Music Trade Review

Issue: 1922 Vol. 75 N. 12

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SEPTEMBER 16, 1922
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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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ASSOCIATION BOOK READY SOON
SOUSA USING FOX NUMBERS
BUYS REMICK STOCK IN CINCINNATI
Secretary Donlan, of National Association of
Sheet Music Dealers, Prepares Interesting
Volume for Members—Working Actively to
Build Up the Membership in That Body
Famous Bandmaster Includes Many Fox Pub-
lications in His Concert Programs
Willis Music Co. Takes Over Stock of Fair De-
partment and Moves It to Arcade Song Shop
and to the Company's Main Store
Thomas J. Donlan, secretary of the National
Association of Sheet Music Dealers, announces
that he has completed the compilation of a
booklet for distribution among the members of
that body setting forth in some detail the past
accomplishments of the organization, and offer-
ing a number of suggestions for the future ac-
tivities of the Association. The book is now in
the hands of the printers and it is expected that
it will be mailed to the membership within a
very few weeks.
The drive for new members for the Associa-
tion is being carried on most actively and the
travelers representing the various publishing
houses are particularly energetic in their efforts
to bring dealers into the fold. At the present
time Emil Pflock, of the Boston Music Co.,
stands first in the number of new members
secured since the last convention and a substan-
tial prize will be given to the traveler who
establishes the high record before the 1923
convention.
At the present time, in co-operation with
the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, with which the National Association
of Sheet Music Dealers affiliated recently,
there is being carried on an active cam-
paign, largely through means of publicity, to
combat the activities of fraudulent publishers
who prey upon ambitious amateur songwriters.
The Post Office Department has evinced much
interest in the movement and has promised to
co-operate in the prosecution of such publishers.
The Edward B. Marks Music Co. is the pub-
lisher of a new song entitled "Susan." The
number is by Vaughn De Leath and Harold
Burg.
Sam Fox, of the Sam Fox Pub. Co., attended
some of the concerts of Sousa and his band
now being given in the Willow Grove Audi-
torium at Willow Grove, Pa. Sousa is playing
a series of Fox numbers this season and the
Fox Co. is the publisher of his "Gallant
Seventh."
Miss Kathryn Joyce, manager of the New
York office of the Sam Fox Pub. Co., received
the following telegram from Mr. Fox:
"Returning to New York Wednesday full of
music and joy. Every encore to-day a Fox
publication. Sousa and soloist made the audi-
ence and myself happy by playing 'Gallant Sev-
enth,' 'Swanee Smiles,' 'On the Campus,' 'Only
a Smile,' 'Nola,' 'Comrades of the Legion,'
'Romany Love,' 'Eleanor,' 'Sabre and Spurs,'
'Out of the Dusk,' 'I Love a Little Cottage'
and Sousa's new suite, 'Leaves From My Note-
book.' Have had most enjoyable day."
MORRISON CO. OPENS OFFICES
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., September 11.—The Morri-
son Music Co. has opened up professional and
business offices in the Pantages Theatre Build-
ing, this city, and announces the following new
songs: "That's Why" and "In Sunny Spain."
E. F. B1TNER RETURNS
Edgar ' F. Bitner, general manager of Leo
Feist, Inc., returned late this week, following
his usual Fall trade trip to the Middle West.
Mr. Bitner stayed several days in Detroit, fol-
lowed by a short stay in Chicago.
Clyde Doer and his Club Royal Orchestra are
to play in the Congress Hotel, Chicago, 111.,
during the Fall months.
CINCINNATI, O., September 11.—The Willis Mu-
sic Co., well-known local music publisher and
dealer, has purchased the stock of music of Jer-
ome H. Remick & Co. at the Fair Department
Store, this city. Most of the popular produc-
tion and ballad stock has been removed to the
Willis Co.'s Arcade Song Shop, 17 Arcade, and
the standard stock will be handled from the
company's main store at 137 West Fourth street.
Ben Ryle, who has been in charge of the
Remick department at the Fair for a number of
years, will take over the management of the Ar-
cade Song Shop. Miss Harriet Dorr has been
added to the Willis retail department as an as-
sistant in the special Teachers' Service Bureau.
MRS. A. J. STASNY RETURNS
Wife of Prominent Publisher Back From Euro-
pean Trip
Mrs. A. J. Stasny, of the A. J. Stasny Music
Co., who for the past few months has been tour-
ing Europe, accompanied by her husband, re-
turned to New York on September 1. Mr. Stas-
ny, however, will continue his stay in England
for a short period. Besides the operating of a
London music publishing firm, which has nu-
merous branches in various parts of the British
Isles, the Stasny Co. is operating several music
stores.
