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FEBRUARY 22,
THE
1919
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
51
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CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
LOCAL ASSOCIATION ELECTS
Annual Dinner and Election of Officers of
Greater New York Music Publishers' and
Dealers' Association Held This Week
The annual election and dinner of the Greater
New York Music Publishers' and Dealers' As-
sociation was held on Wednesday evening of
this week at Castle Cave, the well-known and
unique steak and chop house. A beefsteak din-
ner was served, followed by some professional
entertainment, after which the election of officers
for the ensuing year took place. A full report
of the annual meeting and election will appear in
next week's Review.
We beg to announce the publication of one of the best descriptive ballads ever
issued. A song that will live forever . . .
a wonderful story, beautifully
told by Byron Gay, set to the most exquisite melody Neil Moret has ever written.
MY
BUDDY
Probably no song has ever been so unanimously praised and accepted by singers
. . . it will soon be ringing thru the country from every concert and vaude-
ville stage, and the natural selling qualities of the song, coupled to this and other
publicity, will create an instantaneous and continuous demand. Send for a
sample copy "gratis"; we want you to hear it before you order.
"Some day, in a better land,
I will grasp you by the hand,
My Buddy."
'THE ROYAL VAGABOND" OPENS
Professional Headquarters: 145 West 45th Street, New York City
N e w Opera Comique Receives Favorable Notice
—Witmark & Sons Publish the Score
DANIELS & WILSON, INC., San Francisco, CaL
'"The Royal Vagabond," an opera comique in
three acts, with book by Stephen Ivor Szinnyey
and Wm. Cary Duncan, lyrics by Wm. Cary
Duncan, and music by Anselm Goetzl, opened
at the Cohan & Harris Theatre on Monday night
of this week. The show was staged by Geo.
M. Cohan, who is also the author of several ad-
ditional musical numbers appearing in the play.
The piece was well received and the papers all
gave it an enthusiastic send-off. The score and
the following numbers are published by M. Wit-
mark & Sons, "Democracy," "Just for You and
You Alone," "Love Is Love," "Love of Mine,"
"Nice Little Girl on the Side," "When the World
Is Upside Down," "In the Kingdom of Our
Own" and "Good-bye Bargravia."
RETURN FROM VAUDEVILLE TOUR
Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland, of Gil-
bert & Friedland, Inc., music publishers, re-
cently returned from a very successful vaude-
ville tour of the Middle West. Last week they
appeared on the bill at the Royal Theatre and
this week they are at the Alhambra in New
York. "Singapore," one of the feature songs
which these boys both wrote and sing, is one of
the best received of their numbers.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
A NEW*
MAY FORM ONE BIG ORGANIZATION
Directors of Music Publishers' Association of
the U. S. to Meet and Consider Advisability
of Forming a National Organization
On Tuesday of next week there will be a
meeting of the directors of the Music Pub-
lishers' Association of the United States. No
definite place has been arranged, but it is un-
derstood the meeting, which will be preceded by
a luncheon, will be held at the Breslin Hotel.
The following day (Wednesday) a meeting com-
posed of the above association's members and a
large representation of other publishers will
hold a meeting, probably in the rooms of the
Vaudeville Managers' Protective Association,
Columbia Theatre Building. The purposes of
these gatherings will be to consider the advisa-
bility of all of the publishers joining the Music
Publishers' Association of the United States,
after which the body would affiliate itself with
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce.
There is a good possibility of the publishers
forming together and making their organization
a larger and more powerful one. Much con-
sideration will at any rate be given the move,
and if the proposers will form some definite pro-
gram without too.many revolutionary ideas, they
can probably get the support of the trade.
The Music Publishers' Protective Association
shows that a body of publishers with definite
and attainable aims can accomplish their pur-
poses. On the other hand, it is still a young
organization, although a good one, but they were
many years in progressing to the stage where
they formed such a responsible body, and it ill
behooves anyone who knows how hard it is to
form organizations that are effective forces,
with sound ideas behind them, to discredit the
years of effort of older bodies, who have ever
been prepared to hear the views of anyone who
had the good of the industry at heart.
BOYCOTT BY BRITISH MUSICIANS
Union Declares War on the Performing Rights
Society in That Country
It is reported that the Amalgamated Musi-
cians' Union of Great Britain has declared war
oi' the Performing Rights Society in that coun-
try, and has declared a boycott against the music
composed or published by members of the
society. The action taken by the musicians is a
result of the belief that if theatre managers and
others must pay for the performing rights of the
music they will cut down the number of musi-
cians to save expense. Already several songs
and pantomime numbers are declared to have
been withdrawn as a result of the protests of
the musicians. The Performing Rights Society
in England is similar to the American Society
of Authors, Composers "and Publishers.
Jfflarp Carl
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