Music Trade Review

Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 6

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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4,000,000!
Copies of
"Century Edition"
were sold in 1916!
Best music procurable — plus national
advertising—plus dealers' co-operation—
were three great factors that made
"Century's" year a record breaker!
It's a mighty interesting proposition.
Are you getting your share ?
Century Music Pub. Co.
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
BIG CAMPAIGN FOR CENTURY EDITION
Advertisements Each Month in Magazines Hav-
ing Total Circulation of Over 8,000,000 to
Begin With the October Issues
n „ •..:
The Century Music Publishing Co. will shortly
make some important and interesting announce-
ments regarding their fall and winter exploita-
tion campaign in the interests of the Century
Edition and which will include a number of new
publicity and business building features.
In line with their regular advertising policy
the Century Co. will begin their advertising cam-
paign in the magazines of national circulation
with their October numbers which will appear
about the middle of September. Quarter-page
advertisements will be inserted monthly for six
months in nine publications having an aggregate
monthly circulation or 8,125,000, a gross cir-
culation for the six months of nearly 50,000,000.
Century Edition dealers should be quick to
realize what these tremendous figures mean to
them from a direct business standpoint.
The Century Music Publishing Co. will also
shortly announce a new business building con-
test for dealers, in which Liberty Bonds will
figure prominently as prizes. The details of
the contest will be made public in a very few
weeks.
THAT Maurice Richmond, of the Enterprise
Music Co., returned from a nice, cool, three
weeks' auto trip last week just in time to en-
joy the terrific heat wave hereabouts.
THAT one publisher remarked that some of
the song writers caught in the draft will never
be able to claim exemption for weak nerves.
THAT.Teddy Morse has gone and pulled that
old bird-cage story. Oh, Teddy!
THAT a thirty-mile trip in a sightseeing car
over, country roads is fine when the roads are
good, when the roads are not, Oh, boy!
THAT in "Kiss Me Pretty" and "Please Don't
Go," the A. J. Stasny Music Co. has a pair
of numbers that should mean much to the pro-
ductive policy of their catalog.
THAT next to the Mayor, Howard Johnson,
the rising young song writer hereabouts, ap-
pears to be the most prominent citizen of Tor-
rington, Conn., which town he selected for his
birthplace.
THAT in view of the number of new musical
productions announced for next season, the
specialists in interpolation may expect some
busy times.
THAT the headline in a contemporary reads:
"Dolly's Dance to Stern Tunes." Serious music,
we presume.
THAT in appealing for reading matter for the
soldiers the gatherers state they want current
literature and not old almanacs from the garret.
How about the old dust covered war songs now
being pulled from the shelves?
THAT he stood at Times Square forsaken and
alone. He was the only popular song writer
who has not y, et written at least one patriotic
number.
"GOOD=BYE, BOYJTJTO BE PRODUCED
"Good-bye, Boys," the new musical play, with
book and lyrics by Junie McCree, and music
by Edward Stembler, will shortly be placed in
rehearsal for production early in the fall. The
piece is an adaptation of the farce, "Billy's
Tombstone." Jos. W. Stern & Co. will publish
the music.
A PATRIOTIC HYMN THAT WILL LAST
The American National Hymn
WITH PRELUDE
Word* by Rev. S. E. SMITH
Mu.ic by GEO. L. WEITZ
GEO. L. VVEITZ, 753 6th A v e . , N e w York
IsThis Book inYourWindow?
The most complete collection of National and
Patriotic Songs ever published—includes the
National Song; of every Nation in the world
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lllll LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
TO BRING SUITS AGAINST THEATRE
Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers
to Take Action Against Motion Picture
Houses, Following Recent Refusal of the
Same—One Suit Already Started
The refusal of the members of the Exhibitors'
League of America to meet the demands of the
Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers
that they pay a fee of 10 cents per seat per year
for the performing rights of music controlled
by the society members, will, it is promised, re-
sult in the bringing of a hundred or more suits
against individual theatre owners by Nathan
Burkan, attorney for the society. One suit,
that of the Broadway Music Corp., against the
Fulton Auditorium Co., which operates the
Fulton Auditorium in Brooklyn, N. Y., has al-
ready been instituted in the United States Dis-
trict Court. The basis of the suit is that the
pianos for the theatre played "Down Where the
Swanee River Flows" without permission. An
injunction, $3,000 damages and a $10 penalty
for each performance are asked for in the com-
plaint.
THE ONE BIG PATRIOTIC HIT
After raising their prices 33j^%, music printers
in Great Britain threaten another increase.
Another Hit!
"Over There"
By Geo. M. Cohan
"If I Catch the Guy Who Wrote
Poor Butterfly"
Get In a t t h i s p r i c e .
7c p e r c o p y
HAVE YOU GOT THESE?
"Sometime"
18c per copy
"M-I-s-s-I-s-s-i-p-p-i"
18c per copy
"There's Only One Little Girl."
By Geo. M. Cohan
7c p e r c o p y
Wm. Jerome Publishing Corporation
Strand Theatre Building,
NEW YORK CITY
Write for Special Offer to Dealers
HINDS, HAYDEN&ELDREDGE, he.
11 Union Square West
New York City
M.WITMARK&SONSS
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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
WOOLWORTH STORE FEATURES FEIST PATRIOTIC NUMBER
Coming as it did just about the time prepara- right and won quick recognition. The song
