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MAY
12, 1923
THE
MUSIC TRADE
BETTER HOMES WEEK CAMPAIGN CLOSELY LINKED
WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE HOME
Week From June 4 to June 10 to Be Observed Nationally—Part of Movement Is National Home
Music Contest—Musical Instrument Manufacturers Co-operating by Providing Prizes for
Event—Will Center Public Interest on Musical Instruments in the Home
A movement, the significance of which is
possibly not appreciated by many members of
the trade, is the National Home Music Contest
supported by the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce and to be conducted by the Ad-
visory Council for Better Homes in America
during Demonstration Week, June 4 to 10.
The significant fact is that the demonstration
for Better Homes in America is national in
scope and model homes will be furnished and
displayed in close to 1,000 cities and towns,
while double that number of communities have
arranged to take part in the celebration of the
week in one form or another. The movement
has been strongly supported by the newspapers,
and the fact that in the model homes this year
and in the literature concerning them a definite
place has been provided for musical instruments
provides a tie-up for the trade the importance
of which cannot be overlooked.
The Home Music Contest, therefore, is being
brought to the attention of the interested public
throughout the country through the medium of
newspaper articles and circulars, and members
of the trade have lent their co-operation by
providing the necessary prizes to stimulate wide
interest in the contest.
The Contest
, Contestants are asked to submit what they
consider to be the ten best numbers of home
music. Each of the ten numbers in the list
submitted by the contestants receives one vote,
and the ten selections from all the lists that
bring in the most votes will constitute the model
list. Prizes will be awarded to those whose
personal lists most closely approximate this
model or key list.
In setting forth the conditions of the contest,
it is stated: "Your vote may include ten names
from sheet music for the piano, violin, or any
other home musical instrument, or from phono-
graph records or from player-piano rolls. The
numbers may be standard, classic, patriotic,
popular, operatic, sacred—whatever you choose.
"The person who names in his or her list
the most of the ten selections receiving the
highest number of votes and in most nearly
the same order as the ten best numbers will
win first prize, the next nearest second prize,
etc. If more than one person should name all
of the numbers in the same order of selection,
or any other tie should occur, then the winners
will be required to write their reasons for the
selection of the ten numbers in not more than
50 words for each number. The Home Music
Contest Committee will then pass upon the
reasons submitted, and will award the prizes in
the order of merit. Do not write reasons with
your vote, or at all unless you are asked to
do so."
The Imposing List of Prizes
The first prize will be a $500 piano, or if de-
sired a $500 allowance toward the purchase of
any piano or player-piano of twenty-one makes
whose manufacturers have agreed to co-operate
in the work, they being:' Acoustigrande, Biddle,
Brambach baby grand, Cable-Nelson, Chicker-
ing, J. & C. Fischer, Gulbransen player, Hard-
man, Hallet & Davis, Haynes Bros., Jacob
Brothers, James & Holmstrom, Wm. Knabe &
Co., Kohler & Campbell, Mansfield Piano Co.,
Mathushek, Milton, Poole, Story & Clark,
Weaver, Wing & Son and York.
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REVIEW
NATIONAL COUNCIL TO APPEAL
Lower Court's Injunction Against Issuance of
Interchangeable Mileage Books to Be Carried
to Supreme Court for Adjudication
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 8.—Counsel for the
National Council of Traveling Salesmen's Asso-
ciations, of which the National Piano Travelers'
The second prize will be a $200 phonograph
or an allowance of $200 for the purchase of a Association is a divisional member, Assistant
more expensive type among the following Attorney General Blackburn Esterline and Chief
makes: Brunswick, Columbia, Edison, Pathe, Counsel Farrell, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, met in this city this week to pre-
Starr, or Victor.
pare an appeal before the United States Su-
In addition there will be ten prizes each of
$25 worth of musical merchandise, including preme Court from the injunction granted by
various makes of music rolls, talking machine the District Court restraining the Interstate
records, sheet music and small goods as fol- Commerce Commission from enforcing its
order to all Class 1 carriers to issue interchange-
lows:
able mileage books to the value of $90 for $72.
