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THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
PUBLISHERS DISCUSS THE WORD ROLL BARS USE OF FLAG ON TITLE PAGES TO EXHIBIT AT COMING CONVENTION
At Meeting Last Week Prominent Publishers
Agreed on a Royalty of 6 Cents for Popular
Numbers and 12 Cents for Operatic Numbers
—To Meet With Music Roll Men This Week
The climax of the series of informal meetings
of the New York music publishers who have
been considering- the word roll question came
immediately after the usual weekly luncheon of
the Greater New York Music Publishers' and
Dealers' Association, held Wednesday, March 7,
at Keen's Chop House, 70 West Thirty-sixth
street. Invitations had been previously sent to
the publishers interested in the question, and
an unusually large attendance resulted.
The most important question considered was
the position the publishers should take in re-
gard to royalties on the word rolls. At the
opening of the meeting' the amount which should
be received -.was discussed, and it was unani-
mously agreed that the royalty on. popular num-
bers where the words are used should be 6
cents, and on standard and operatic numbers
it should be 12 cents a roll, the publishers to be
the judges of stan-Hatd and popular numbers.
^The method of collecting the royalties was not
so quickly settled. When the proposition of
having the publishing houses issue stamps to be
bought by the music roll manufacturers and
placed upon every roll was discussed, temporary
disapproval was registered by a number of pub-
lishers. Discussion, of the question in all its
phases then followed with the protesting pub-
lishers gradually being convinced that the idea
was the best one suggested, and that it
v/as wholly feasible and at the same time ef-
ficient.
At the usual weekly luncheon held on Wed-
nesday of this week the publishers who had ar-
rived at the above decision met a number of
music roll manufacturers for the purpose, if
possible, of closing an agreement embodying
the above idea, the results of which will be found
in another part of this paper.
INCORPORATED IN NEW YORK
The Hawaiian Institute of Music, New York,
have been incorporated with a capital stock of
$1,000, to engage in the general publishing busi-
ness. The incorporators who do not claim to be
natives of Hawaii, are: Irving Greenberg, L. J.
Rosenbaum and Diana Rosenbaum.
TWO CONCERT BALLAD SUCCESSES
"WHEN SHADOWS
FALL
"DARLIN"'
At featured in the Opera "Martlii," by
Elaine DeSellem, leading contralto with
the Boston English Opera Co., now en tour
Brilliant
Encore
Song
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SYNOPSIS
Bugle Call Fife and Drum
Corps, Union Army playing
Yankee Poodle.
rife and
Drum
Corp*,
Confederate
Army, Dixie. Marching to
Buttle. Massing Artillery on
the Heights. Heavy Cannon-
ading.'
Pickett'n
Heroic
Charge. Clashing of Bayonets
and (inns.
Battle Raging
Furiously. IMckett Orders Re-
treat from the Trap of Death.
Ete., Etc., Etc.
Measure Passed by Congress to Cover District
of Columbia Will Probably Result in Similar
Action in Many States—Publishers Interested
Music publishers generally are much inter-
ested in the act recently passed by Congress and
which prohibits the use of the United States flag
upon . any article of merchandise, which of
course includes sheet music, in the District of
Columbia, owing to the fact that it is reported
a similar measure will probably be enacted in
forty-two states before very long. Many music
publishers who arc using title pages showing the
national flag are recalling the old numbers and
substituting other title pages as a matter of pre-
caution. The act reads as follows :
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem-
bled, That hereafter any person who, within the District
of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display,
shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark,
picture, design, drawing or any adv-ertisernent of any nature
upon any flag, standard, colors or ensign of the United
States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed
to public view any such flag, standard, colors or ensign
upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise
placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed or
annexed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design or drawing,
or aiij*.advertisement of any nature; or who, within the
District"of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for
sale or to public view or give away or have in possession
for sale or to be given away or for use for any purpose,
any article or substance being an article of merchandise,
or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for car-
rying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have
been printed, painted, attached or otherwise placed a repre-
sentation of any such flag, standard, colors or ensign, to
advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish
the article or substance on which so placed; or who, within
the District of Columbia, shall publicly mutilate, deface,
defile or defy, trample upon or cast contempt, either by
word or act, upon any such flag, standard, colors or ensign,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be pun-
ished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for
not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the
court. The words "flag, standard, colors, or ensign," as
used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign
or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or
parts of either, made of any substance or represented on
any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either
of said flag, standard, colors or ensign, of the United
States of America or a picture or a representation of either,
upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the
stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or
parts of either, by which the average person seeing the
same without deliberation may believe the same to represent
the flag, colors, standard or ensign of the United States of
America. Approved, February 8, 1917.
