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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
72
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
FEIST ANNOUNCES PRICE RAISE.
Advance on All Band and Orchestra Music to
Become Effective on April 1.
The interesting announcement is made by Leo
Feist, Inc., that on and after April 1 there will be
a substantial increase in the prices of the Feist
band and orchestra music, "not because of the
war, but because it is imperative." Under the new
schedule parts for small orchestras of ten parts
and piano will be twenty-five cents instead of
fifteen cents as formerly, and the price for full
orchestras will be increased from twenty-five to
forty cents.
When asked regarding the increase E. F. Bitner,
general manager for Leo Feist, Inc., said : "The
reason for the announcement is that the increase
is imperative. That tells the story. We have
taken the action as an individual house without
consulting with any other publishers or as the
result of any agreement." The new schedule ap-
plies on all orders dated after March 31.
The move of the Feist house will probably re-
sult in similar action on the part of other pub-
lishers who have been considering the matter and
may, in the near future, result in a new schedule
of prices for all classes of music.
THAT PROFESSIONAL COPY AGAIN.
Old Complaint Again Crops Up—Little Oppor-
tunity for Putting End to Graft Under
Present Conditions in the Trade.
According to reports there will soon be another
campaign started against the professional copy
evil. Every once in so often the professional
copy graft reaches a point where the music pub-
lishers are moved to rebel and there is much talk
of demanding proof of the professional standing
or applicants for free copies and their bona fide
requirements before passing out the copies. Things
go along swimmingly for a while and then there
comes another demand for the checking of the
professional copy evil that was already supposed
to have been checked.
The final checking of the professional copy evil
presents so many problems that ultimate success
hardly seems possible. The publishers can, of
course, refuse copies to all non-professionals, but
there will still remain thousands of performers,
of various degrees, who can supply programs and
professional cards and other proofs of their call-
ing. To the average professional manager all is
grist that comes to the mill, every performer who
secures a copy of his song is a possible singer of
the number. When, as frequently happens, the
members of an act go on a collecting tour and
gather a hundred or two professional copies it
NATAN! NATAN!
The Biggest Hit
Write for copy and publicity. — KENDIS, 145 West 45th St., New York
stands to reason that they have no means for
using all the music and that some of it must find
its way into the hands of the layman. The real
elimination of the professional copy evil means
the elimination of the professional copy itself,
which, it would seem, means the practical elimina-
tion of the professional department as it is at
present constituted.
The professional copy evil, it would seem, must
be tolerated to a certain extent, just as is the im-
position of certain large music buyers in the un-
warranted return of unsold music and other
annoying trade features. It is a part of the trade
situation as it exists to-dav.
NEW OPERAJSY VESSELLA.
Weil-Known Bandmaster Responsible for the
Score of "The Road to Mandalay."
Oresta Vessella, the prominent bandmaster and
composer, for fourteen years director of Ves-
sella's Band on the Iron Pier at Atlantic City and
well known to a host of people in that capacity,
has joined the ranks of the operetta composers
including Sousa and Victor Herbert.
Mr. Vessella is the composer of the score of the
opera, "The Road to Mandalay," which will be
presented for the first time at the Park Theatre,
New York, on next Monday evening, February 29.
The opera is in two acts and is declared to con-
tain a number of particularly attractive selections,
among them being "Love That's Never Been
Told," "The Ocean of Dreams," "Imagination,"
"There's a Bright Day Dawning," "Heart of My
Heart," "The Road to Mandalay," "The Firefly"
and "See America First." M. Witmark & Sons
will publish the scores.
REMICK & CO.'S BIG PURCHASE.
Pay What is Declared to be Record Price for
"They Didn't Believe Me."
Jerome H. Remick & Co. have again made the
sheet music world sit up some by paying what is
declared to be a new record price for a song.
The number in question is "They Didn't Believe
Me," one of the hits from "The Girl from Utah,"
and was purchased from T. B. Harms & Francis,
Day & Hunter, who control the score of the piece.
Jerome Kern is the composer.
Not long ago, last fall, to be exact, Remick &
Co. purchased from the Harms Co. the song
"Moll}- Dear, It's You I'm After," which was ad-
vertised extensively and successfully. Remick &
Co. plan an even larger advertising campaign in
connection with the exploitation of "They Didn't
Believe Me."
WELL=KNOWN MUSICIAN DIES.
William Henry Dana, Composer and Teacher,
Passes Away in Seventy-third Year.
(Special to The Review.)
WARREN, O., February 21.—William Henry
Dana, author, composer, teacher of music, died last
week at his home here in his seventy-third year.
He was born in New York, and after being gradu-
ated from the Warren High School and the Willis-
ton Seminary at Easthampton, Mass., studied mu-
sic in Kullak's Conservatory of Music in Berlin
and in the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Mr. Dana was one of the founders of the Music
Teachers' National Association.
T H E SMASHING MUSICAL SUCCESS O F T H E S E A S O N
CHARLES FROHMAN Presents
SYBIL
Now Playing at the LIBERTY THEATRE, N. Y.
Music by Victor Jacobi
Starring
Jos. Cawthorn, Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
THE SONG NUMBERS OF THE PIECE
WHEN CUPID CALLS (The Rat-tat-tat Song) . . 60
LOVE MAY BE A MYSTERY The Waltz Song) . . 60
I Like the Boys
60
Lift Your Eyes to Mine
60
The Colonel of the Crimson Hussars
60
Girls, You Are Such Wonderful Things
60
Following the Drum
60
Letter Duet
60
Good Advice
60
Two Can Play That Game. . . .
60
Selection, Waltz and Vocal Score
and
Cawthorn and Golden's Song
I CAN DANCE WITH EVERYBODY BUT MY WIFE.. .60
(Published by T. B. Harms Co. by arrangement with Chappell & Co.)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd., New York