Music Trade Review

Issue: 1922 Vol. 74 N. 20

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MAY
20, 1922
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
P. Q. SPITZ BECOMES MANAGER
VICTOR ARTISTSTOR BIG CONCERT
Takes Charge of the Victrola Department of
the J. L. Brandeis Store
Homer, Schumann-Heink, Samaroff, Werren-
rath and Symphony Orchestra to Entertain
Convention Visitors at Carnegie Hall.
OMAHA, NEH., May 15.—P. G. Spitz, the well-
known talking machine man, has assumed
charge of the Victrola department of the J. L.
Brandeis Store, this city. Mr. Spitz is popular
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One of the big entertainment features in con-
nection with the annual convention of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce and the allied
music trade associations in New York during the
week of June 5 will be the complimentary con-
cert given at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening,
June 5, by the Victor Talking Machine Co., for
the benefit of the convention delegates.
C. G. Child, director of recording for the Vic-
tor Co., who has charge of the program, has
arranged for a truly imposing group of artists
on that occasion, they including Mine. Louise
Homer, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Olga
Samaroff, Reinald Werrcnrath and the Victor
Symphony Orchestra of eighty men under the
baton of Josef Pasternack. All of the conven-
tion visitors will be provided with tickets for
the concert, which will unquestionably prove one
of the big attractions.
to double
Vourlneome
COLUMBIA DEALERS IN POLITICS
Retailers in Philadelphia Territory F.'nd Time to
Take Interest in Public Affairs
Peter G. Spitz
with the talking machine trade throughout
Nebraska and Iowa, and was the first president
of the Iowa Victor Dealers' Association. He is
generally known as a "live wire" and his identi-
fication with the Brandeis Victrola department
promises greatly increased activity there.
TROY DEALERS ^JOINTLY ADVERTISE
Fine Display Made During Music Week by Lead-
ing Houses in Concerts and Publicity
TROY, N. Y., May IS.—The piano and talking
machine dealers of this city celebrated Music
Week with a strikingly arranged joint advertise-
ment in the daily papers of May 3, the center of
which consisted of some impressive and interest-
ing disquisitions on the various phases of music
and its importance. During the week the vari-
ous music houses gave a number of entertain-
ments, and Cluett & Sons especially had a Vo-
calion concert every afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m.
On May 3 the Misses Nellie and Sara Kouns,
sopranos, appeared with the Troy Vocal Society
and the singing of these exclusive Vocalion artists
was enthusiastically received. Their appearance
in the Cluett store resulted in a greatly increased
demand for their records. Troy was certainly
placed on the map during Music Week, thanks to
the enterprise of its music merchants.
T. B. N1LES NOW IN NEW YORK
T. B. Niles, who has been connected as assist-
ant manager of the Pittsburgh branch of the
Columbia Graphophonc Co., has been transferred
to Columbia headquarters in New York. Mr.
Niles comes to New York to take active charge
of special sales work and will from now on edit
the Columbia Record, the well-known house or-
gan which is sent out to dealers. Mr. Niles'
transfer to the New York office is in the way of
promotion, through the good work which, he has
dene while in the Pittsburgh branch, and he is
well qualified to take over these new duties.
DELAWARE INCORPORATION
The Globe Wholesale & Distributing Co., of
Wilmington, Del., has been granted a charter of
incorporation under the laws of that State to
handle talking machines.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 15.—At least two Colum-
bia dealers who are supplied through the local
branch of the Columbia Co. have time between
business deals to dabble in politics, according to
E. D. Woodward, sales representative of the
Philadelphia Columbia branch.
Frank E. Naginey, of Bellefonte, Pa., is run-
ning for the Assembly on the Democratic ticket
and it is declared that he has very good prospects
of winning out. S. E. Heffner, of Hilton &
Heffner, Columbia dealers in Lock Haven, Pa.,
is also an active politician, being chairman of the
Pinchot Campaign Committee in Pennsylvania.
and the proposition could be proved
sound from every angle, you wouldn't
hesitate, would you? Of course not,
but do you realize that a talking machine
department can be made to provide
sufficient revenue to take care of the
overhead on your entire establishment ?
