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THE MUSIC TRADE
68
REVIEW
VSIC
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
RECORD CONVENTION ATTENDANCE
PUBLISHERS AND ROLL MEN MEET
PROGRESS OF NEW DITSON BUILDING
Music Dealers Throughout Country Interested
in June Meetings to Be Held in New York,
Declares W. E. Small, of B. F. Wood Co.
Conference Held in New York Last Week to
Reach Agreement Regarding Status of Word
Rolls—Some of the Points Presented
New Home on Tremont Street, Boston, Ex-
pected to Be Ready for Occupancy Sometime
in July, Despite Unexpected Delays
W. E. Small, of the B. F. Wood Co., who, as
was noted in The Review recently, returned
from an extended trip through the country in
the interests of his house, reports that from
all indications the* coming- convention of the
National Association of Sheet Music Dealers to
be held at the Hotel McAlpin, New York, on
June 11, 13 and 14, will he the best attended in
the history of that organization. The music
retailers still have to face problems, declared
Mr. Small, and a great many of them are ap-
parently waiting to thresh out those problems
with their fellow dealers in convention and,
therefore, will come and help swell the attend-
ance.
As was reported in The Review last week, the
efforts of a certain group of prominent music
publishers to reach a definite understanding re-
garding the use of words on music rolls culmi-
nated in a meeting between all the music pub-
lishers and representatives of the leading music
roll manufacturers at Keen's Chop House on
March 19.
As, has also been reported the publishers sub-
mitted as their idea that the royalty to be
paid on word rolls should be 6 cents foiwsongs
of the popular sort, selling at less than 10 cents
per copy wholesale, and 12 cents per roll for
songs of the standard, or operatic, order whole-
saling at 11 cents or more, the amounts in both
cases to include the 2-cent royalty provided by
law for the use of the music. It was also sug-
gested that for the protection of all hands
stamps be affixed to word rolls to indicate that
a royalty had been paid. These stamps, if
adopted, are to be of uniform design, with some
insignia to indicate the publishing house issuing
it They are to be paid by the music roll manu-
facturers in quantities as desired and from the
publishing houses whose songs they are record-
ing, the system being somewhat similar to that
used in England.
While the music roll men professed to be
somewhat upset upon hearing of the publishers'
terms, a thorough discussion of the matter
served to clear the air materially, and the
matter was finally left in the hands of commit-
tees representing both sides with a full prospect
that a satisfactory settlement would be reached.
The progress of affairs this week will be
found in another section of The Review.
It is easy to appreciate that the publishers
are really earnest in their demands, if they may
be so called. Whatever effect the word roll may
have on the sale of sheet music, its possibilities
as taken from the statements of the music roll
men themselves are bright and promising. With
the words and music both in the hands of pro-
ducers ot- mechanical music, the publisher sees
his only business asset in the hands of others.
-It will be hard indeed if he cannot find means
for protecting himself and his interests under the
new conditions, if he may not turn the situation
to some advantage for himself.
It is to be hoped that any settlement made will
not only prove just to the publisher and copy-
right owner, but will also be made on a basis
that will encourage music roll men to put forth
their efforts under the new conditions. If the
publisher forces an agreement that will prove
prohibitive to music roll cutters, then he may as
well refuse permission for his words altogether.
If he is sufficiently interested in the use of the
words on music rolls to discuss the matter with
music roll men, he must be interested to the
point where he will encourage the use of the
words under a proper and safe limitation which
will give him the necessary protection.
DR. H. S. CRAGIN IN U. S. ARMY
Son of E. S. Cragin, of Ditson & Co., Appointed
Lieutenant in the Medical Service
Dr. Howard S. Cragin, son of Edward S.
Cragin, of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., has been ap-
pointed a lieutenant in the United States Army
medical service and is at present attending the
Army Medical School at Washington, D. C , pre-
paratory to taking the field. Dr. Cragin gradu-
ated from Amherst College in 1910, and four
years later from the Harvard Medical School.
His home is in Brooklyn, N. Y.
FERRATA SONGS IN CONCERT
A concert was given in the John Wanamaker
Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon of this week
by Lester Donohue, the celebrated pianist, who
featured the works of Chevalier Giuseppi Fer-
rata, which need no introduction to music lovers.
The numbers are all published by Hinds, Hay-
den & Eldredge, Inc., who had the pleasure of
contributing so many successful numbers at the
concert in the same aUi^Brium on .^February 7.
AL PIANTADOSPS NEW SONG
Al I'iantadosi & Co., Inc., will shortly release,
a new novelty song entitled "f Want Everybody
to Love You." The number is rrom the pen of
Al I'iantadosi himself, who says it is one of
th« most original novelty songs produced in
some time.
TWO CONCERT BALLAD SUCCESSES
"WHEN SHADOWS
FALL
"DARLIN"'
At featured in the Opera "Martha," by
Elaine DeSellem, leading contralto with
the Botton English Opera Co., now en tour
Brilliant
Encore
Song
15 CENTS FOR A LIMITED TIME
CHICAGO
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
8VNOPSIS
Ilugle Call Fife and Drum
Corps, I nion Army playing
Vmikee Doodle.
Fife and
Drum
Corps,
Confederate
Army, Dixie.
Marching to
• tattle. Massing Artillery on
(he Heights. Heavy Cannon-
ading.
Picket t's
Heroic
Charge. Clashing of Bayonets
and (inns.
liattle Raging
Furiously. I'icltett Orders Ke-
treut from (lie Trap of Death.
Etc., Kte., Kte.
BOSTON, MASS., March 26.—Although a strike and
difficulties in securing material, due to railroad
congestion, have served to delay the work on the
new home of the Oliver Ditson Co., on Tremont
street, at the time first fixed for the completion
of the structure, it is believed by the company's
officials that the new home will be ready for
occupancy before the middle of July, and prepa-
rations are already under way looking towards
a removal about that time. The framework
of the building is practically completed, and the
white marble front is now being put in place.
The company has given up the idea of renting
out the floors not used in their business as
studios or offices, and will devote them to other
purposes.
A. J. STASNY HOMEWARD BOUND
Head of A. J. Stasny Music Co. on Final Stretch
of Transcontinental Trip
A. J. Stasny, of the A. J. Stasny Music Co.,
recently arrived in Chicago after a two months'
trip to the Pacific Coast. After several days
which he will spend at the Pittsburgh and Phila-
delphia offices of the company he will return to
New York.
It is announced by the Stasny Co. that Eddie
Magill, who has been connected with the San
Francisco staffs of some of the largest pub-
lishers in the country, has been appointed Pacific
Coast representative of the A. J. Stasny Music
Co. Announcement of the location of the office
will be made shortly.
'JEROME H.REMICK&OX'S
^Sensational S o n ^ Hits^
"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
Tiddle-de-Wlnks—Fox-Trot
Whispering Hearts—Waltz
JEROME H. REMICK & CO.
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