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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 3, 1921
THE BIG HIT FROM TANGERINE
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A CATCHY MELODY YOU CAN'T FORGET
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AN UNUSUAL TRIBUTE TO THE SUCCESS OF A SONG
STAMPING CANADIAN IMPORTS
"Say It With Music," New Berlin Hit, Creates Sensation on Pacific Coast Before the Opening of
the Show of Which It Is a Part—A Telegram That Sets an Interesting Precedent
All Music Brought Into the Dominion Must
Bear the Wording "Printed in the U. S. A."
The accompanying reproduction of a tele-
gram received last week by Irving Berlin, Inc.,
from Edward P. Little, manager of the music
department of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Fran-
cisco, represents a unique and, at the same time,
forceful endorsement of a song number by one
Regarding the recent ruling of the Canadian
Government under the customs act that all
goods imported into that country should be
plainly stamped or marked with the place of
origin, E. C. Mills, chairman of the executive
board of the Music Publishers' Protective Asso-
ciation, has sent out the following circular to the
members of that Association:
We have now secured a ruling from the De-
partment of Customs and Inland Revenue of
Canada (File 104481, August 16, 1921) as to
whether or not notice of copyright in the U. S. A.
and of proprietorship thereof by a firm in the
U. S. A. would be held as sufficient evidence that
music was printed in the U. S. A. For the in-
formation of members, the Department's reply is
quoted in full:
"Referring to your inquiry of the 12th instant,
I beg to advise you that the sample sheet of
music submitted is not marked in compliance
with the law governing the marking of goods
with the indication of the country of origin.
"In order to comply with the regulations estab-
lished in this connection, music or other publica-
tions require to be marked 'printed in the U. S.
A.' or 'made in U. S. A.,' or other country, as
the. case may be."
Accordingly, please take note that it will be
necessary that all music printed in the U. S. A.
and shipped to Canada on and after October 1
must have imprinted upon it the words "Printed
in the U. S. A.," and it is respectfully suggested
that each member read the copy of the Canadian
Customs Act wiiich accompanied our circular of
August 10.
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leaders have done the same thing, with the
result that there is a big demand for the song,
even though no copies or orchestrations have
yet been printed.
Not long ago Art Hickman, noted orchestra
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Telegram From E. P. Little Characterizing New Berlin Number a Natural Hit
Music" at a dance and made an immediate hit.
who is not only well acquainted, as a jobber and
dealer, with the possibilities of a song, but is About five weeks ago Rudy Wiedoeft began an
in the real sense of the word a competing pub- engagement at a big Los Angeles hotel and
also featured the chorus of the number with
lisher.
The telegram is the culmination of some in- the same result.
Copies of the song will be placed on sale
teresting developments in connection with the
song, "Say It With Music," by Irving Berlin, at the time of the opening of the show.
which is the big feature of Mr. Berlin's show,
"The Music Box Review," which opens at the
BIG FALL TRADE COMING
Music Box Theatre, New York, on September
19.
Arthur D. Orcutt, a composer and publisher
The number was written about six months of Detroit, Mich., who during the past year has
ago and one evening, at the Sixty Club, New been carrying on a freelance jobbing business,
York, Harry Akst, Mr. Berlin's personal accom- in a recent letter to The Review states that there
panist, happened to play over the chorus. He is bound to be a Fall boom in sheet music.
was immediately besieged by several prominent He finds the dealers' stocks are practically de-
orchestra leaders present for orchestrations of pleted and it will be necessary for them to order
the number, but they were all turned down be- goods in order to carry on the Fall business.
cause it was restricted to the show.
,
Jack Mills has arranged to publish all the
One of the orchestra leaders, however, re-
membered the air and upon his return home piano solos by "Zez" Confrey, who has won
made a lead sheet of it and taught it to his much success recording for the Q R S music
orchestra. Since then a dozen or more other rolls and Brunswick phonograph records.
NO RETAIL STORES FOR FEIST
Prominent Publisher Announces That He Has
No Intention of Entering Retail Field
Leo Feist, Inc., has just forwarded a letter to the
music dealers of the country announcing that the
Feist organization has no interest in any chain
of retail stores, nor any contemplated chain or
any individual stores.
During the past few months there have been a
number of rumors afloat to the effect that the
music publishers, as an association, or several
of the leaders of the industry, did propose en-
tering into the retail sheet music field, and the
Feist announcement is to eliminate its name from
any such reports.
The letter, signed by Leo Feist, president of
the company, states that, furthermore, it is its
contention that there are already enough dealers
in the country to advantageously and success-
ful'^ handle any demands for popular prints
and the Feist organization, appreciating this fact
and the representation and co-operation it has
received from the trade, makes a statement of a
permanent character regarding such proposals.