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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
60
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
PLAN NEW TRADE ORGANIZATION.
TAKE ACTION AGAINST PIRATES.
"HIT PICKERS^NUMEROUS.
Dinner at Hotel Breslin on Tuesday Evening of
Next Week to Organize Music Publishers
and Dealers of Greater New York in Asso-
ciation, with Trade Friendship as Its Object.
Chappell & Co. to Prosecute Those Who Re- $50,000 Salary Mentioned in Sunday News-
paper Story as Ready for the Man Who
print the Words and Music of "It's a Long,
Could Pick a Song Hit Each Month Brings
Long Way to Tipperary" Without Permission
Many Applicants for the Position.
—Secure Summons for One Offender.
Unless present plans go awry, there will be a new
organization of local music publishers and dealers
in existence on Tuesday of next week as the result
of an informal "get-together" dinner of a number
of publishers and dealers held at the Hotel Breslin,
New York, on December 15.
On the occasion referred to several members of
the trade held a dinner, mainly for the purpose of
spending a pleasant evening in each others' com-
pany and with formal discussions of trade sub-
jects, especially the so-called "evils," strictly
barred. The dinner was such a success that a com-
mittee was appointed, with W. L. Coghill, manager
of the music department of the John Church Co.,
as chairman, to lay plans for a permanent organ-
ization to hold such purely social gatherings at
regular or irregular intervals throughout the year.
The invitation committee referred to, in which is
represented many of the leading publishing and re-
tailing concerns of the city, has sent out a call for
a dinner to be held at the Hotel Breslin on next
Tuesday evening, January 19, and to which every
music publisher and dealer doing business in
Greater New York is invited, regardless of the class
of music he publishes or the amount of retail busi-
ness he does. The charge for the dinner will be
merely nominal.
It is the hope of those back of the project to
see the venture develop to a point where a perma-
nent club will be formed, with suitable quarters
where members can go on any occasion, enjoy the
privileges of the ordinary club, and leave when
convenient. The new organization plans absolutely
new rules and regulations looking toward the
changing of trade conditions or practices. It is
felt that with the majority of the trade members in
the proposed organization and meeting on a friendly
basis at intervals, many of the conditions at present
complained of will right themselves automatically,
and moreover, every member will be able to gain,
through informal and friendly communication with
his fellow publishers or dealers, new business ideas
that will prove of inestimable value. At least, from
the number of prominent houses already enlisted in
the cause, the success of the proposed organization
appears to be assured.
Chappell & Co., Ltd., who hold the sales rights in
the United 'States for "It's a Long, Long Way to
Tipperary," having become tired of the various at-
tempts that have been made to republish the words
and music of that song without due permission,
have taken action against the publisher of one of
the cheap types of "songsters,"' and as a preliminary
have caused a summons to be. served on the pub-
lisher. Further steps will depend upon willingness
of the offending publisher to. listen to the voice of
reason.
Chappell & Co. are watching their interests
closely, and other actions will probably be brought
against certain publishers in the near future.
NEW PLANT FOR G. SCHIRMER, INC.
In one of the Sunday newspapers there was a
long feature story to the effCc.tvthat L.eo Feist, Inc.,
stood ready to pay a salary of "'$50,000 annually to
any man who could pick one s"$ttg hit every month.
That there are a**humbcr ^f^OjOOO men still at
large was evidenced by the fact that by D.30 Mon-
day morning General Manager Bttner, of the Feist
house, had before him the applications of eleven
men for the job of "hit picker." One of the ap-
plicants offered to pick a hit each week for the
stated salary.
ANTI-WAR SONG PROVES A SUCCESS.
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" Makes
Excellent Impression on Vaudeville Audi-
ences—Some Recent Comment.
Prominent Publishing House Leases Large
Plot in Long Island City for Building.
The manner in which the latest Leo Feist "anti-
war" song impresses the audiences in the vaude-
ville theatres in which it is beinjj sung at the
The house of G. Schirmer, Inc., the prominent
present time is indicated by the following article
music publisher, with headquarters at 3 East
which recently appeared in the Scranton (Pa.)
