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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1919 Vol. 68 N. 13

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1919
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
THE CHECKING OF ROLL ROYALTIES
DEATH OF H. M. BLOSSOM
"LET'S BEAT IT" SCORES
So Many Different Methods of Checking Roy-
alties Are in Vogue That a Standardized Way
of Collecting Is Almost Imperative
Playwright and Librettist of Many Famous
Broadway Shows Succumbs to Pneumonia
Twenty-seventh Division Show at the Century
Highly Spoken of—Book and Music Good
Henry Martyn Blossom, Jr., author and play-
wright, died on Sunday night in his apart-
ment at the Hotel Belnord. New York, of
pneumonia.
The funeral services, under the
direction of the Lambs Club, of which Mr.
Blossom was a member, were held at the Camp-
bell Funeral Church, Broadway and Sixty-sixth
street, on last Wednesday morning.
The playwright was born in St. Louis, Mo.,
May 10, 1866, a son of Henry Martyn and
Susan S. Blossom, and he attended the Stod-
dard School in that city, and was engaged in
the insurance business there before he came to
New York City, where he had since lived.
Mr. Blossom contributed to the Broadway
stage many of its successful comedies, musical
plays, and comic opera librettos, including the
famous "Checkers," "The Yankee Consul,"
"Mademoiselle Modiste," "The Prima Donna,"
"Miss Philura," "The Slim Princess," "The Man
From Cook's," "The Red Mill." "The Only Girl,"
"A Trip to Washington," "Princess Pat,"
"Eileen" and others. His published fiction in-
cluded "The Documents in Evidence," "Checkers
—A Hard Luck Story" and "The Brother of
Chuck McGann."
"Let's Beat It," the first Twenty-seventh Di-
vision show since "You Know Me, Al," which
was presented last year, was given Monday
night at the Century Theatre. The lively music
and catchy lines of this year's musical farce so
captivated the audience that no one wanted "to
beat it" until the performance was over.
The book and lyrics were written in the bat-
tle areas of France when the boys were not en-
gaged in actual fighting. Some of the perform-
ers had been slightly wounded, but even this
did not hinder them from dancing gracefully
and, in the case of those who were impersonat-
ing girls, from doing it in the best possible raaii-
r.tr. The production was staged by Lieutenant
William A. Halloran and Private Harry Gribble.
Major-General John F. O'Ryan, commanding
the Twenty-seventh Division, and Mrs. O'Ryan
and party occupied a box draped with the Ameri-
can flag. Jerome H. Remick & Co. are the pub-
lishers of the score.
Tt is understood that the Music Publishers'
Protective Association at a recent meeting
went on record as opposed to the action of one
of the publishers of standard music in his move
to insist that a music roll manufacturer buy spe-
cial royalty stamps from his firm to be placed
on a certain number, specifying that the stamps
could be used on the one number only. The
total purchase of stamps involved amounted to
a substantial sum, and it is not thought that
the music roll manufacturers look with favor on
the precedent established.
The music roll cutters are at present using
the words of the songs on their rolls through
a number of arrangements. The old standard
houses furnish royalty stamps to be placed on
every roll manufactured for the trade. This
arrangement was also the original one insisted
upon by the popular publishing houses, but who
since January 1 have agreed to allow the music
roll manufacturers to abolish the use of stamps,
the roll makers making concessions and adopt-
ing a method of auditing which is just as ef-
fective as a means of checking the sales of
word rolls as was the use of stamps.
Some of the very smallest publishers not con-
nected with any organization have individual ar-
rangements with the music roll manufacturers,
so at the present time there is no real stand-
ard arrangement by which permission for the
use of the words is given, although the majority
of the popular publishers are members of the
Music Publishers' Protective Association, which
made the special agreement outlined above, by
which the stamps for their numbers were elim-
inated.
Now that the majority of the members of the
Music Publishers' Protective Association have
joined the Music Publishers' Association of the
United States it would seem that the coming
convention of that body in June would be a
good opportunity to standardize both the con-
tract and the method of checking the manufac-
ture of word rolls. This procedure will un-
doubtedly also meet with the approval of the
roll manufacturers.
SEVERAL NEW FEIST NUMBERS
Leo Feist, Inc., Introducing a Number of New
Songs to the Public
Among the new popular songs announced by
Leo Feist, Inc., New York, are "Friends," by
Howard Johnson and Joe Santly; "Norma," by
Archie Gottler and Sidney Mitchell, and also a
song called "Daughter of Mine," by the same
writers. Teddy Morse and Russell Robinson are
the authors of a new jazz number entitled "Jaz-
zola." This latter number is announced as "not
a drink but a song."
The New York Chamber Music Co., Manhat-
tan, has been incorporated for the purpose of
music production with a capital stock of $100,-
00O. The incorporators are E. O. Dorman, E.