Thousands of other retail music
chants have proved the above made
statement true and thousands of retail
music merchants have looked to T h e
Talking Machine World for guidance
in the matter of selecting the make of
talking machines they would handle, the
way they would map out their talking
machine department, etc.
FRIEDL ENTERSJliE RADIO FIELD
Well-known Talking Machine Man Forms the
Triangle Radio Supply Co. in New York
Lambert Friedl, who has long been connected
with sales organizations of some of the leading
talking machine companies, recently organized
the Triangle Radio Supply Co., Inc., and has
opened up offices and warerooms at 122 Fifth
avenue, New York City.
Mr. Friedl recently resigned as manager of
the Okeh wholesale division of the General
Phonograph Corp. _ Prior to that time he was
connected in an executive capacity with the
Columbia Graphophone Co.
Associated with Mr. Friedl is H. A. Lindc,
who for over five years was with Stanley &
Patterson, the well-known New York electrical
supply house. Mr. Linde has many qualifica-
tions for his field of activities. He was, during
the war, an instructor of radio for the United
States Navy at Harvard University.
The Triangle Radio Supply Co., Inc., will
act as jobber of radio apparatus and its com-
ponent parts. These goods, however, are to
be specially selected and of proven worth, the
object being to place in the hands of the trade
products having a ready sale and requiring little
or no technical knowledge. However, the com-
pany will carry out an educational campaign
for the dealer and is equipped, if necessary,
to give technical advice.
Among the products to be handled by the
new company are the radiophones of the De
Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co.;
equipment of the Stromberg-Carlson Co.; the
Brach Electric Co., the Atlantic & Pacific
Vacuum Tubes, and products of De Veau Elec-
tric Works and Cutting & Washington.
H. W. Lunceford, for the past two years sales-
manager of the Starr Piano Co.'s store at Tampa,
Fla., will have complete charge of the company's
new store at 1504 Grand Central avenue, that
city.
The Talking Machine World is the
oldest and largest trade journal in the
world devoted exclusively to the talking
machine industry.
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373 Fourth Ave., New York City.
Please enter my subscription for one year. I want to
learn how to double my income via a talking machine
department. Bill me $2 at your convenience to cover cost
of same.
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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MAY 20, 1922
INTKBWORLD
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
BOSTON MUSIC PUBLISHERS HOLD MEETING AND DINNER
SONGS THAT SELL
Well-attended Gathering Held in Boston Last Friday the Last of the Present Season—Urge Estab-
lishment of Civic Center—Fake Composing and Other Trade Topics Discussed
BOSTON, MASS., May 13.—The last dinner of the
season of the Boston Music Publishers' Asso-
ciation was held Friday evening at the Parker
House, with thirty-five sitting around the board,
and with Walter M. Bacon, the president, presid-
ing. Following the usual good dinner there was
a free discussion of a number of matters pertain-
ing to music, one of which was the need that
exists here for a real civic building with a first-
class organ, a building that will be capable of
accommodating a large number of persons and
which would be available for concerts, recitals,
conventions and lectures, and where the ad-
mission fee would be nominal. It was argued,
primarily by I. H. Odell, a veteran in the music
profession of Boston, that Boston is far behind
other cities in having available places and he in-
stanced the difficulty of finding suitable quarters
where the People's Symphony Orchestra and
the People's Choral Union could give their con-
certs and where only a low price of admission
would be charged. This discussion led to a
consideration of the disposition of the $7,000,000
George White fund, left for the benefit of the
city a few months ago. Among the restrictions
which hedged it about was one that it should
not be used for educational purposes. It was
pointed out that as a civic memorial there could
be nothing better than a big hall which could
house a fine organ which would be a source of
entertainment for the masses. A resolution was
accordingly drafted which was endorsed by the
Association and sent to the trustees of the White
fund, urging that such a building, which would
be of wide benefit, be given consideration.
William Arms Fisher, of the Oliver Ditson Co.,
called attention, in elaborating on the fact that
Boston is far behind other cities in fostering
music for the common people, to Davenport, la.,
as a place that was far ahead of Boston. He said
that on a Western trip he had stopped over in
that city and was surprised to find what they
had there by way of facilities for musical enter-
tainment of the highest order, and he said, too,
that even their motion picture houses were be-
yond anything he had seen in Boston.
