in fact, slightly
surpassed the business for the same month last
year, which fact, considering the conditions tha
have existed, should be taken as an actual busi-
ness gain.
The Verlander Music House, a new concern, of
which J. A. Verlander is president, has opened
warerooms at 3207 Magazine street, New Orleans,
La.
We are the publishers of
THE
SONG OF SONGS
(Chanson du coeur brise)
Music by Moya
Three keys: Ab, Bb and D
SEND 12 CENTS FOR SAMPLE COPY
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., - NEW YORK
Canadian Branchi 347 Yonga St., TORONTO
WINS PAVLOWA'S PRIZE FOR MUSIC.
Natives of Wisconsin Awarded Prizes in Re-
cent Contest Conducted Under the Direc-
tion of the Famous Russian Dancer.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 30.—Edward C.
Moore, music editor of the Chicago Journal, and
Henry B. Ackley, two of the winning composers
in the music contest recently conducted under the
direction of Pavlowa, the famous Russian dancer,
are natives of Wisconsin.
Mr. Moore, the winner with P. I. Jacoby, of
San Francisco, of the $500 cash prize for the new
social dance composition, called the "Pavlowana,"
was formerly a resident of Fond du Lac, Wis.
Mr. Ackley, a junior at Carroll College, of Wau-
kesha, Wis., with Harry Auracher, of Chicago,
won another $500 prize for the production of the
"Pavlowa Waltz." Mr. Ackley is but nineteen
years old. It is understood that the new compo-
sitions will be used by Pavlowa on her American
tour this season.
A BIG JOB FOR SOMEBODY.
Al Jolson, who is singing "Sister Susie's Sew-
ing Shirts for Soldiers" with tremendous success
in "Dancing Around" at the Winter Garden, has
decided there is room for another verse to the
song, and has offered a prize of a box for the per-
formance of "Dancing Around' 1 to the aspiring
amateur or professional songwriter who shall sub-
mit the best chorus. It is suggested that the new
chorus be built up around the word Knit.
The manner in which the music dealers in vari-
ous sections of the country are co-operating with
the Century Music Publishing Co. in the exten-
sive campaign of publicity is indicated by the ac-
companying illustration, which shows a most at-
tractive window display of Century Edition in the
store of H. A. Minium, a prominent music dealer
of Carlisle, Pa. As will be seen, a number of
copies of Century Edition are displayed promi-
nently, and in addition several interesting signs and
the Century Edition trade-mark, the music lyre,
were arranged attractively. Other dealers have
also had at various times special Century Edition
windows, and several hundred of them have se-
cured advertising electros from the company for
use in their local papers, a big stack of proofs of
which are on file at the headquarters of the Cen-
tury Co.
Jerome H. Remick, president of Jerome H. Re-
mick & Co., was in New York this week and spent
some time at the local headquarters of the com-
pany.
McKINLEY SUCCESSES
SONG HITS
One Wonderful Night (You Told Me
You Loved Me)
Sue of the Cumberland*
The Frisco Cabaret (Rag Song)
In the Evening by the Moonlight in
Dear Old Tennessee.
Alice of Old Vincennes
I Long to Hear the Old Church Choir
Again
When You Sang "The Palms" to Me
Diane of the Green Van t
Sing Me the Rosary
Hurrah for the Christmas Ship
DANCE SUCCESSES
Original Fox Trot (Klickman)
Daddy Long Legs Hesitation Waltz
Dream Waltz from "Tales of Hoffman"
One Wonderful Night, Hesitation Waltz
Hesitation Waltz (Klickman)
Publishers of the
"FAMOUS McKINLEY TEN CENT MUSIC"
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
Chicago
New York