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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JUNE 4, 1921
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
DISCUSS CONVENTION PLANS
BUYS STRAND MUSIC CORP.
Music Publishers' Association Holds Meeting at
the Hotel McAlpin, New York
Walter Windsor Takes Over Catalog and Assets
of New York Publishing House
The Music Publishers' Association of the
United States recently held a meeting at the
Hotel McAlpin, New York, in order to outline
a program for the annual convention of the
body, to be held at the Hotel Astor June 14.
Isadore Witmark presided, in the absence of
President C. A. Woodman, and at the opening
of the meeting read the following message from
Mr. Woodman:
"Cordial greetings to the officers and directors.
Do not forget our Association represents the
highest ideals in music. While it is experiencing
a period of quasi-inactivity its individual mem-
bers are making substantial progress. The good-
will, confidence and respect shown at our meet-
ings indicate our wonderful strength."
Several letters were read from Ohioans, ex-
tending invitations to the Association to hold its
1922 convention in Cleveland. Among these was
one from the Cleveland Music Trades Associa-
tion.
W. H. Witt, secretary of the National Associa-
tion of Sheet Music Dealers, suggested by letter
that the Association take action whereby pres-
ent overcharging by express companies could
be eliminated, as it was his opinion that many
dealers were being imposed upon by negligent
clerks in express offices. J. M. Priaulx and
George Fisher were appointed a committee to
attend the coming convention of the dealers in
Chicago for the purpose of obtaining more de-
tails regarding this evil. This committee will
report at the annual gathering of the publishers.
Walter Windsor, a well-known production,
vaudeville and cabaret booking agent, purchased
early last week the name, catalog and assets of
the Strand Music Corp., which recently opened
offices at 1658 Broadway, New York.
Mr. Windsor announces that the business will
be continued in its entirety and that an organi-
zation that he is now forming to care for the
publishing end of the business will feature the
song "I Will Give Them Back to You."
A. L. Haase, who was formerly professional
manager of the New York offices of the Mc-
Kinley Publishing Co., has been appointed man-
ager of the Strand Corp. and assumed his new
duties on June 1.
SONGWRITER WINS APPEAL
Appellate Division Grants Injunction to Protect
Royalty Interests of Sam Coslow Pending
Final Decision of Present Action
Sam Coslow, the lyric writer who brought
suit against Joe Ribaud, Joe Gold and Joe Gib-
son, writers of the song "Grieving for You," and
was recently denied a temporary injunction by
the Supreme Court, which would have restrained
Leo Feist, Inc., from paying royalties to the
three writers pending the final judgment in the
suit, won his request on the appeal he made
from the decision to the Appellate Division. The
Appellate Division reversed the order of the
lower court and granted the motion "to the ex-
tent of enjoining the defendant, Leo Feist, Inc.,
from paying over to the individual defendants
DEATH OF JULIUS H. SCHMIDT
one-fourth of the royalties now due or which
Manager of Sheet Music Department of Stone may come due hereafter under their contract
with it, said one-fourth of the royalties to be re-
Piano Co., Fargo, N. D., Passes Away
tained by Feist until the determination of this
FARGO, N. D., May 28.—Julius H. Schmidt, who action."
Coslow, a minor, who sued through a guar-
was in the employ of the Stone Piano Co., this
city, for twenty-one years and manager of the dian, alleged that he wrote the lyric of "Griev-
sheet music department of the company, died ing for You" and sold it to one of the three de-
recently at his home here after an illness of a fendants for $25, they writing the music.
year and a half. He was formerly connected
with Dyer Bros., in St. Paul, and had a host of WILL THEY ALL KNOW THE WORDS?
friends in the Western trade. Mr. Schmidt was
a Mason and for a number of years was organist
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 28.—A resolution
for Shiloh Lodge in Fargo. The funeral serv- directing the "Star-spangled Banner" to be sung
ices were conducted under the auspices of the every day in the House of Representatives im-
lodge, his associates in the Stone Piano Co. act- mediately after the chaplain's prayer was intro-
ing as pallbearers. Interment was made at St. duced this week by Representative Appleby, Re-
Paul, Minn., -the former home of the deceased. publican, of New Jersey.
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DISCUSS ILLINOIS COMPOSERS
CHICAGO, III., May 28.—The Illinois Federation
of Women's Clubs, as contributed to the musi-
cians of the State, on its twenty-sixth convention
at the Drake Hotel, devoted the entire evening
of May 26 to Illinois composers and writers of
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week for Europe, where he intends to spend
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