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ton. Everyone is looking forward to a fine eve- "SOLDIER" SONG FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL.
ning.
Banks M. Davison, of the White-Smith Music Sentiments of " I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be
Action Brought by Victor Herbert et al. Against
a Soldier" Appeals to Principal of Brooklyn
Thomas Shanley, for Performing Royalties, Co,, was a special guest of The Serenaders at
School Who Teaches It to Students—Art
their dinner at the American House a few nights
Comes Up in U. S. District Court.
Unusual and Significant Incident.
ago. Mr. Davidson also was a gue:-t last year, and
The test case brought by Victor Herbert, Harry i: was with great pleasure that he accepted this
The following item from the School and College
B. and Robert B. Smith, G. Schirmer, the nrti.ic year's invitation. This organization has several
News department of the I'rooklyn. X. V., Daly
publisher, ami others against Thomas Shanley, hundred members made up of banjo, mandolin and
-
proprietor of Shan!ey's Restaurant, to force res- guitar players. Mr. Davison gave the company an Eagle of .April 2.'5 is unusual, not alone from the
taurant keepers to pay royalty on copyrighted com- interesting talk, in the course of which lie caused fact that it indicates the standing of the Feist pub-
positions played by their orchestras, was heard by much merriment by reading some of the bona .ide lication but also ior t u- form in which it appeared
Judge Hand in the United Sates District Court letters that come to his attention from time to in a Metropolitan dai'y, where editors are a sus-
picious and canny lot. Further comment is un-
on Friday of last week. The plaintiffs sued to time, manv of them extremely amusing.
recover royalties alleged to be due for the per- Arthur Xevin, the composer, paid a visit to the necessary.
POPULAR SONG IX SCHOOL
formance of selections from the light opera White-Smith Co. the other day as he was passing
"Sweetheart?," and the case was prosecuted by through Boston on his way to Peterboro, N. H.
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier," Taught at
Nathan Burkan, at.orney for the American So- This large music publishing company has just re-
No. 1C').
ceived the manuscript of Cadman's sonata in A
ciety of Authors, Composers and Publishers.
It was contended that the performance of a major, opus ~>X. which is based on a poem by At the assembly exercises held yesterday morning in
Public School No. Kia, Lott avenue, the 700 boys and girls
selection from a copyrighted opera without the Joaquin M Her called •'From Sea to Sea." This of the two upper grades were taught the words and music
permission of the owners of the performing right is Mr. Cadman's second large work. The com- of the song, "I Didn't Raise My ]5oy to lie a Soldier."
was an infringemeiu of the copyright. After hear- pany reports that the "Desert" songs of Mrs. Ross Alexander Fichandler, the principal of the school, an-
to the children that the sentiments against war ex-
ing arguments for both sides the court took "he are going splendidly, and she is now finishing a nounced
pressed in the song were the thoughts he and the children
war
trilogy
to
be
used
by
Mine.
Schumann-Hiiiik
case under advisement.
<>f the school had been discussing during the past few years.
The suggestion to make the popular ragtime song a school
The suit is a most important one, inasmuch as this coming season.
song, to be sung in the assemblies, came from one of the-
it will serve to settle to a certain extent the rights
youngsters who had been following the discussions from
of the Society of Authors, Composers and Pub- INSTRUMENTAL NUMBERS SUCCEED.
week to week in the assembly. The suggestion appealed 1
lishers to collect royalties for the performance of
so strongly to Mr. Kichanrller that he began the teaching
the works of its members.
The three instrumental numbers that have been of the popular air with the enthusiasm that he takes in all
strongly featured by J. H. Remick & Co. for some music.
Before teaching the music Mr. Fichandler gave one of his.
time past, namely, '"Geraldine," valse hesitation, by weekly musical entertainments.
He played Beethoven's.
A NEW "DUBLIN BAY" DISPLAY.
.Henry Lodge; "'A La Carte," one-step, by Abe Andante Scherzo from the Sonata in D, Op. 28.
in connection with the exploitation of their Holzmann, and "Silver Fox," fox-trot, by Henry
latest song success, "I'm on My Way to Dublin Lodge, are developing into genuine successes it a
A NEW INCORPORATION.
Bay," Jerome H. Remick & Co. have just had surprising rate. It is hard to find an orchesria
prepared for the use of the dealer handsome win- program in any large city on which there is not
The David Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has
dow display cards in which a cut-out effect against represented one of these numbers, especially where been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000'
ar. elaborate scenic background produces an ex- the orchestra plays for dancing. The demand that
for the purpose of engaging in the publishing
cellent effect. The front of the cards, or the cut has been created for the music itself indicates tuat of music and other works. R. C. David heads the
out part, is straight and the background is curved the campaign has been successful.
list of incorporators.
so that the display stands alone, and it serves an
excellent advertisement for the number featured.
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The Small Grand
Ralph L. Flanders, Managing Director of New
England Conservatory, Heads List of Guests
— B . M. Davison Guest of "Serenaders."
(Special to The Review./
BOSTOX, .MASS., April 2(5.—.Music publishers are
gradually beginning to feel the impetus of improv-
ing times and retail houses are glad to note mjre
customers, both teachers and pupils. Apparently
more money is being circulated, and reports of
Easter business are good in nearly all cases. The
next social event which the members of the Bos-
ton Music Publishers' Association have to look
forward to is the dinner called for the evening of
Tuesday, May 4, at the Boston City Club. The
guests will be Ralph L. Flanders, the managing
director of the New England Conservatory of
Music; Louis C. Elson, one of the faculty of Uiat
school and a leading music critic of the city, and
Alex. P. Browne, the copyright attorney of Bos-
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