BIESE TO ENTER VAUDEVILLE
Paul Biese, the well-known orchestra leader,
songwriter and record artist, who has been play-
ing an engagement in the Beaux Arts Cafe,
Atlantic City, will, following the close of that
engagement, appear in vaudeville.
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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
SEPTEMBER
16,
1922
Featured by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra in George White's "Scandals
The New WangWangBlues ^
Jbu the same writer.
"WILD IRISH ROSE" FEATURED
Witmark & Sons Number Featured in Connec-
tion With Film of Same Name
The window display illustrated here was
shown by the Denver Music Co., Denver, Colo.,
by special arrangement with J. L. Mann, Denver
representative of M. Witmark & Sons. "My
Wild
Irish
Rose,"
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featured, w a s
Sons catalog for a long period, the fact that
there was a photoplay carrying the same title
did much to revive interest and sales in this
song success.
STRANSKY ON RAGTIME
Prominent Conductor Says Ragtime Is Pecu-
liarly American in Origin
Joseph Stransky, well-known conductor, talk-
ing for publication on the subject of ragtime,
recently said: "We cannot afford to overlook
ragtime as it is related to American music. A
good many people are wont to depreciate its
value just because it is popular. That is the
very reason we cannot overlook it. It is the
people who originate the type of all national
music. America has as yet developed no charac-
teristic music of its own, but if we wish to
search for the source from which this evolution
will spring we shall not find it in the works of
native musicians no matter how talented they
are, if they derive their inspiration from com-
posers of other lands. The first thing signifi-
cant in the development of national music is
rhythm, and ragtime is still America's rhythm."
SAM FOX IN NEW YORK
Attractive Display of M. Witmark & Sons
given tin's unusual publicity in conjunction with
the presentation at the Isis Theatre of the Vita-
graph photoplay of the same name.
The window in question is most artistically
arranged and shows "My Wild Irish Rose" in
sheet music, record and music roll form, the
Brunswick and Columbia records and the Q R S
music rolls of the number being artistically
placed in the display. "My Wild Irish Rose,"
in picture form, has been quite successful, play-
ing during the past few months in all parts of
the country, and although the composition is
not by any means new, having been part of the
Black and White Series of the M. Witmark &
Visits Manhattan Headquarters Prior to Starting
for the Coast
Sam Fox, head of the Sam Fox Pub. Co.,
spent a few days at the New York offices of "his
firm during the latter part of the week. Mr.
Fox was scheduled for a visit to the Pacific
Coast, but this has been delayed owing to the
fact that the Fox catalog is showing unusual
activity and this has brought up a great number
of details in relation to the sales and exploita-
tion. The number of successes in this season's
Fox catalog, which includes fox-trots, ballads,
novelties, was never larger.
THE BRITISH MARKET
Free-lance Songwriters Finding Good Field for
Their Compositions in England
LONDON, ENGLAND, September 5.—With the popu-
lar song business in the sad state it now is as far
as it concerns the free-lance writer, there is a
decided likelihood American songsters may turn
to England as a haven of financial recuperation.
The British public for long has been receptive
to American popular songs and songwriters.
Nat D. Ayer had one hit to his credit in America
at the time he took up residence in London.
Now he is one of the foremost popular song
and revue writers. The Two Bobs (Bob Alden
and Bob Adams) fifteen years ago were song
pluggers for Remick. They are now of the
foremost writers and comedians in England.
Pete Bernard, a popular British comedian, is
cashing in on this angle just now by suddenly
entering the music publishing business with a
catalog of songs that Jack Mahoney has mailed
him from New York. They are comedy tunes
and reported in great demand over there be-
cause of their lyrical value, with the result
Mahoney has been ordered to write some fifteen
to twenty extra choruses to each song.
For some reason, the songwriters argue, the
publisher doesn't know what the public wants.
There, are so many of them and their argu-
ments are so decided that this accusation against
a firm that is supposed to be the go-between the
public and the songwriters must be considered.
They point out that despite all the "blues"
and dance hits, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Theodore
Presser, of Pittsburgh, G. Schirmer, Ditson and
other standard publishers report big trade.
One objector to the craze for dance tunes
states that the public doesn't hear tunes any
more; they hear arrangements. When a pros-
pective purchaser is struck with a Whiteman
recording he or she finds the sheet music copy
differs radically.
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