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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
PUBLISHERS AND DEALERS HOLD THEIR ANNUAL OUTING
Local Association Stages Most Enjoyable Affair at Glen Head, L. I., With a Large Number of
Prominent Sheet Music Men in Attendance—Loving Cup for Walter Eastman
The annual Summer outing of the Greater
New York Publishers' and Dealers' Association
was held at Glendale Lodge, Glen Head, L. I.,
on Tuesday of last week.
A party assembled in front of the Charles
H. Ditson store, 11 East Thirty-fourth street,
New York City, and shortly after 11 o'clock
the private cars and sight-seeing buses holding
about sixty members of the organization de-
parted for the day's activities.
Upon arriving at Glendale Lodge a substan-
tial luncheon was served, shortly after which
those who attended repaired to the ball field,
where the closely contested nine-inning game,
played by two teams the members of which
v/ere selected from both the music publishers'
and the mechanical reproduction organizations'
ranks, took place. One of the teams was cap-
tained by George H. Bliss, the other by Joe
Glassmacher. The Bliss team won by a score
of five to four. It was composed of Ralph
Kaiser, J. N. Beck, J. C. Santly, Edward Bloe-
den, Cliff Hess, Albert Norburg, J. A. Decatur,
Jack Bliss, Fred Haguer, L. Epstein and Ed-
ward Christie. The opposing team was com-
posed of L. Winkler, Albert Kanes, W. D. Fay,
E. B. Marks, L. M. Weipert, J. F. Kirtz, J. T.
Roach, Joe Glassmacher, Albert Kornheiser
and H. D. Berkeley. After the ball game, many
of those who attended took advantage of the
beach at Glendale Landing.
In the evening a shore dinner was served
which was particularly marked by the presenta-
tion to Walter Eastman, formerly manager of
the American branch of Chapell & Co., of a
handsome silver loving cup, suitably engraved,
•as a token of esteem from the members of the
association.
George Fischer, president of the body, made
the presentation speech and said:
"The plot of this scenario about to be car-
ried out has in the foreground, no, not a villain,
but an honest-to-goodness gentleman and music
publisher; a gentleman from London, as it were.
The remaining characters, or the mob, some
tenors, some basses, some neither, are recruited
from the ranks. . . .
"Being minus the services of a projecting ma-
chine (that's what it is called in the fillum world,
is it not?), to throw on the screen, had we
one, the picture of our hero, I ask Mr. Eastman
to kindly rise and show to the boys his smiling
face, excelled only by Douglas Fairbanks.
"Word was recently sent broadcast that Wal-
ter Eastman intended soon to transfer his field
of activities from New York to London, a step
which, while it may mean much to him, cast
gloom in the ranks of not only our own asso-
ciation, but throughout the entire trade, with
whom Mr. Eastman has come in close touch
during the many years he spent in our midst.
"To review every pnase of your activities, Mr.
Eastman, while over here is not my purpose.
The real object of this scene is to present you
with a token of esteem by which to remember
the men with whom you were for many years
thrown in contact in a social and business way.
"As one of our founders your name will
remain affiliated with the organization as long
as it exists. After once you have returned to
London, 1 am sure your thoughts will frequently
be directed New York way, and whenever the
desire overcomes you to be with the boys
again, just fill this loving cup, a gift to you
from each and every one of us, drain it to the
last drop, and know that there remain on this
side of the big pond more than a few who at
all times took pride in calling you a colleague
and friend.
"When you come back again to these shores,
and come back you will, you must give us an
opportunity, each and every one, to welcome
you in our midst.
"Gentlemen, I now ask you to rise and drink
with whatever you have before you to the
health of Wally Eastman, and let us at the same
time express the hope that the strong bond
which now exists between our own America
and the publishers of England will be strength-
ened from year to year and that Air. Eastman
convey these sentiments to them when an oc-
casion for so. doing arises."
Walter Eastman responded with a short
speech which he said was the longest he had
ever made. It was received, however, with loud
and long applause. Mr. Eastman was then
elected honorary vice-president of the associa-
tion for a life term and the dinner was closed
by all standing and singing "He's a Jolly Good
Fellow."
Despite the fact that it was an ideal day, the
attendance was not as large as the officers of
the association expected. The entertainment it-
seif was as successful as anything the associa-
tion has ever given.
AUGUST 28, 1920
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COMPILER OF INDIAN SONGS DEAD
Carlos Troyer, famous compiler of the Zuni
Indian songs, died recently at his home in San
Francisco, after an illness of several months.
He was eighty-four years old. Mrs. Troyer, his
widow, aged seventy-four, is critically ill.
Musician, composer, savant, essayist, explorer,
humanitarian, was Carlos Troyer, whose friends,
through the lapse of years, had included Liszt,
Jenny Lind, Dom Pedro of Brazil, Mrs. H. H.
Beach, American song writer, and the late
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
At one time Carlos Troyer headed an opera
troupe, which played in the West Indies.
During nine months, while he was a captive
among the Indians, Troyer made a record of 400
tribal songs. In 1888 he visited the Zuni Indians,
the cliff dwellers of New Mexico and Arizona.
From these people Troyer gathered material for
his books and Indian songs, which have been
sung in various parts of the world.
TEACHERS PREDICT DEATH OF JAZZ
Dancing Masters in Convention in Cleveland
Say Steps Next Season Will Be Simpler
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CLEVELAND, O., August 23.—The International
Association of Dancing Masters, whose annual
convention was held in this city a few days
ago, announced that dancing is to be made
easier for the tired business and professional
man, the matron with nerves and the distracted
debutante. Steps for the coming season will
require less physical and mental effort and jazz
was declared to be dead.
"Dancers of to-day want to put as little ef-
fort into their work as possible," said W. D.
Lynch, of Akron, O., president of the associa-
tion.
Mrs. Frank H. Sinclair, owner of a dancing
academy in Ottawa, Canada, said that the
shimmy has passed out in Canada and jazz
"has been dead for some time," all of which
is interesting, if true.
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