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APRIL 13, 1918
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
57
AMERICAN COMPOSERS' FESTIVAL
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THE ETUDE
April Issue
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ROYALTY QUESTION BEFORE COURTS
The Death of Author of "Keep the Home Fires
Burning" Raises Perplexing Question Regard-
ing the Disposition of Her Estate
Event at Wanamaker Auditorium
Proves a Decided Success
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The second all-American Composers' Fes-
tival held at the John Wanamaker Auditorium
closed on Tuesday of this week. The programs
of the concerts were divided among a number
of publishing houses, each one entering having
a day in which their composers and publica-
tions were featured. The attendance was good
The Big Southern Hit from
throughout the whole period, and the success
New Orleans
and the reception of the numbers themselves
speak well for the work of our American artists.
Now published by " F e i s t "
On Wednesday of last week the Oliver Dit-
—you know what that means
son Co. publications were heard together with
a list of concert singers of note. Among the
Ditson numbers were the works of C. W. Cad-
man, W. A. Fisher, Arthur Bergh, C. F. Manney
and others.
On Saturday the publications of Huntzinger
& Dilworth were the feature and the program
included compositions of Mary Helen Brown,
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Fay Foster, Harry Gilbert, Frank Harling,
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Florence T. Maley, Win. Strickland, Geoffrey
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O'Hara and John Prindle Scott.
The closing day the publications of M. Wit-
LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
mark & Sons were programmed and the works
of such composers as Ernest R. Ball, Fred W.
Vanderpool, David Guion, Victor Herbert and
a number of others were heard.
MAKE CHANGE IN BREHM BROS.
Other publishing houses represented were J.
Fischer & Bro., Arthur P. Schmidt, Carl Fischer, Frank Brehm Purchases Catalog and Mail Or-
John Church Co. and G. Schirmer, Inc.
der Business of Music Publishers in Erie, Pa.
"I'm Sorry
I Made You Cry"
FINDS MUCH ACTIVITY IN CHICAGO
KRIK, PA., April 8.—Frank Brehm, the junior
member of BreJim Bros., the prominent music
Herbert Avery, general manager of Al Pian- publishers, jobbers and dealers of this city, has
Just who will receive present and future roy- tadosi, Inc., returned late last week from a trip purchased the catalog and mail order business
alties from the sale of "Keep the Home Fires to Chicago. While visiting in the Windy City of the concern and has disposed of his inter-
Burning" is a question that will be decided by Mr. Avery made his headquarters in the Chi- ests in the local retail store to the remaining
the courts in England. Mrs. Lena Gilbert Ford, cago offices of the company, which he found members of the firm. Mr. Brehm will move the
who formerly lived in Elmira, N. Y., wrote the were very busy in both the sales and profes- mail order business to Los Angeles, Cal., and
lyrics of the song. Both Mrs. Ford and her sional departments.
expects to be established there early in the fall.
son were killed when the house in which they
Brehm Bros, have conducted a mail order
were living in London was destroyed by a Ger-
LIEUT. RICE SINGING FEIST SONG
music business for the past forty-eight years,
man bomb in a recent air raid. If it is deter-
and have built up an excellent reputation along
mined by the courts that Mrs. Ford died first,
Lieutenant Gitz Rice has added another song that line. Frank Brehm has been manager of
her estate will pass to her son and he, being to his war play "Getting Together," now tour- the department for the past ten years. The
dead, to his relatives. If, however, the son died ing the country. The new song is entitled local business will be continued as the Brehm
first, the estate will go to an entirely different "Keep Your Head Down, Fritzi Boy," which Music Co.
family.
was originally just a chorus sung in the
trenches over there, but which is now a com-
RAGGED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
NEW BALLAD BY ERNEST R. BALL plete song published by Leo Feist, Inc.
A trio of musicians in a large motion picture
M. Witmark & Sons have recently issued a
theatre in Toledo was recently arrested for
new ballad by Ernest R. Ball with words by
playing the "Star Spangled Banner" in ragtime.
J. Keirn Brennan, entitled "My Sunshine Jane."
Investigation proved that two of the players
The number has a delightful melody and much
were Germans and the other an Austrian.
is expected of it.
The Biggest Musical Comedy
Hit in New York
McKinley's New Song Success
THE SONG THAT TOUCHES EVERY HEART
I ' m A l w a y s C h a s i n g Rainbows
T y p i c a l T o p i c a l Tunes
A Kiss For C i n d e r e l l a
I T h i n k Y o u ' r e A b s o l u t e l y Wonderful
It's a Long Way to Tiffany's
Wherever Them's Music and Beautiful Girls
W e W i l l L i v e F o r Love a n d Love A l o n e
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