Mr. Fisher, at another point of the evening's
program, deplored the promiscuous advertising
that is done in reputable publications of men who
claim to set anyone's words to music—fake com-
posers, he claimed them. He said that he had
been giving a good deal of study to what he at
the outset styled the "Jesse James Music Co.,"
and he gave some statistics which he had gath-
Irving Berlin's Latest,
Greatest Song Hit
ered from Washington. Taking fourteen lead-
ing music publishing houses whose standing was
unquestioned, he said they had had copyrighted
during 1920 2,750 items of music. Fourteen lead-
ing "shark" concerns had entered for copyright
7,847 items. Mr. Fisher outlined their methods
of procedure in getting a person's money, and he
added that there was scarcely a week that he
was not approached by some person who had
had some unfortunate business dealings with
these fakers.
Other matters discussed were the selling at
low prices of music by the chain stores, on which
E. C. Mills, of New York, contributed a lengthy
paper, the effect of the radio craze on the music
industry and the subjects which are to come up
at the sheet music dealers' annual meeting, which
were taken up in the form of a questionnaire.
Some Sunny Day
Granny
You're My Mammy's Mammy
Tuck Me lo Slee0 In My Old
Tucky Home
Poor Little Me
You Can Have [very Light On Broadway
(Give Me One Little Light at Home)
Kicky-Koo-
E. C. MILLS IN WASHINGTON
Lonesome Hours
Attends Hearing on Proposed Change in Copy-
right Law Held This Week
E. C. Mills, chairman of the board of the
Music Publishers' Protective Association, spent
the latter part of last week and early this week
in Washington, D. C. On Monday of this week
he attended the hearing before a committee of
Congress on the bill presented by Congressman
Lampert of Wisconsin, which involves an effort
to change the copyright law, which now gives
the owners of musical compositions the right
to collect the performing rights fees.
The bill has the support of the Moving Pic-
ture Theatre Owners of America, who held their
annual convention in Washington last week and
who wanted a hearing on the bill at that time.
However, through the efforts of the Publishers'
Association a postponement was made until two
days after the gathering of the motion picture
interests.
While in Washington, Mr. Mills was honored
by an invitation to the White House.
I Wonder Where He Went
And When He's Coming Back Blues
Universal Dance Folio No. 2
Say It With Music
From the Music
Gallagher and Shean, the well-known vaude-
ville team, the biggest attraction of the pres-
ent year, authors of the song "Mr. Gallagher and
Mr. Shean," have returned to New York after
a triumphant tour of the Middle West. Jack
Mills, Inc., New York, publishes "Mr. Gallagher
and Mr. Shean."
MR. DEALER! These Numbers Are Advertised
By the Composer who wrote "Dangerous Blues."
The feature song of the biggest Blues and Jazz
singers, and the orchestra favorite Fox Trot.
Box Revue
Everybody Step
From the Muiie Box Revut
They Call It Dancing
From the Music Box Ravu*
The Melody Song Hit 08 the Year
Just a Little Love Song
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
1607 Broadway,
NEW JACK jVULLS NUMBER
LONESOME MAMA BLUES
-Klcky-Koo
You for Me—Me lor You
New York
RETURN FROM TRIP
Richard Powers, Eastern manager o f Sher-
man, Clay & Co., and Eddie Van, his assistant,
returned last week from their trip through Penn-
sylvania territory, where they exploited the
firm's song's, "Rosemary," "Tennessee Moon"
and "You Won't Be Sorrv."
From Coast to Coast
SUPPOSE THE ROSE WERE YOU
By Lucien Denni.
He wrote "Starlight Love."
Kitty Gordon's knock-out Hit.
Hundreds of other acts using it.
Make Your Profit—Have Them in Stock!
OTHER BIG SELLERS
12TH STREET RAG-Song
DANGEROUS BLUES
12TH STREET RAG—Instrumental
MANILA MEMORIES
KISS ME DEAR
J. W. JENKINS' SONS MUSIC CO.
Kansas City, Mo.

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