McClellan and C. Beebe.
THE TWO
THE SINGER
RosesofPicardy
Music by HAYDN WOOD
SONG (LOW, MEDIUM and HIGH VOICE)
ALSO PI B U S K E D AS
VOCAL D I E T (FOR CONTRALTO AND BARITONE)
VOCAL D I E T (FOR SOPRANO AND TENOR)
FEMALE OCTAVO (OI'ARTETTE FOR S.S.A.A.)
MIXED OCTAVO (QFAKTETTE FOR S.A.T.B.)
MALE OCTAVO ( Q I A R T E T T E FOR T.T.B.B.)
PIANOFORTE SOLO
VIOLIN AND PIANO
PIANOFORTE SOLO—"ROSES OF PICARDV" WALTZ
SONG ORCHESTRATIONS (Bb. ( . I).)
14 PARTS AND PIANO
10 PARTS AND PIANO
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 EAST 34th ST.
JOHN
McCORMACK
Ernest Hare, the well-known baritone and un-
derstudy to \1 Jolson in "Sinbad," is achieving
success among the phonograph companies as a
recording artist. He has already made a num-
ber of fine records of popular coon songs, many
of which have been released. He is at present
singing with success McKinley Music Co.'s big
number "You Can Have It, I Don't Want It,"
and is about to record this number for several
ot the leading talking machine companies.
HARRIS' NEW MOTHER SONG
The new mother song recently added to the
catalog of Chas. K. Harris is being placed in
the program of a large number of professional
entertainers. It is called "Mother Love" and
is announced as the successor to "Break the
News to Mother." This ballad with the novelty
srng "Ze Yankee Boys Have Made a Wild
French Baby Out of Me" and "Give Me a Syn-
copated Tune" are the leading numbers in the
Harris catalog at present.
GREATEST
The World's Greatest Tenor Is Programming
and Creating a Furore at All His Recitals With
Words by FRED. E. WEATHERLY
SHINING AS RECORDING ARTIST
NEW YORK
TORONTO: 347 YONGE ST.
THE SONG
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MARCH 29, 1919
PAULL MARCH IN DEMAND
PUPILS VOTEFOR JAZZ
MUSIC BOOM IN SAN FRANCISCO
"Spirit of France" Meeting With Instantaneous
Popularity Everywhere
Students in Newark School Pass Up the Clas-
sical Stuff and Demand Shimmy Numbers
E. T. Paull, of the E. T. Paull Music Co., has
sent over eight hundred dealers copies of his new
inarch number, "Spirit of France." He states
that within the last few days the repeat orders
that the dealers have sent in since the short time
the piece has been put on sale indicate that it
is to have a big demand. It is without doubt
one of the best march compositions from this
well-known writer's pen, and is issued as the
companion piece to his "Pershing's Crusaders."
The above firm announces that band and or-
chestra arrangements of the new number will
be ready shortly.
Sherman, Clay & Co. Hard Put to Supply De-
mand for Their Hits—Song Shop to Be En-
larged—Recent Developments in the Trade
Under the title of "Jazz Singing Makes Hit
in School," the following item appeared in sev-
eral newspapers. It should bring smiles to the
faces of Edgar F. Bitner, Saul Bornstein and
Joe Keit.
" 'How many of you children prefer to sing
ragtime rather than classical music?' asked
Louis Siff, a substitute teacher in the Central
High School, Newark, N. J., when he noticed
the pupils were not putting the necessary vim
into 'No, 167,' from the singing book.
"Instantly every hand went up and every
pupil exhibited unusual 'pep.'
"'Well, what shall we start with?' asked the
teacher.
" 'Minnie, Do the Shimmy for Me,' piped up
one of the up-to-date pupils.
" 'All right,' responded the instructor, and as
the music started the pupils sang as they never
had before in that music room.
"That finished, they continued their recreation
by singing a number of other popular selections,
including 'Ja-Da' and 'Smiles.'
"Mr. Siff said, when asked about the jazz time
singing, he believed children should have some
recreation, and the music room was the place
for it. So he allows the pupils to sing the kind
of songs they like."
DEATH OF OUTRANK R. RIX
Prominent Musical Authority Was One of Those
Who Objected to Dialect in Song
Dr. Frank Reader Rix, physician and musi-
cian, who for the last eighteen years was Man-
hattan Borough Supervisor of Musical Educa-
tion in the Public Schools for the New York
Board of Education, died last week at the New
York Skin and Cancer Hospital. The funeral
services were held on Tuesday evening and the
body was taken to Lowell, Mass.
After graduation from Harvard University as
a physician, Dr. Rix practiced his profession in
Lowell for fourteen years before he decided on
a musical career.
He had a baritone voice and
studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music
and in Paris. Twenty-five years ago he came
to New York City.
