Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
54
the department, reports a very good business. This
department adjoins the book and juvenile depart-
Past Season Has Proven an Excellent One for ments of the store and this no doubt helps to at-
the Sheet Music Dealers in That City—Pro-
tract many customers from among the "real shop-
duction Numbers Have the Call—Local As- pers" who happen to come to the other popular de-
sociation Suggested—Some Best Sellers.
partments. Music from the production of "The
Girl Who Smiles," published by Jerome H. Remick
& Co., had the biggest sale of any of the musical
(Special to The Review.)
BALTIMORE, MD., January 3.—The season just productions that have appeared here this season.
closed has been a big one for the sheet music deal- Keefe, Langton and Wheeler are singing "Molly
ers of Baltimore and in all classes of establishments Dear, It's You I'm After" and "Honeymoon
that have departments for sheet music business has
Babes" at the Victoria this week.
shown improvement over last year. All of the deal-
Miss M. Kinglyon, manager of the F. W. Wool-
ers and the managers of the departments of the va- worth Co.'s department, reports big business in
rious stores are optimistic and have every reason the ten-cent music. The big sellers with this firm
to believe that the business will continue. Many big are "Norway," "Back Home in Tennessee" and "On
window displays of sheet music are to be found in the Way to Home, Sweet Home." "Mother" is
all sections of the city, and this general featuring having a big run and Miss Kinglyon believes it is
has no doubt helped sale.
destined for an unprecedented sale.
A general increase in the sale of the better grade
Mrs. Edna F. Meil, manager of the music depart-
of music is very marked and there has also been a ment of the J. G. McCrory Co., finds business
•big sale of instrumental pieces and teaching num- booming.
bers.
Miss Lucy Hetrick. for Kresge's five and ten cent
Among the numbers that are going well is "When stores' department, also reports good business.
You Leave the World Behind." Some business is
being done in the song hits of theatrical produc-
LIZA LEHMANN^GOOD WORK.
tions, which include "Hello, Frisco," from the
Compiles
and Edits Five Volumes of "Useful
"Follies"; "Teach Me to Smile," from "The Girl
Teaching Pieces" for Teachers and Student
Who Smiles," and "Araby" are also going well.
Singers—Some Features of the Series.
C. E. Wilkerson, manager for H. R. Eisenbrandt
Sons, reports business good and said: "I find
Chappell & Co., Ltd., have just published a most
many signs that point to a continuation of good
interesting and valuable series of "Useful Teaching
business, for there is a big demand for works to
Songs" for all voices, compiled and edited by Liza
be used by new scholars. This always is a healthy
Lehmann, the noted artist and composer, who is
sign, for it means a general increase in the sale of
unusually well qualified to take up a work of that
all kinds of music.
character.
"I have come to believe that it might be a good
Each volume contains twelve songs, the first vol-
idea if the sheet music dealers of Baltimore formed
ume being for soprano, the second for mezzo-
a sort of an association. It could be in the form
of a social affair, but the getting together of the
dealers at various times a year would no doubt
have a very good effect in the manner of handling
the business and would give us the opportunity of
exchanging ideas."
Mr. Wilkerson has a unique plan for getting rid
of the over-supply of sheet music Jthat is not exactly
salable. He sends out cards to all of the teachers
of the city announcing the music at ten cents per
copy. In this way a lot of music is disposed of
through the teachers. They purchase it at ten
cents and then sell it to pupils at a little less than
the list prices and reap a very fair profit.
Mr. Wilkerson believes that "Perfect Day," by
Carrie Jacobs-Bond, is destined to have a re-
markable run.
Some new publications have just been issued by
the G. Fred Kranz Music Co. The company in-
Madame Liza Lehmann.
cludes A. Lee Jones' "Baby Mine" and Kathcrine
E. Luke's "Dance of the Flowers." William F. soprano, the third for contralto, the fourth for
Vordemberge, secretary of the firm, says business tenor and the fifth for baritone and bass. The pur-
is much better this year than it was last and expects pose of the "Useful Teaching Songs," as outlined
to see it continue.
by Mme. Lehmann, can be no better explained than
J. A. Grottendick, in charge of the sheet music by h."r own introduction to the series, which reads:
department of the H. D. French Piano Co., is very
"It is said that 'a good singer is born, not made.'
well satisfied with the way business is going. No and one might almost say that 'a good teaching
popular priced music is handled by this firm, it song is born, not made;' in other words, a song
making a specialty of only the high-grade music. unconsciously either possesses the necessary char-
The firm is having a big sale of Carrie Jacobs acteritics, or not, from the moment of its inception
Bond's "Perfect Day" and "A Song of the Hills." in a composer's brain.
