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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
est in the superintendence of the professional
and other departments in the Witmark build-
Plans for Holding 1915 Annual Meeting of Na-
ing, 144 West Thirty-seventh street, will be
tional Sheet Music Dealers' Association in
in personal charge at the uptown professional
San Francisco Will Probably Be Abandoned
rooms. He' is supported by an efficient staff
i n , Favor of Sessions Held in New York.
under the management of Al Cook, and in-
According to present prospects the annual meet- cluding Ernest R. Ball, Earl Carroll, Lou
Hirsch, Anatol Friedland, Jack Matthews,
ing of the National Sheet Music DeaL'rs' Associa-
tion, 'Which was organized in New York last Aug- Jack Brennan, Harold Dellon, Louis Pressler
and Robert Harding. Witmark & Sons re-
ust, Will not be held in San Francisco this sum-
mer, as planned, hut will probably he called in ceived many congratulatory messages regard-
ing the opening of the new quarters, and the
New York. When San Francisco was suggested
floral
tributes were also numerous.
last year it was hoped that the Music Publishers'
The main professional rooms in the Wit-
Association of the United States would meet in
mark building on West Thirty-seventh street
that city. As the publishers' organization will meet
will not be abandoned; but, under the direc-
in New York, as usual, on June 15, however, the
officers of the dealers' association are planning to tion of Louis Lesure, will be devoted to the
hold the sessions of that body here prior to the use of those professionals who desire to de-
vote extra time to rehearsals of music.
publishers' meeting, in order that suggestions for
trade reforms may be made and considered imme-
diately afterward by the publishers.
MUSIC LIBRARIAN NAMED.
DEALERS TO MEET IN NEW YORK.
RECIPROCITY]^ COPYRIGHT.
President Issues Proclamation Granting Full
Protection Under United States Copyright
Law Covering Mechanical Reproduction to
British Citizens—Effective January, 1915.
Following the issuance of orders in council in
Great Britain, whereby the citizens of the United
States shall enjoy the full protection of the British
copyright law as il applies to the mechanical re-
production of musical compositions, the President
of^tlie United States has issued a proclamation
granting In the citizens of Great Britain the same
inflection under article one, section E of the copy-
rjglu law of 1909. The proclamation became ef-
ffcetive on January 1, 1915.
i As a result of the proclamation British music
.iblishers will be able to collect mechanical roy.il-
es in this country from talking machine record
id music roll manufacturers, something they
ave been unable to do legally in the past.
ijiEW PROFESSIONAL ROOMS OPENED.
ptown Quarters of M. Witmark & Sons, at
1560 Broadway, Prove Very Convenient for
Singers—Well
Located
and
Handsomely
Equipped—Julius P. Witmark in Charge.
The uptown professional rooms of M. Witman-c
Sons, at 1500 Broadway, in the heart of the tlu-
:rical district and only two doors below the Pal-
re Theater building, where the United Booking
(Offices are located, were formally opened last week
$nd from the first hour of the opening were con-
s aiitly crowded with professional singers.
The new professional rooms have been hand-
si imely decorated and elaborately equipped
I iroughout, with good taste and convenience the
i tiling factors. In addition to the general offices
i id stock rooms, there are provided in the new
( carters a large reception room and eight separate
I iano studios which, during the first week, have
been hard put to accommodate all the singers
who have applied.
Julius P. Witmark, who took a particular inter-
We are the publishers of
THE SONG OF SONGS
(Chatuon du toeur brise)
Music by Maya
Three Keys: Ab, Bb and D
Send 12 Cents for Sample Copy
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41E. 34th St., NEW YORK
Canadim Branch
347 Yonge St., TORONTO
Dr.
Otto
Music
Kinkeldey Appointed Chief
Division of Public Library.
of
ONE MILLION COPIES
will be sold of these 3 big instrumental hits. We picked
them aa our "Big" one* for 1915 and we are going After
"good and forte." You know what that means.
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SILVER FOX
FOX TROT
An instantaneous iure fire Raggy Fox Trot I
hit by Henry Lodge. We are having calU for j
it everywhere.
A LA CARTE
ONE STEP
Abe Holimann's jingling, tingling, ringing
one step. A sensational instrumental number.
GERALDINE
VALSE HESITATION
The trustees of the New York Public Li-
The catchiest, most snelodious and charming
waltz published.
A musical masterpiece by
brary have appointed Dr. Otto Kinkeldey
Henry Lodge,
chief of the music division of the library. This
is regarded as an important step in the plans
of the library authorities to develop and in-
JEROME H. REMICK & CO.
crease the resources and scope of the music
THK HOUSE THAT MADE INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC FAMOUS IN AMERICA
division, which has not heretofore had all the
NEW YORK, N. Y.
attention paid to it that its importance war-
.DETROIT, MICH.
rants. Dr. Kinkeldey is a musical scholar of
Americans who have ever been appointed
GOOD MUSIC DEMAND IN CANADA
note and authority, and is one of the few
a professor in a German university. He is a New
Reports Walter Eastman, of Chappell & Co.,
Yorker, was born in 1878, was graduated from the
Upon Return from Toronto.
College of the City of New York, studied English
literature and philosophy as a post-graduate at
Walter Eastman, manager for Chappell & Co.,
New York University and then did post-graduate
Ltd., in New York and Toronto, returned this
work in music at Columbia University under Ed-
week from a visit to the Toronto store of the com-
ward MacDowell. In 1902 he went abroad to con-
pany and stated that conditions on the other side
tinue his musical and historical studies under
of the hnrder were surprisingly close to normal,
Hermann Kretzschmar at Berlin University. In
in all lines of trade, with the demand for music
1906 and 1907 he was sent by the Prussian Govern- keeping up very satisfactorily. The new patriotic
ment on a musical research trip through some of
song by Paul Rubens, "Your Flag and Country
the most important libraries of Central Germany
Want You," is proving very popular in Canada
to catalogue and describe printed and manuscript and is selling at a great rate.
music in them.
"TENNESSEE" SONG IN NEW FORM.
Following Opening Round of Suit of Boosey &
Co. vs. Empire Music Co. in Infringement
Case, Offending Song Is Remodeled.
As a result of the recent action brought "by
Boosey & Co., against the Empire Music Co.,
charging that the song "Tennessee, I Hear You
Calling Me," published by the latter, was an in-
fringement of "I Hear You Calling Me," pub-
lished by Booeey & Co., and the subsequent order
of the court, suspending an injunction providing
the defendants filed a bond and a statement of
sales, it is stated that the song "Tennessee, I Hear
You Calling Me," in its original form has been
practically withdrawn from the market.
The
statement of sales from February 15 to March 1. as
filed, totaled only ninety-five copies of the song
sold, as compared to considerably over 40,000
copies sold before that date.
Another song with the shorter title, "Tennessee"
has made its appearance, and much resembles the
number complained of. with ihe exception that the
sections that gave offense have been rewritten both
in the words and the melody.
The case of Boosey & Co. vs. the Empire Music
Co.. has not yet come to trial, but it is expected
that it will attract unusual attention in trade cir-
cles as setting a precedent for the decision of other
cases in which allegations of copyright infringe-
ment are made.
The promised revival of the cake-waik craze of
some years ago has influenced a surprising number
of publishers to announce new music of that char-
acter. It will be a relief from the war songs.
McKINLEY'S TREMENDOUS HIT
HE WONDERFUL NIGHT
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