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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
OCTOBER 19,
1918
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
JAMES E. DEMPSEY PASSES AWAY
Weil-Known Lyric Writer a Victim of Influenza
at His Home in Philadelphia
KLAW & ERLANGER'S PRODUCTI ON OF THE NEW MUSICAL PLAY
THE GIRL BEH HND THE GUN
James K. Dempsey, one of the best-known
and most successful of the popular song writers,
and who was particularly active in that field
some years ago, died at his home in Philadel-
phia on October 9, a victim of Spanish in-
fluenza. Mr. .Dempsey was about forty years
old and a native of Philadelphia. In his early
days he traveled with Dumont's Minstrels for
over twelve years, and then joined the staff of
Jerome H. Remick & Co., the publishers, where
he remained for three years as a lyric writer.
Songs for which he supplied lyrics included
Johann C. Schmid's big hit, "Garden of Roses,"
and such numbers as "The Hour That Gave Me
You," "Roses Remind Me of Someone," "There's
No Girl Like Your Old Girl," "Moonlight in
Jungle Land," "Missing" and "Ashes of Love."
His later songs include "Germany Will Soon Be
No Man's Land," "A Soldier's Rosary," "My
Rose of Waikiki" and "The Greatest Day the
World Will Ever Know."
PUBLISHERS CONSIDERING FORMATION OF ORGANIZATION
McCORMACK SINGING DITSON SONG
Initial Meeting Held Last Week to Discuss Proposed Plan for Organizing a National Association
of Music Publishers to Be Affiliated With the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
John McCormack sang the new Ditson patri-
otic number, "When Pershing's Men Come
Marching Into Picardy," before the President at
the Metropolitan Opera House on September
28. Since that time he also used it as an en-
core number in one of his Sunday Hippodrome
concerts. Dana Burnet and James H. Rogers
are the authors.
FEIST SECURES RIGHTS TO POEM
Leo Feist, Inc., early last week received by
cable the American rights to the poem "When
I Come Home," which is being used extensively
in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. The poem
was written by Leslie Coulson (killed in action
October 7, 1916). Leo Feist, Inc., are having
it set to music, and it will be issued at once.
Greatest Song We Ever Published!
IT WILL LIVE LONG AFTER THIS
BIG WAR IS OVER
Original "SUNSHINE" Song
AND BEHIND YOU THE SHADOWS WILL FALL
SONG
• LYRIC BY
PAUL B ARMSTRONG
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Book and Lyrics by GUY BOLTON and P. G. W ODEHOUSE
THERE'S A LIGHT IN YOUR EYES .60
(Waltz Song)
SOME DAY WAITING WILL END
Back to the Dear Old Trenches .
I Like It
Women Have No Mercy on the Men
Vocal Score .
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Music by IVAN CARYLL
THE GIRL BEHIND THE MAN BE-
HIND THE GUN
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THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD DOG
YET
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A Happy Family
I've A System
Oh! How Warm it is Today .
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CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd., 41 East 34th St., New York
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MELBOURNE
The Lyrics ire published b y special arrangement with
T. B. HARMS and FRANCIS. DAY & HUNTER. NEW YORK
Copyright MCMXV1I by Chapp fll Sc Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Local music publishers to the number of a
score or more gathered in the offices of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce at 105
West Fortieth street, on Friday morning of
last week, for the purpose of considering the or-
ganizing of a National Association of Music
Publishers, with the idea of affiliating with the
Chamber of Commerce.
Unfortunately the plan as set forth by its
promoter appeared so complicated and unintel-
ligible to the publishers that it was only after
lengthy discussion that they were able to grasp
the fundamental idea, which delayed things to
such an extent that no organization could be
formed at the first meeting.
The plan for the organization as outlined
will be rewritten in simplified terms and copies
sent to music publishers in general that they
may study it and thus be ready to render a de-
cision at another meeting to be held within a
month or so, after the present epidemic of in-
fluenza, which was responsible in a measure for
keeping some publishers away, has passed.
It was pointed out that with a national or-
ganization taking in all members of the trade,
the publishers could appoint and maintain com-
mittees to handle questions of copyright, music
sizes, curtailments, legislation and the other
problems of the business, with a minimum of
friction and that through membership in the
Chamber of Commerce publishers would also
take up directly with music roll manufacturers
and others questions interesting two or more
factions of the industry. The suggestion was
also made that through a centralized jobbing
organization the publishers could handle their
distribution more satisfactorily than under the
present jobbing system.
Considerable discussion resolved around the
question as to what would become of the now
existing organizations in the trade, such as the
Music Publishers' Protective Association, the
Music Publishers' Association of the United
States, and the American Society of Authors,
Composers and Publishers in their relations with
any proposed organization taking in as mem-
bers the same people.
Although the publishers present appeared to
be in favor of the idea of a National Association
affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce, and
others had written in support of the plan, there
were a great many details that did not appear
clear to those at the meeting.
George Fischer, of J. Fischer & Bro.; Charles
K. Harris, Edward B. Marks, of Joseph W.
Stern & Co., and H. W. Gray, of the H. W.
Gray Co., were selected as a committee to
get in touch with local publishers, explain the
organization plan, and persuade them to at-
tend the next meeting for the purpose of form-
ing an association. Clarence A. Woodman, of
the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, was deputized
to interview the Boston trade on the question.
Those present at the meeting included Harry
Von Tilzer, of the Harry Von Tilzer Music Co.;
Ted Barron, of the Metropolis Music Co.;
Charles K. Harris, E. 13. Marks, Joseph W.
Stern & Co.; H. W. Gray, of the H. W. Gray
Co.; J. N. Priaulx, of Charles H. Ditson & Co.;
Sol. Bornstein, Broadway Music Corp.; Max
Dreyfus, T. B. Harms, Francis, Day & Hunter;
E. T. Paull; George Fischer, of J. Fischer &
Bro.; Louis Bernstein, of Shapiro, Bernstein &
Co.; H. H. Gordon, Estate of Hamilton S. Gor-
don; Fred Kraft, of the Schuberth Music Co.;
Harold Flammer, Isidor Witmark, M. Witmark
& Sons, and William LaVar, of Howard & La-
Var.
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SONGS
•SMILES"
•I LOVE YOU MORE FOR LOSING
YOU A WHILE"
•WHEN WE MEET IN THE SWEET BYE
AND BYE"
•WE'LL. BUILD A RAINBOW IN THE
SKY"
•THERE'S A LUMP OF SUGAR DOWN
IN DIXIE"
•SWEET LITTLE BUTTERCUP"
•ON THE ROAD TO HOME SWEET
HOME"
•YOU'RE IN STYLE WHEN YOU'RE
WEARING A SMILE"
•MANDY AND ME"
•WHEN WE WENT TO SUNDAY
SCHOOL"
•RAGTIME MOSE'S BOMBOSHAY"
•MY GIRL FROM THE SOUTHLAND"
"BLUEBIRD"
"N* EVERYTHING"
JEROME H. REMICK & CO.
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