Kimball and Crocker's "Sergeant O'Leary" is go- "In compiling the present edition it has been my
ing well.
endeavor to put forward only such songs as embody
For Stewart & Co. Miss Irma Green, manager of the needed qualifications.
. "Some well-known standard numbers were prac-
tically indispensable, but I have gathered together a
W.
C.
POLLA
&
CO.
OLLA
great number that are entirely unhackneyed, the
1547
Broadway
POPULAR
bulk being in English, since it is my firm belief that
New York
PIANO
English singers should give their greatest attention
PIECES
to singing in th^ir own languae and singing it well.
"In some cases I have permitted myself to
VALSE SUBLIME
shorten a symphony or facilitate an accompaniment,
Great Waltz Hit
etc., as teachers generally play for their pupils and
GREAT ACTIVITY IN BALTIMORE.
FLOWERLAND WALTZES
W. C. Powell's 1915 Hit
SPRING TIME REVERIE
BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF ERIN
Big Song Hit
A NIGHT IN JUNE
KING'S BEAUTIFUL SERENADE
A Master Melody—That has won its way to
the hearts of the people purely on merit.
PIANO SOLO, 25c.
Ask your dealer or send direct to publisher.
C. L. BARNHOUSE, Oskaloosa, Iowa, U. S. A.
cannot afford to be too much preoccupied with the
accompaniments.
"All foreign songs have been provided with sing-
able English versions, but it is not suggested that,
during study, these should be used in i ref :rence to
the originals, which have been included for practice
in foreign tongues.
"Lastly, as the ear is much improved by occa-
sional singing without accompaniment, I have
added one unaccompanied song study to each col-
lection."
FILE SCHEDULESJN BANKRUPTCY.
Parke, Daniels & Friedman, Inc.. music publish-
ers, of 146 West Forty-fifth street, this ciay, have
filed bankruptcy schedules showing liabilities of
$9,450 and assets of $2,053, consisting of $1,303
worth of open accounts and copyrights of popular
songs valued at $750. The firm maintained a branch
office in Chicago.
TURNS BUSINESS OVER TO EMPLOYES.
Arthur P. Schmidt, the Prominent Boston Pub-
lisher, Turns Business Over to Former De-
partment Heads, Who Form the Arthur P.
Schmidt Co.— Mr. Schmidt Still Active.
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., January 3.—Arthur P. Schmidt,
the prominent music publisher of this city, has an-
nounced to the trade the fact that he has turned
over his business to Harry B. Crosby, Henry R.
Austin and Miss Florence J. Emery, all of whom
have been in the employ of Mn Schmidt for many
years as heads of departments, and that they have
organized the Arthur P. Schmidt Co. Although
Mr. Schmidt has transferred all his obligations to
the new company, he will, nevertheless, co-operate
and advise with the new regime in the manage-
ment of the business.
ASSETS SOL^AT AUCTION.
The assets of Parke, Daniels & Friedman, Tnc,
the music publishers of New York, who recently
filed a petition in bankruptcy, were sold at auction
on Tuesday of this week by U. S. Auctioneer
Shongood, at the former offices of the company.
The property, which consisted of sheet music,
plates, copyrights, office fixtures, etc., was bid in
by a member of the old company, in bulk, for $500,
A number of local publishers bid on the property.
DIDN'T REQUIRE REST.
Music Teacher—Why don't you pause there?
Don't you see that it's marked rest?
Pupil—Yes, teacher, but I aren't tired.
y->
Sensational Song Hits
MOLLY DEAR IT'S YOU IN AFTER
"™WEDDING*«SUNSHINE»»™R05E"
"SWEETEST GIRL- MONTEREY"
"DANCING THE JELLY ROLL"
"MEMORIES"
"SOONER OR LATER"
"CIRCUS DAY I N D I X I E "
<
ft 3
H
BIG INSTRUMENTAL HITS
GOOD SCOUT-MARCH-TWO 5TEP
"KANGAROO HOP*-FOX TROT
"GERALDINE WALTZES"