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THE MUSIC TRADE
OCTOBER 8, 1921
51
REVIEW
wi/h any Jeisf.
desirous of having songs mechanically recorded,
felt that "this was too much," so he announced
Members of Popular Publishing Concerns and Talking Machine Record and Player Roll Men Gather to the assembled gathering that the publisher
in question had a new song which was fast
for Frolic at Glenwood Lodge—Closely Contested Ball Game a Feature
gaining prominence and that they would save
A gathering of popular music publishers and Black's "Who'll Be the Next One" (To Cry themselves time and trouble by hearing his story
in public. The number that raised all this pub-
a number of the members of the recording rooms Over You?).
of several talking machine record and player roll
During the course of the dinner one of the licity is entitled "There's a Bunch of Klucks in
manufacturing organizations held an outing on rising young publishers, who is noted for his the Ku Klux Klan."
Among those who attended were: Ed Bloedon,
Wednesday of last week at Glenwood Lodge, original publicity ideas, was called to the tele-
Glen Head, Long Island.
phone. Upon returning he whispered in the Cliff Hess, Justus Rose, Eddie Adams, Billy
The party met at the quarters of the National ears of those around his table that his office had Jones, Sam Ross, Edward B. Marks, Eliott Sha-
Vaudeville Artists, on West Forty-sixth street, just informed him that they were being swamped piro, Herman Rose, Sam Perry, Frank Wright,
and proceeded to Glenwood Lodge in private by professional singers appealing for his new Harry Blair, Jack Bliss, Donald Fendler, Jack
cars. Upon arriving there a luncheon was song just released. After the third repetition Glogau, Mack Starck, J. Gillespie, Sol Karp, Ed
served, following which a trip was made to the of the story Sam Perry, who has much first-hand Christie, Morris Rosen, Fred Hager, Leo Fried-
baseball grounds, where teams captained by Ed knowledge of the ways of publishers who are man, Jerry Levy and Frank Ferrara.
Bloedon and Jack Bliss played a six-inning ball
game, which resulted in a score of fifteen to four-
NEW INDICTMENTS IN BOSTON INFRINGEMENT CASE
teen in favor of the Bloedon team. The honors
were about even until the last inning, when the August H. Sullivan and Al Feldman Now Under Indictment, Following Previous Indictments Re-
Bliss aggregation failed to tie the score, thus
turned Against Sullivan and C. A. McGlue—Original Case to Be Tried This Month
ending the game. Justus Rose started the pro-
ceedings for the Bloedon outfit by knocking out
Charles A. McGlue, the head of the New Eng- was again indicted, followed by the indictment
a home run which took the Bliss faction a great land Music Co., one of the distributors in East- of Feldman.
length of time to retrieve.
Feldman now threatens to sue those whom he
ern territory, and August H. Sullivan, of
Following the ball game a trip was made to Worcester, Mass., were recently indicted on two claims have persecuted him. This indicates a
the beach and the usual water sports were in- counts by the Federal Grand Jury in Boston for suit against Clara I. Hicks, who operates a dis-
dulged in. Later this was succeeded by indoor violation of a Federal law and for conspiring tributing company in Boston; a suit against the
sports, including the universal pastime, "Put and to violate a Federal law. The charges included United States District Attorney and against
Take," mostly put, at least in the opinion of the pirating a number of song hits, including Sher- E. C. Mills, chairman of the board of directors
writer. In the evening an elaborate dinner was man, Clay & Co.'s "Whispering," Waterson, of the Music Publishers' Protective Associa-
served, which found Joe Smallwood, the host, at Berlin & Snyder's "Bright Eyes" and the Harms, tion, who originally ran down the infringers.
his best. An exclusive entertainment followed Inc., number, "Humming." A large amount of
The Music Publishers' Protective Associatior
the dinner, with the stage set a la Paree. We do the spurious ofopies of "Whispering" were im- is intensively following up all cases of piracy
not know how they do it over in Paris, but if pounded by the authorities. The spurious copies E. C. Mills now has permanently on his staff
they have anything better than the entertain- of "Bright Eyes" could not be found nor the an investigator whose business it is to travel
ment that was furnished by the committee it plates from which they were printed, although about the country locating infringers.
the printers, Goodman Bros., were located and re-
would be in order to call the police.
In addition, Billy Jones and Ernest Hare con- ported that the plates were taken by Sullivan.
tributed several vocal numbers, including the
Sullivan & McGlue were released under heavy
well-known "Home Again Blues" and the newest bail and the trial of the case is scheduled for
Feist number, "Ten Little Fingers and Ten October. However, their indictment did not end
WOLFE GILBERT'S TERRIFIC HIT
Little Toes." One of the lady entertainers sang the game, for shortly after spurious copies of
effectively Witmark's "Crooning" and Johnny "Humming" again were placed upon the market
and Sullivan and a man by the name of Al Feld-
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man, who at times has been associated with
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several publishers, were found to be selling the
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number to the trade for prices ranging from
10 to 14 cents per copy. The United States Dis-
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trict Attorney's office, as a result, placed the
Song
evidence before the Grand Jury and Sullivan
MUSIC PUBLISHERS AND RECORDING MEN HOLD OUTING
BIG SELLING SONGS
DOWN YONDER
GUARANTEED SELLERS!
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Mabel
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You Are the Rose of My Heart
If You Only Knew
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Only A Dream of You
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