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THE
JUNE 11, 1921
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
nominal fee, which would then be divided with
the composer. This was done in the present
Elaborate New Department Opened in the Big Publishers Explain Character of Long-pending case, and accountings were made of such sums
Store of Braunstein & Blatt
as were received by the publisher.
Litigation Over "Sweet Bye and Bye"
"The plaintiffs claimed that no right to do
Jerome H. Remick & Co. recently opened a
Following the settlement of the long-pending so existed, regardless of the universal custom of
new music department in the large department suit over the publication of "Sweet Bye and the trade, and this was the main ground of their
store of Braunstein & Blatt, Atlantic City, N. J. Bye," as reported in The Review last week, the claim in the suit just settled. The master to
This is a modern structure in every respect and Oliver Ditson Co., the defendant in the action, whom it was referred found that no rights had
been violated by the publisher in granting such
the new Remick department is situated in con- has issued the following statement:
spicuous quarters of the store.
"The newspaper reports of the settlement of licenses and certain of his findings were ob-
The department is one of the most efficiently the equity suit of the heirs of Joseph P. Webster jected to by the plaintiffs.
arranged in the country and its equipment, is such vs. Oliver Ditson Co., in regard to the song,
"Rather than have the matter drag along for
'Sweet Bye and Bye,' another generation both parties came together
were, as Mark Twain and made an amicable adjustment of such items
said of the reports of as were still in dispute, and the defendant paid
his own death, great- a sum much smaller than that given out by the
press, a greater part of the payment actually
ly exaggerated.
' ' T h i s litigation made being made up of accrued interest on the
has been pending items adjusted.
very many years and
"It is contemplated that a souvenir edition of
the defendant, as the more famous works of Joseph P. Wgbster
well as others, was may be published in the near future, which will
getting tired of it. It include the 'Sweet Bye and Bye' and other pieces
was a curious claim which were popular many years ago."
in many ways; it
seems that the de-
ANOTHER NEW COMPOSER
fendant h a d pub-
lished the piece for New Song by Ray Perkins in Catalog of Edward
Section of Remick Department Opened at Atlantic City
B. Marks Music Co.
that it attracts unusual attention. We are here- many years, having taken the same over from
with reproducing a photograph of a portion of another publisher who had first brought it out
A recent addition to the catalog of the Edward
the department in question and it can be readily in 1868, and whose records were, unfortunately,
B. Marks Music Co. is the work of a clever
seen that the arrangements have been made with meagre, due probably to the fact that most of
its books had been destroyed in the great Chi- young lyricist, Ray Perkins, who will, without
an idea to attract sales.
The department is now featuring the Remick cago fire. The defendant had purchased out- doubt, be heard from frequently in popular music
numbers, "Broken Moon," "Happiness," "Ain't right the interest of the person who had written circles. His ballad, "Held Fast in a Baby's
We Got Fun?" "Without You," "Rose," "Now the words, and therefore made an accounting Hands," combines a sweet, clean combination of
I Lay Me Down to Sleep," "Dearest One" and only to the composer of the music, paying him story, melody and harmony that is meeting pub-
one-half of the agreed royalty for the words and lic approval. It is a song of the fireside and
"Guessing."
music together.
home, a type of number that almost always has
"Thirty or forty years ago, especially before universal appeal. It has also been arranged in
Roy Thornton has been transferred from the
Chicago to the New York branch of the Broad- the international copyright law, it was an almost fox-trot dance form that possesses much charm.
way Music Corp. The vacancy in the Chicago universal custom among music publishers to
branch has been filled by Irving Ullman, who grant to others licenses, or permits, to publish
A big hit is being scored by the Creole Fashion
a copyrighted piece upon the payment of a Plate with the new Leo Feist song, "Cherie."
formerly represented the firm in Philadelphia.
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