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THE
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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JANUARY 5, 1918
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
STATUS OF GERMAN COPYRIGHT
POPULARIZINGJ>OPULAR MUSIC
NEW SATURDAYJ-VENING POST AD
U. S. Custodian of Alien Property Holds That
It No Longer Affords Protection
Winn Method of Ragtime Piano Playing En-
joying Remarkable Demand Throughout the
Country—Many Schools Teaching the Method
Leo Feist, Inc., to Feature "Over There" and
Other Popular Numbers in Full-Page An-
nouncement in the Issue of January 19
The
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headed
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Of news to the sheet music, talking machine
record and player-piano roll dealers is the an-
nouncement by Leo Feist, Inc., the well-known
music publishers, that a full-page advertisement
featuring three songs from their catalog will
appear in the Saturday Evening Post of Jan-
uary 19, on sale on January 17. The songs
chosen for this publicity are Geo. M. Cohan's
"Over There," for which the house of Feist
paid the author $25,000, "Strutter's Ball,'' an-
other number which Leo Feist, Inc., purchased
from Will Rossitor at a very high figure, and
"The Land of Wedding Bells," a new song by
Howard Johnson and Geo. W. Meyer, the writer
of "Me and My Gal." All the current numbers
in the Feist catalog will be mentioned in the
ad, as usual.
This full-page advertisement is probably the
forerunner of a series of monthly announce-
ments. During the year just past Leo Feist,
Inc., carried a quarter of a page announcement
in the Saturday Evening Tost almost every
month, and during the latter part of the year
they raised the size of their announcements to
a full page in several issues.
The United States Custodian of Alien Prop-
erty, A. Mitchell Palmer, has ruled that Ger-
man plays copyrighted under the international
treaty no longer have the protection of the
copyright act.
This ruling permits the reprinting of copy-
righted German works by Americans in this
country by the payment of a fee. This fee will
he kept by the collector until the termination of
the war, when its disposition will be decided
upon either through a new treaty or by the
Government officials.
The ruling is held to apply to copyrighted
musical compositions as well as to plays and
is therefore of interest to the composers and
publishers.
ENTER LOCAL PUBLISHING FIELD
Harry Newman and Walter Douglas Form a
New Company to Handle Popular Prints
Two traveling representatives for music pub-
lishers, Harry Newman, formerly with Water-
son, Berlin & Snyder, and Walter Douglas, for-
merly with the Broadway Music Corp., have felt
the ambition to become publishers on their own
account, and have formed a new company for
that purpose. They will have associated with
them Dan Winkler, another well-known music
salesman, who will act as sales manager. The
new concern will specialize on popular prints.
HIT of the ANNA HELD
Show
"FOLLOW ME
E DOODLE LEARNS
RARLEZ YOUS FRANCA1S
rapid advancement made by the Winn
of Popular Music, of New York City,
by Edward R. Winn, has served to show
is possible to overcome prejudices and
achieve
material
success if the right
policies a r e fol-
lowed out. T h e
idea of originating,
publishing and dis-
tributing a method
for the teaching of
popular music and
r a g t i m e playing
was the conception
of E d w a r d R.
Winn, and to his
persistent effort in
marketing his com-
pilation along this
line must go the
credit for the easy
access which t h e
piano playing pub-
lic enjoys to suit-
able
instruction
material for t h i s
Edward R. Winn
type of music. The
prejudice which originally existed among teach-
ers against the teaching of popular music
has almost entirely been overcome, and pro-
gressive teachers everywhere are recognizing the
fact that popular music has a place, and an im-
portant one, in the musical life of the nation.
There are in operation throughout the country
at the present time a great number of schools
and studios teaching the Winn method, and the
largest and most representative music houses
throughout the country circulate the Winn
books in large quantities.
W'hile the greatest selling field for the Winn
method is among piano pupils, there is also much
of interest in the method for the advanced and
professional pianist, and the Winn School of
Popular Music is to-day enjoying a success
commensurate with the quality of the valuable
instruction it offers.
NEW PATRIOTIC MARCH
Gorbert Bros., New Castle, Ind., have just
published a new war song with words and music
by Z. F. Gorbert and entitled "When the Allies
Parade the Streets of Berlin." The song is in
march time, and the music is really good. The
title page shows the Kaiser saluting Uncle Sam.
1918
WHEN YOU THINK OF
SUCCESS
REMEMBER THE
ORDER TODAY
7c. Per Copy
A.J.STASNYMUSICCO.
56 WEST 45th STREET. NEW YORK
WINN METHOD
of Popular Music and
Ragtime Piano Playing
MEYER COHEN QUITS VON TILZER CO.
Severed His Connection With That Concern as
Business Manager Last Week
Meyer Gohen, who for over a year has been
business manager of the Harry Von Tilzer
Music Publishing Co., also holding an interest in
that company, severed his connection with the
Von Tilzer house last week, and his future
plans have not yet been announced. Mr. Cohen
has been connected with the popular music field
for over twenty-five years, and during much
of that time was connected with Chas. K. Har-
ris.
In his early days he was prominent as a
baritone and traveled throughout the country
for various companies. He leaves the Harry
Von Tilzer Co. with the friendliest feeling on
both sides.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions
of any kind.
It will be a long, long
time before you hear
another ballad like
"Forever i
Is A
Long, Long
Time"
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