WILL MAINTAIN PRICES
Department Stores to Adhere to Scale of Prices
on Sheet Music
One of the best pieces of news which the
music dealers of Greater New York have re-
ceived in some time is the statement from the
officers of their local association that the sheet
music sections of the large department stores
will adhere in the future to the prices agreed
on by dealers and publishers on July 1 last.
This action on the part of the department
stores not only shows what can be done by
co-operation, but it also shows that there is no
necessity for music publishers to think their
hands are tied in the matter of setting prices,
nor do publishers have to allow the distributors
to dictate the price they shall receive for their
publications, but these prices can be set by
agreement, and by organization the sheet music
business can be placed on a paying basis.
On Thursday night of this week a meeting
was held by the Music Dealers' Association of
New York, a report of which will appear in
next week's Review.
Music Publishers to Take Active Interest in An-
nual Convention of American Guild of Mando-
linists, Banjoists and Guitarists
BOSTON, MASS., March 12.—One of the inter-
esting features of the convention of the Ameri-
can Guild of Mandolinists, Banjoists and Guitar-
ists, to be held in this city on April 29 and the
three succeeding days will be the display of
music by the various publishers who are produc-
ing publications for the banjo, mandolin, guitar
and kindred instruments.
In this connection it is asserted by an officer
of the Guild that a remarkably large proportion
of the trade not on the "inside" would be sur-
prised to know the extent of this branch of the
music publishing industry to-day. For, with the
standardized mandolin orchestra, an accomplish-
ment of credit to this Guild, and the additional
demands created by the popularity of the
Hawaiian instruments and those of the banjo
family, there is a rapidly increasing call for
music arranged for the lighter instruments.
Among the music publishers noted on the list
of trade members are: Carl Fischer, New York;
Walter Jacobs, Boston, Mass.; Jerome H. Rem-
ick & Co., New York; Vandersloot Co., Williams-
port, Pa.; Messina Music Co., New York; J.
Rowies, Philadelphia, Pa.; Geo. Stannard, Tren-
ton, N. J.; Wm. C. Stahl, Milwaukee, Wis.; Cres-
sey & Allen, Portland, Me.
NEW BRANCH OFJVINN SCHOOL
The Winn School of Popular Music, with
headquarters at 125 West 125th street, New
York, has opened a branch in San Jose, Cal.,
under the direction of Andrea J. Christian. At
the present time the school maintains nearly
200 branches in various sections of the country.
'JEROME H.REMICK&CO.S'
^Sensational
"I'm Glad You're Sorry"
"I Brought Red Roses In
December to You"
"Whose Pretty Baby Are You Now"
"If You Ever Get Lonely"
"She's Dixie All the Time"
"Where the Black Eyed Susans
Grow"
"Down Honolulu Way"
"Just a Word of Sympathy"
'Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose"
'How's Every Little Thing In Dixie"
'There's Egypt In Your Dreamy
Eyes"
"Because You're Irish"
INSTRUMENTAL HITS
Pozzo—Fox-Trot
Tiddlc-dc-Winks—Fox-Trot
Whispering Hearts—Waltz
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THE
Battle of Gettysburg
Positively the Greatest March Ever Written. See Synopsis
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MUSIC DEALERS
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