Music Rolls.—Connorized, Q R S, United
The National Council, in a statement, declares
States.
Phonograph Records.—Brunswick, Columbia, that the injunction in question was made pos-
Edison, Gennett, Odeon, Okeh, Pathe, Victor. sible by mutual understanding that the hearing
Sheet Music, Music publications, etc. — would be final in the District Court, so that
l'oosey & Co., John Church Co., Carl Fischer, time and expense might be saved to bring the
Fred Fisher, Inc., J. Fischer & Bro., Harold matter up for final adjudication before the Su-
Flammer, Gamble Hinged Music Co., Hinds, preme Court. The announcement that the in-
Hayden & Eldridge, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., junction was permanent has caused some dis-
couragement, the statement goes on, but there
Inc., G. Schirmer, Inc.
Small Goods.—Violin, Guitar,
Mandolin, is no reason for this, since the true situation
does not justify it. The Interstate Commerce
Ukulele, Harmonica, Saxophone, Accordion,
Commission, despite the injunction, has placed
Cornet, Drums, Strings, etc.—C. Bruno & Son,
the date for the issuance of these books as
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, C. G. Conn, Ltd., Gib-
January 1, 1923, showing that it does not con-
son Musical String Co., Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co.,
sider the issue closed, but simply continues its
M. Hohner, Leedy Mfg. Co., Lyon & Healy, order until such time as the Supreme Court will
C. Meisel, Inc.
have had time to review the lower court's order.
It is the belief of those back of the contest
Former United States Senator Hoke Smith,
that it will serve to center the interest of the
who
represented the Council, in commenting on
public on the inclusion of musical instruments in
the decision, stated: "The Court sustained our
the Better Homes displays and thus prove of
contention that the action of Congress must be
direct benefit to the retail music merchant.
upheld as constitutional. The injunction was
The contest committee was made up of Mrs.
predicated on technicalities, in which we think
John F. Lyons, president of the National Fed-
the Court erred in its construction of the Act
oration of Music Clubs; Mrs. Anne F. Obern-
of Congress and the Commission's subsequent
dorfer, music chairman, National Federation of
order. Immediate steps will be taken to appeal
Women's Clubs; C. M. Tremaine, director Na- the case and we are more than confident of
tional Bureau for Advancement of Music, and our ultimate success."
Kenneth S. Clark, director Bureau of Coni-
munitv Music.
WITH KINNEY BROS. & SIPPRELL
CHICKERING CONCERT IN PORTLAND
EVERETT, WASH., May 5.—C. C. Clark, formerly
PORTLAND, ME., May 9.—Under the auspices of
the Miller & Hunt Co., of this city, Germaine
Schnitzer, the well-known pianist, appeared in
concert here to-night at Frye Hall, in celebra-
tion of the centennial of the House of Chicker-
ing. Mme. Schnitzer, who was assisted by the
Ampico piano, played to a capacity audience
and both she and the Ampico won an ovation.
manager for Sherman, Clay & Co., in Seattle,
has recently taken the position of sales man-
ager for the music house of Kinney Bros. &
Sipprell. Before coming West three years ago
Clark was with the piano department of John
Wanamaker in Philadelphia.
HAHNE TO OPENJN^ PERTH AMBOY
The New York School of Music & Arts, New
York, Ralfe Leech Sterner, director, arranged
a series of concerts during New York's Music
Week, April 29 to May 5, using the Mehlin
concert grand. This well-known school of music
is equipped exclusively with Mehlin pianos.
Hahne & Co., the Newark department store,
will shortly open a branch music store in Perth
Amboy, N. J., carrying pianos, player-pianos
and Victrolas.
MEHLIN IN SCHOOL SERIES
For over 25 years Specialists
in high grade Piano Cases
Paterson Piano
Case Co.
PATERSON, N. J.