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NOVEMBER 26,
THE
1921
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
FRED COOTS JVITH SHUBERTS
TO PROTECT COMPOSERS' RELATIVES
J. Fred Coots, who for the past five years has
been connected with the New York office of the
McKinley Music Co., recently severed his con-
nections with that organization and has closed
a contract to write exclusively for Lee and J. J.
Shubert. Mr. Coots is the writer of "Mickey
O'Neil," brother song to "Peggy O'Neil," and
other successful works. The latter is pub-
lished by Leo Feist, Inc.
Relatives of Famous Composers May Receive
Fortunes in Royalties if New Bill Proposed
by French Parliament Becomes Effective
PARIS, FRANCE, November 12.—The relatives of
Wagner, Chopin, Liszt and other composers
long dead, as well as their heirs of the last cen-
tury, may come into large fortunes if the law
providing for the continuance of "artistic
rights" in succession to estates passes the
French Parliament.
The idea has often been mooted, but rarely
has been taken so seriously as it is now, forty
Deputies having given approval to the bill.
This is believed to be the first step toward the
formation of a special artistic section in the
French commercial code. Apart from giving
authors the right to claim 1 per cent of all
sales of their works between the value of 50
and 10,000 francs, the rights would be extended
to their widows, children and grandchildren on
the theory that much of the world's greatest
music and art are unappreciated by their own
generations and are sold at ridiculous prices to
bargaining merchants, who alone derive profits
which should be shared with the artist's heirs.
"MISSISSIPPI CRADLE" GOING BIG
New F. J. A. Forster Song Increasing in Popu-
larity Throughout the Country
ALJOLSON'S
Sensational Song Success
Composed and featured
by himself in his latest
production
BOMBO
While the sale of "Mississippi Cradle" is, at
this writing, a long way from the general monthly
average established by "Missouri Waltz," it is
almost double for the first forty days of its exploi-
tation of what the famous Logan number offered
at its start.
F. J. A. Forster, the publisher, states that he
hardly hopes to surpass "Missouri Waltz," but
he is sitting tight and hoping big hopes. If the
activity continues for six months he will have
another record-breaker. Canada comes through
as a distinct surprise on "Mississippi Cradle."
Leaders seem impelled to write in their praise
and these letters are extremely enthusiastic and
tell of the warm reception the number receives
from our over-the-line cousins.
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OFFICIAL SONG_FOR MUSIC WEEK
"Oregon," by Cecil Teague, Selected as Official
Song for Portland Celebration
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1658 BROADWAY
PORTLAND, ORE., November 19.—The committee of
Music Week has adopted "Oregon," by Cecil
Teague, as the official song for Music Week,
which will be held the week of November 27
to December 4. The new, snappy booster song,
"When You Come to Oregon," by L. Carroll
Day, is also very popular.
The sheet music department of Lipman, Wolfe
& Co., presided over by Kathleen Benoit Camp-
bell, has just received a large shipment of popu-
lar songs from Boosey & Co., which, she says,
represents a wonderful collection. Among them
are: "Love Me or Not" and "Bogies," by Wil-
fred Sanderson; "Big Lady Moon," "The Rain-
bow Child" and the Homer Samuels song, "The
Little White Boat"; "Spring," the Herscheil num-
ber, and "The World Can't Go Around Without
You," by Dorothy Jardon.
Portland was recently visited by Sam Fox, of
the Sam Fox Publishing Co., of New York, and
his visits to the several music departments of
the city were favored by large orders for his
publications, including "Somewhere in Naples,"
"Teach Me" and "Wonderland in Dreams" and
many standard instrumental numbers of the Sam
Fox catalog, including "Sparklets" and "Nola."
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CHAPPELL & CO. HEAD IN NEW YORK
William Boosey, managing director of Chap-
pell & Co., London, England, arrived in New
York late last week. Mr. Boosey, it is under-
stood, will spend several weeks in New York
and will make a short trip to Canada to visit the
trade.
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