tions were being made to send the first of the has been strongly featured by dealers throughout
the country in their
window displays and
the accompanying illus-
tration shows a particu-
larly striking window
arrangement of one of
the Woolworth stores
in Chicago. As it is
seen much of the win-
dow space was given up
to title p a g e s of
"Good-bye Broadway,
Hello France."
The feature of t h e
display, however, were
the figures representing
General Pershing, com-
manding the American
expeditionary f o r c e ,
and Marshal Joffre, of
France, e x t e n d i n g
hands across the sea,
w h i l e in the back-
ground appears a re-
production in minia-
ture of an army trans-
port.
The attention given
t h e window had an
Woolworth Window Display of "Good-bye Broadway, Hello France"
excellent effect in in-
American troops to France, "Good-bye Broad- creasing the volume of sales for the song at that
way, Hello France," the new Leo Feist success, particular store. "Good-bye Broadway, Hello
appeared to strike the popular fancy just about France" has a swinging melody that appeals.
NEW BOY SCOUT NUMBER
A PEPPYJ-OX TROT
Harry Carroll, known as one of the best
composers of popular music at the present day,
and Stanley Murphy, who lias written several
very successful numbers, have combined their
forces and written a new song dedicated to
the Boy Scouts of America, entitled "Be a Good
Scout." This number, which is published by
J. H. Remick & Co., has had a very good sale
since its recent release.
Chas. K. Harris will shortly issue a new song
which is announced as the successor to "Ball-
in' the Jack."
The number is entitled
"Scratchin' the Gravel," and is full of "pep" from
start to finish, and according to those who
should know, makes one of the best fox trots
of the season. The number is by Jack Yellen,
Chas. Pearce and Perry Bradford.
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
Winn's Practical Method of
Popular Music
and Ragtime Piano Playing
Book No. 1
Book No. 2
Standard Numbers that'Sell on Sight at
"50% Profit for the Dealer"
A Trial Order From Your Nearest Jobber
Will Convince You
WINN SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC
T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter
62 West 45th Street
NEW YORK
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
WALTER JACOBS
8 Bosworth S t . ,
PubUsher
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BOSTON, MASS.
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music
Dealers
Correspondence Solicited
Music Engraven and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
311 West 4 3 d Street
New York City
We Publljh an Excellent Line of Teaching Mu«lc
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U«7-I|*» BROADWAY, NEW YORK
CHICAGO, III., August 2.—The McKinley Music
Co. has just brought out a new number that
gives every appearance of being a wonderful
success. It is the work of Roger Graham and
Maceo Pinkard. It is called "I'm a Real Kind
Mamma Lookin' for a Lovin' Man," and is on
the style of "I Ain't Got Nobody," which was
popularized by Sophie Tucker and with which
she made such a tremendous uproar. Sophie
is very enthusiastic over the new number, and
is already using it at the Islesworth Hotel at
Atlantic City. In a recent telegram to the Mc-
Kinley Co. she said, "Kind Mamma" is a big
success and is better than "I Ain't Got Nobody."
Some great plans are on the fire for putting it
over in good shape and already it is being heard
around Chicago's cabarets with considerable
frequency.
Other McKinley songs that are selling big at
the present time are "Stepping on the Puppy's
Tail," a successor to "Walkin' the Dog" and
"Saxophone Sam," a great number that is be-
ing featured by the six Brown Brothers, whose
saxophone sextet was the hit of the musical
comedy "Chin-Chin."
The McKinley Co. is getting lots of its num-
bers in record lists, "I Ain't Got Nobody" be-
ing an Victor, Columbia, Emerson and Little
Wonder records, with the demand* for it in-
creasing weekly. "Darlin' " and "My Fox-Trot
Girl" are Victor August issues and are having
a big sale. "When Shadows Fall," "The Hour
of Memory" and "That Cabaret in Honolulu
Town" are others that are doing well.
The McKinley Co. has fifty new McKinley 10-
cent numbers that will be ready September 1
for its big list of agents, and as the company
is looking very optimistically to the coming
fall, big plans are being made accordingly.
Two Wonderful Ballads
"A TEAR, AKISS, A SMILE"
"THAT'S WHY MY
HEART IS CALLING YOU"
Music b y OTTO MOTZAN
KARCZAG PUB. CO., Inc.
62-64 W. 45th St., 7th Floor, New York
America's Biggest Hit
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
"Break the News
To Mother"
(Till the Boys Come Home)
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
The Song of the Moment
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
NEW YORK
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
"I'm a Real Kind Mamma" Making a Sensation
—Extensive Plans for Fall Being Made
Established 1900
155 West 125th Street, New York
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
NEW McKlNLEY NUMBER GOING BIG
ORDER
Red. White, Bluet
Mister Buzz Saw
Alpine Sunset, Valse Romantlque
Valse Egyptian
The Jubllator March
Visions of Madrid, Spanish Serenade
The Isle of Palms
A Night In June, Serenade
F R O M A N Y J O B B E R OR
C. L B A R N H 0 U S E , O 8 K A £ T 8 ^ I A
For ninety days, only
7c
This song has never sold under
12 l Ac per copy. The same song that
created a furore during the Spanish-
American war and repeating the
same today.
Dealers: Here's your chance to
get in on the ground floor. Don't be
afraid to order. The song sells at
sight.
PUBLISHED BY
GHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th St.,
New York City

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