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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HEADQUARTERS IN HARTFORD, CONN. MECHANICAL ROYALTIES IN CANADA
Church, Paxson & Co. Complete Reorganiza-
tion as C. C. Church & Co. With C. C. Church
in Control—New York Offices to Be Retained
Progress Being Made in the Action of Feist
Versus Columbia Graphophone Co. to Deter-
mine Status of American Publishers There
C. C. Church, of Church, Paxson & Co., an-
nounces that he has completed plans which have
been maturing for several months of reorgan-
izing and removing the main office of the com-
pany to Hartford, Conn., where the business of
the company will be conducted under the name
of C. C. Church & Co., at 60 Allyn street.
The reorganization followed immediately
upon the purchase of the interest of C. E. Pax-
son by Mr. Church. None of the policies of
Church, Paxson & Co. will be affected. We
understand that Mr. Church has some real sur-
prises for the trade for the coming season.
Church, Paxson & Co. were organized in 1909
and have always been noted for their excellent
instrumental sellers, although some of their
songs have attained proportionate popularity.
The present offices at 1367 Broadway, New
York, will be retained, but the main office, as
above stated, will be in Hartford. Nicholson &
Co., Ltd., of Sydney, are the Australian agents.
In the action brought by Leo Feist, Inc.,
against the Columbia Graphophone Co. to re-
cover royalties on certain records manufactured
by the defendant under contract with the plain-
tiffs, and designed particularly to define the
right of the defendant to evade payment of roy-
alties on records manufactured in Canada, the
court in ordering that the defendant be per-
mitted to furnish certified copies of books and
records instead of producing the originals, and
also that there be some changes in the former
complaint, declared in part:
SONG WRITER OF NO IMPORTANCE
London Court Hands Down Startling Decision
to That Effect in Recent Case—Music Lovers
Hasten to File Protests Against Ruling
According to a report from London, Eng., a
court in that city recently handed down a de-
cision in the case of a song writer and with
respect to his national importance, in which it
was held that in the view of the judges song
writing was not only work of no national im-
portance, but was, to quote the decision, "of
no importance at all."
British music circles are declared to be much
perturbed over the decision, and its probable
effect not only upon the attitude of the pub-*
lie, but upon the future of the art of music.
Music lovers have been quick to voice their
protest through the columns of the newspapers,
pointing out the important part played by music
in the present war, in cheering up and main-
taining the morale of the men in service.
J. L DILWORTH ON TRIP
J. L. Dilworth, of Huntzinger & Dilworth,
left early this month on a visit to the trade in
the South and West. Mr. Dilworth's itinerary
covers all the larger trade' centers in the above
territory, and he is not expected to return until
early in October. He will especially feature
the patriotic numbers "Send Me a Curl" and
"Carry On," published by his firm.
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BOSTON Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
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BOSTON, MASS.
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BOSTON
NEW YORK
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PUBLISHERS,
AUGUST 3, 1918
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Our prices on all classes of music -will average the
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"It is not seriously disputed that the plaintiff cannot re-
cover royalties upon any records manufactured and sold in
Canada, but the plaintiff claims that the examination will
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CHICAGO
show that the defendant has caused the rendition of the
song to be recorded in wax in the United States, and that
even if the records were then manufactured and reproduced
COMPOSER SUES PUBLISHER
in permanent form from these wax records in Canada, the
plaintiff can recover upon royalty for such records, upon
Roberto Vitale Brings Action Against G. Schir-
the theory that they were manufactured within the United
States within the meaning of the Copyright Law, and the
mer, Inc., Over Libretto
license issued to the defendant, and that after the plaintiff
has secured the evidence in regard to the method of manu-
Roberto Vitale, a composer, brought suit in
facture by the examination of the defendant the issues of
the trial will practically be reduced to an issue of law in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, this week to re-
this regard."
cover $10,000 damages from G. Schirmer, Inc.,
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
The suit, which is termed in a sense a friend-
ly one, is designed to define the rights of Ameri-
can publishers in the matter of the mechanical
reproduction of their copyrighted publications
in Canada, and the progress of the action is be-
ing viewed with great interest by the trade.
CARUSO SINGS "OVER THERE"
Famous Tenor Enthuses Audience With Rendi-
tion of Popular Song at Ocean Grove
The following item, taken from the Newark
Sunday Call, tells of Enrico Caruso's appearance
at the Ocean Grove Auditorium, and the terrific
hit he made by singing "Over There," published
by Leo M. Feist, Inc. Under the heading
"Caruso Takes Vast Audience by Storm, Stirs
Pandemonium in Ocean Grove Auditorium by
Singing 'Over There' as Surprise Number," the
story reads as follows:
Ocean Grove, July 27.—(Special)—Enrico Ca-
ruso, the great tenor of the Metropolitan, elec-
trified an audience which practically tested the
capacity of the Ocean Grove Auditorium to-
night by adding to his last group of selections
the famous George M. Cohan patriotic song,
"Over There." He sang it twice in Italian and
once in English. After the first rendition pan-
demonium broke loose and he was compelled
to repeat. When he had given the popular
number for the third time, in English, there was
another great outburst. It was a kind of en-
thusiasm which he had never aroused before to
so high a pitch.
After the tenor's second program group, in-
cluding Rossini's "La Danza" and Tosti's "Good
Bye," sung in Italian, he added several extra
numbers and then came the surprise and climax
of the evening. With a broad smile he began
to sing the familiar Cohan song, in Italian. As
he completed it there were hurrahs, yells,
whistling and all sorts of noises which a spirit
of pandemonium gives vent to. More than any-
thing else it resembled a political convention
which had just nominated a favorite candidate.
for alleged failure to carry out an agreement
for the delivery to him of 3,000 score copies of
his operetta "Joan the First of Naples," with
the libretto.
Vitale avers he was damaged $10,000 because
he could not produce the work or vend copies
of it to subscribers. Vitale was ordered to sub-
mit a bill of particulars.
NEW FLAMMER j>ATRIOTIC NUMBER
Harold Flammer, Inc., publishers of high-class
music, have issued a new patriotic song entitled
"Hurry, U. S. A.," and will place it in the pop-
ular class. The number received much popu-
larity in some of the Southern training camps.
G. Hoag Wilson is the author.
The Song of the Moment
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
('Till the Boys Come Home)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
NEW YORK
TWO BIG SUCCESSES
"SEND ME A CURL"
"CARRY ON"
By GEOFFREY O'HARA
High Voice
The cunp soot farorite
By N. F. WOODBURY
Low Voice
Destined to be the moat popular of war lonj•
HUNTZINGER & DILWORTH
159 West 57th Street
NEW YORK
PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
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