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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
M A Y 25, 1918
AN IMPORTANT COURT DECISION
AIDS PHILADELPHIA'S WAR CHEST
URGE DEALERS TO ORDER EARLY
High Court of Justice in England Upholds
Rights of Performing Right Society, Ltd., in
an Interesting Case Recently
Remick & Co. Song Being Featured in Big Drive
for War Fund in That City
Delays in. Express Shipments May Serve to Oc-
casion Serious Loss Unless the Retailer
Watches His Stock Very Carefully
Members of, ami those interested in, the
American Society of Authors, Composers and
Publishers should be interested in the decision
handed down by the High Court of Justice in
London in the case of the Performing Right
Society, Ltd., versus Thompson. The society
sued to recover damages and obtain an injunc-
tion against Thompson, owner of a motion pic-
ture theatre, for permitting his pianist to play
"Keep the Home Fires Burning" and "If Yon
Were the Only Girl in the World," both copy-
righted numbers. The defendant claimed that
he had instructed his pianist not to play any
popular music, but the court held that the de-
fendant was responsible for the fact that his
pianist did play such music.
Regarding the rights of the society to collect
damages, and secure an injunction, the court
said: "I am quite satisfied that this is a so-
ciety which has a perfectly genuine and legiti-
mate object which is carried out by perfectly
genuine and legitimate methods, and it is a
society which appears to me to perform a very
useful function for the protection of . . . ar-
tistic gentlemen, musical composers, and for se-
curing to them the full reward for their com-
positions. / . . As to the legality of the so-
ciety and its object and methods I am perfect-
ly satisfied."
Again in the decision the court says: "I cer-
tainly think that it is satisfactory to find that
this society, which after all in the present case,
is merely engaged in securing the fruits of their
labors to the musical composers, has a legal ob-
ject and cannot be defeated in what one can-
not help feeling is a position of public interest."
The court assessed the sum of four pounds
damages against the defendant, issued an in-
junction against him and ordered that he pay
the costs of the action.
CHAS. K. HARRIS ACCEPTS NEW SONG
Chas. K. Harris has just accepted for publi-
cation a new song entitled "He's My Boy."
The number is an Irish song of the comedy type
and has much promise. Chas. K. Harris will
immediately place it in the repertoire of a num-
ber of high-class vaudeville singers who are
anxious to sing it.
It is rumored that the music publishers have
decided to give a royalty to the originator of
the idea of abolishing the insert in popular mu-
sic. Over $100,000 was saved by the various pub-
lishers during the past year, so there will be a
nice little nest egg for someone.
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
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FuMiihcr
BOSTON, MASS.
"See Dixie First"
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Amtidpate tnd supply Every Requirement «f
Dcalore
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
The city of Philadelphia throughout this
week and part of next is obtaining funds for
a war chest. This is a fund which will carry
the city's quota through each year for the Red
Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other patriotic purposes,
and does away with having a series of campaigns
for obtaining such funds.
Incidentally they
have adopted the J. H. Remick & Co.'s song,
"Put Your Hands in Your Pockets and Give,
Give, Give" as the official song of the drive. The
Remick Philadelphia staff will assist in the drive
in many ways. As a number of cities have sig-
nified it as their intention of carrying on similar
campaigns for the same purpose the song will
in all probability be taken up as the official
song in many cases.
HAVE LIBERTY LOAN HONOR FLAG
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., the well-
known publishers of music and music books,
have a ten-star honor flag flying in their offices
due to the fact that every one in the organization
subscribed to the Third Liberty Loan.
W. H. GOODWIN IN AVIATION CORPS
W. H. Goodwin, formerly advertising manager
of Gilbert & Friedland, Inc., and long con'nected
with other publishing houses, joined the United
States Aviation Corps late last week.
"MOST POPULAR_SERIES" GOES UP
It has been announced by Hinds, Hayden &
Eldredge, Inc., that they will shortly raise the
price of the "Most Popular Series" of music
books 5 cents. Notices to the trade are now
being prepared.
Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland returned
on Monday of this week after a number of
weeks' vaudeville tour in the Middle West.
Two Sensational English
Ballad Successes
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
T. B. Harms & Francis, Day A Hunter
62 West 45th Street
NEW YORK
The Song of the Moment
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
('Till the Boys Come Home)
*
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
311 West 4 3 d Street
New York City
(Cljurci). ^3axson attb Companp
Some Excellent and Attractive Features Among
New Issues by That House
Among the new issues published by Boosey
& Co. is a waltz from the pen of Vernon Eville,
who in the past has given more than one waltz
that we can still remember. This new waltz is
called "Pleading," and is" published in one of
the most attractive title pages given to a high-
class number in some time. Another of the
new issues is a pleasant little song entitled "The
Little Brown Owl," a number with appealing
light music, the lyrics of which tell the love
story of a pair of owls. It carries an original
idea and should be a welcome addition to the
Boosey catalog. Other numbers are "O, Love
You, I Love You," words by Robert Loveman,
and music by Gustave Ferrari; "Land of My
Heart," words by P. J. Reilly, music by Vernon
Eville; "Incense," words by Edward Lockton,
music by T. Wilkinson Stephenson; "Fairy
Shoon," words by Fre'd E. Weatherly, music by
A. Herbert Brewer; "Loss" and "Within Your
Eyes," two short songs published under one
title page, the words of which are by Jessie B.
Rittenhouse, and the music by David W. Guion;
the "Harbour of Dreams," words by William F.
Kirk, music by Gustave Ferrari, and "A Gift
From Heaven," the poem of which is by Harriet
Prescott Spofford, and the music by R. O.
Heyne.
Alfred G. Robyn is now working on a musical
version of the comedy success of some years
ago, "Brown of Harvard," to be presented next
season.
TWO BIG SUCCESSES
"SEND ME A CURL"
"CARRY ON"
By GEOFFREY O'HARA
High Voice
The camp $ong favorite
By N. F. WOODBURY
Low Voice
Destined to be the moit popular of war tong*
HUNTZINGER & DILWORTH
NEW YORK
159 West 57th Street
NEW YORK
T W O CONCERT BALLAD SUCCESSES
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
Masic Engraver* and Printers
BOOSEY & CO. NEW PUBLICATIONS
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
ROBERT TELLER SONS & D0RNER
Music publishers in the East are as a unit in
urging their dealers wherever possible to place
orders well in advance of the time when the
music is absolutely needed, where such a plan
is feasible, as in the case of library and standard
editions. It has taken from five to ten times
longer for express shipments to reach their des-
tination than ever before. This is particularly
the case of music going into Canada and which
is inspected at the border. Eighteen and twenty
days from Boston to Toronto is no unusual rec-
ord just now. Meanwhile, domestic shipments
have taken longer. The dealer, therefore, who
wants to keep his stock in presentable shape
would do well to order new stock while he still
has some copies on hand to carry him over the
period while he is waiting for his first shipment.
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