Forty-third street, New York, has leased a plot on
News:
Thomson Hill, Long Island City, ?nd will erect a
"A rousing, record-breaking song hit is 'I Didn't
modern plant on the property to accommodate its
Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,' which is being in-
business. The plans call for a combined one and
troduced to Poli patrons by Leon Kimberly and
two-story building to measure 220x290 feet. The
Halsey Mohr this week. They added this song to
ground floor will be devoted to the printing plant
their repertoire Thursday night and achieved a
and the upper story to general offices and the ship-
brilliant success, Mr. Kimberly being called back
ping department. The building will enclose 63,000 to sing it over several times. Again yesterday
square feet of floor space.
afternoon and last night a big success was scored,
and within a short time it is likely that this entire
CHAS. K. HARRIS BALLAD.
country will be whistling or singing the dandy
"Can You Pay for a Broken Heart?" the Latest
number that fairly thrills with its sentiment. Kim-
Offering of Prominent Composer-Publisher—
berly and Mohr are the first to sing the number
Mike Bernard's "Neutrality March" on the and Scranton is hearing it first.
Market—May Be Used for Dance Music.
"The song is absolutely neutral and may refer
to
any one of the hundreds of thousands of
Charles K. Harris, who works on the theory
that two or three good and carefully worked out mothers who have seen their sons march away to
songs a year are worth several songs produced with the battlefields of Europe.
"The particular mother in the song refers to the
a rush, and show the effects of that rush, has just
placed on the market his first ballad for 1915, en- raising of her son to be her pride and joy, then
titled "Can You Pay for a Broken Heart?" The asks who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,
new song, as is usually the case with the Harris following this with the lines, 'I didn't raise my boy
ballads, tells a real story and has been particularly to be a soldier.'
"Both Mr. Mohr and Mr. Kimberly are well
well received by the singers who have heard and
known entertainers, and they declare that the song
are using the number.
LEHAR AND FALL CAPTURED.
Another Harris publication for which much is
expected is the "Neutrality March," a new march
Composers of Viennese Operettas Reported to
of strong "Sousa" flavor composed by Mike Ber-
Be in-the Hands of the Russians.
SONG HITS
nard, the Paderewski of ragtime. The new march
According to a report from Paris last week, both is offered in an attractive title page showing the
One Wonderful Night (You Told Me
Franz Lehar, composer of "The Merry Widow" figure of Uncle Sam surrounded by the flags of
You Loved Me)
and subsequent successes, and Leo Fall, composer the several European nations. In addition to its
Sue of the Cumberland*
of "The Eternal Waltz" and other operettas, have fitness for use by military bands the new number
The Frisco Ccbaret (Rag Song)
been captured by the Russians while serving as can also be used by orchestras for the one step
In the Evening by the Moonlight in
Dear Old Tennessee.
officers with the Austrian army in Galicia. If the and fox trot.
Alice of Old Vincennes
dispatch is as accurate as that regarding the killing
I Long to Hear the Old Church Choir
of Kreisler, the violinist, Lehar and Fall may be
PIANO MAN'S WIFE A COMPOSER.
Again
expected to be heard from next as in London and
Mrs. Jennie La Forge Cutler Responsible for
When You Sang "The Palms" to Me
bound for New York.
Three Dainty Songs Just Published by New
Diane of the Green Van
York House.
Sing Me the Rosary
We are the publishers of
Hurrah for the Christmas Ship
Mrs. Jennie La Forge Cutler, wife of John B.
DANCE SUCCESSES
Cutler, a well-known piano salesman connected
Original Fox Trot (Klickman)
with the Mason & Hamlin Co. in New York, has
Daddy Long Legs Hesitation Waltz
just come to the front as a composer, and the first
Dream Waltz from "Tales of Hoffman"
(Chanson du coeur brise)
of her compositions has just been published by
Music by Moya
One Wonderful Night, Hesitation Waltz
Luckhardt & Belder, New York. Mrs. Cutler's first
Three keys: Ab, Bb and D
Hesitation Waltz (Klickman)
effort to be presented to the public consists of a set
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of three dainty and pleasing songs, entitled "A
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Song of Motherhood," "A Ship of Dreams" and
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"Song of the Wind," and indicate that the com-
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