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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MAY
29, 1920
DEALERS READY FOR CONVENTION
—a waltz sensation
by OLIVER WALLACE
Sheet Music Retailers of Twin Cities to Attend
Meeting in New York and Will Endeavor to
Garner a Larger Share of the Profits
ST. PAUL, MINN., May 24.—Watch for the
composer of
con-
vention of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers, for there is blood on the moon,
—that is, figuratively speaking. The retail deal-
ers want a more equitable division of the emolu-
ments of the sheet music trade and they are
going to the convention to get it or learn the
reason why, according to Paul A. Schmitt, for-
mer vice-president of the Association. Mr.
Schmitt, of Minneapolis, H. R. Skeath, of W. J.
Dyer & Bro., J. A. Simon, of the Metropolitan
Music Co., and H. P. Blakestad expect to attend
the big meet and help promote the cause of the
retailers. Of course they are not going down
in a bellicose mood, but they expect to learn
why they are not getting greater profits.
"We long have felt that the publishers have
been getting the long end of the margin of
profit," explained Mr. Schmitt. "All the dealers
are of one mind on this subject, but we have
failed to obtain results largely because there has
been no unity of action in approaching the sub-
ject."
Sheet music is not moving any too rapidly.
The slow season is on, when the young folks
are thinking more of outdoors than of indoor
amusements, and the many teachers and their
pupils have scattered for the Summer for rest
and recreation.
HINDUSTAN
CHARLEY
STRAIGHT
picked it for Imperial Rolls.
HE KNOWS.
Sweeping the Far West like
a prairie fire—OUR BEST
SELLER.
DANIELS & WILSON, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
New York Office:
145 W. 45th'St.
RAINBOW ISLE
B> BETTY BENTLFY and JAMES W. CASEY
Feature theme in D. W. Griffith's New South Sea Island Picture. "THE IDOI. DANCER." now
• hown in every town.
A WALTZ SONC THAT WILL SURELY SWEEP THE COUNTRY
:;; TK s UNDER WESTERN SKIES LITTLE JO DOWN KENTUCKY WAY SANDY
Order Direct or From Your Jobbei
ECHO MUSIC PUB. CO.,
Peoples Bank Bldg.,
SEATTLE, WASH.
'ALL FOR A GIRL" IN REHEARSAL
Percy Wcnrich is the composer of a new
musical comedy entitled "All for a Girl," now
in rehearsal, which will enter New York in the
near future. The book and lyrics of the piece
are by Raymond Peck and the cast includes
Ray Raymond and Dolly Connolly, the wife
of Mr. Wenrich.
AN UNUSUAL WALTZ NOVELTY
L & H. FEATURE THE "CROCODILE"
AUGUST 1 SET AS FINAL DATE
Window Display Advertises Song Hit in Sheet
Music Form and on the Records—Novel Jun-
gle Setting Attracts Much Attention
Composers who wish to compete for the prize
of $1,000 for the best string quartet, offered by
the Berkshire Music Colony, must send their
scores and also separate parts before August 1
to Hugo Kortschak, whose address after July 1
will be in care of the Berkshire Music Colony,
The new Irving Berlin, Inc., number, "Croco-
dile," is apparently one of the most successful
Described as a novelty of novelties, Fred
Fisher, Inc., have just issued a number entitled
"Way Down Barcelona Way." It is an unusual
waltz melody with a Spanish accompaniment,
and from all indications it appears to be a dis-
tinct pleasure for the various orchestras to
render it.
Fox-Trot Ballad Hit
Looks Like a Sensation
Introductory
Price
Chicago
15c
McKinley Music Co.
New Y.rk
Window Display of "Crocodile" at Lyon & Healy Store
of this season's instrumental numbers. Its popu-
larity has been so great that the various talking
machine record and other mechanical recording
companies have made a special feature of it.
The trade, too, has given it much recogni-
tion in both sheet music and talking machine
record form, and it has come in for some
prominent displays.
Herewith is reproduced a recent window dis-
play in the Lyon & Healy store, Chicago, 111.,
one of the leading music houses of the country,
and distributors for the Victor Talking Ma-
chine Co. The display in this instance features
both the Victor record of "Crocodile" and the
song in sheet music form. The setting was most
artistic and owing to the fact that it represented
a jungle scene and had a tank in which sev-
eral crocodiles appeared it attracted unusual
attention.
NICE & CO.'S FORCE ACTIVE
Carl Albert, the sales manager of B. D. Nice
& Co., who recently returned from the Pacific
Coast, has again departed for a visit to the
Western trade. Billy Hueston of the same firm
has just returned from the South where he states
the firm's number "Wond'ring" is having great
popularity, and that the novelty number "Do a
Little This—Do a Little That" is showing up
well.
South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. The jury of
award consists of Ernest Bloch, Louis Svecen-
ski, Ugo Ara and Emmeran Stoeber of New
York and Felix Borowski of Chicago.
George Gershwin has been selected to write
the music for the musicalized version of "The
Misleading Lady," which will be presented dur-
ing the coming Fall.
Get This Right
"ALABAMA
MOON"
Is a Real Hit
A Crooning, Moon
light Song