Dr. Rix was an advocate of eliminating "dia-
lect" from songs such as "Dixie" printed in the
textbooks, and a conference of high school
music teachers in September, 1916, asked music
publishers to make the change. "The reasons,"
said Dr. Rix at that time, "should appeal to any
interested person. We want our children to
learn pure English, not a dialect. I think that
the change ought to be made throughout the
country."
The Western Music Co., Weston, Pa., has
been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000
by M. A. Turner, W. W. Dunnington, J. L.
Poling, J. B. Hamrick and Roy Kitson, all of
Weston.
TWO NEW NUMBERS
Meyer Cohen Music Co. Bringing Out T w o
Numbers That Should Please
"Roses of Arcady," a number by Otto Motzan,
published by the Meyer Cohen Music Co., will
be shortly issued as a song, the lyrics of which
have been written by Rachel Story. This and
a song called "For if Kisses Are Intoxicating
as They Say, Prohibition, You Have Lost Your
Sling," will be featured by the company during
the next few months. The latter number will
be introduced by Sophie Tucker.
A NEW CLASSICAL BALLAD
"Think, Love, of Me," is the title of a new
classical ballad, by Frank H. Grey, published
by the Sam Fox Publishing Co., which is gain-
ing in popularity, according to the most recent
reports from the trade. This is the number
that is being used as the musical theme by a
large number of motion picture producers, who
find in it an excellent number for the purpose.
It is estimated before the end of the year that
close to fifty productions will assist in giving
this number publicity, which should do much to
increase its sales.
"SWEET HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHT"
Tell Her of My Love
"YOU CAN HAVE IT, I DON'T WANT I T "
"WHEN YOU HOLD ME IN YOUR A R M S "
"WHEN I MET Y O U "
"LIBERTY BELL RING O N "
"E-YIP-Y0W YANKEE BOYS"
Welcome Home Agrain
"0
LADY, QUIT ROLLING YOUR E Y E S "
" K E E P YOUR FACE TO THE SUNSHINE"
'THERE IS NO DEATH, THEY ALL SURVIVE"
" I N FLANDERS F I E L D "
" T H E TRENCH TROT "
" A T THE SHIMME-SHA-WABBLERS' BALL"
"DALLAS BLUES" (Song and Piano)
"THERE'S AN ANGEL MISSING FROM
HEAVEN"
" 0 KIDD0"
"OLD GLORY GOES MARCHING ON"
"THERE'S A LITTLE BLUE STAR IN THE
WINDOW"
"MOONLIGHT BLUES WALTZ"
"SWEET HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHT VALSE"
Artmusic Gems
"Forever Is A Long,
Long Time"
"When the Evening
* Bells Are Ringing"
"Oh! You Don't Know
What You're Missin'
"Waters of Venice
(Instrumental)
"Floating Down the
Sleepy Lagoon"
(Song version "Waters of Venice")
" L E T ' S KEEP THE GLOW IN OLD GLORY "
ARTMUSIC, Inc.
145 West 45th St.
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO, CAT.., March 22.—Sherman, Clay
& Co. state that they are having difficulty in get-
ting enough of the copies of their recent mu-
sical hits printed to satisfy the demand of the
trade. Thousands of copies are sent out nearly
every day, and one day this week 50,000 copies
of various hits were shipped to various cus-
tomers.
The Song Shop on Market street, owned by
Remick & Co., is about to enlarge its place of
business in order to take care of its increased
trade. While it has sold player rolls before it
is going to establish a player roll department
to better meet the demand made upon it for
the recent hits in the rolls.
The Fisk Music Publishing Co. has scored a
hit in "Chicken Hawk," words and music by
Edward La Place, which is being played this
week at the Palace and Fairmont Hotels. Next
week it is to be sung at the Casino, the principal
musical comedy house of the city.
Ben Bloom has been put in charge of the new
professional office opened in this city in the
Pantages Theatre Building by McCarthy &
Fisher, music publishers.
STASNY SONG SELLING FAST
On Friday of last week one hundred copies
of the new A. J. Stasny Music Co. song, "Eve-
ning," were placed on sale at the music coun-
ter of the Woolworth store, Fifth avenue, as a
test of its salability. The number was displayed
at 12 o'clock, and shortly before 2 the depart-
ment had sold out.
PEOPLE'S LIBERTY CHORUS SINGS
The People's Liberty Chorus, a new organiza-
tion whose object is development of the love for
music among all classes, gave their first of-
ficial "sing" at the Hippodrome on Sunday last.
Many prominent people are in the organization.
The A. J. Stasny Music Co. have acquired
additional floor space at 56 West Forty-fifth
stieet, New York, which is to be used as a
stock and shipping room.
IT'S A R A G - IF YOU SAY SO
IT'S A BALLAD ~IF YOU SAY so
AND WHAT A"DANCE"& INSTRUMENTAL
WE'LL SAT 5 0

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