OCTOBER
20, 1923
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
55
NEW D1TSON CO. PUBLICATIONS
NEW STASNY CO. REPRESENTATIVES
PRIZES FOR PRESSER EMPLOYES
Two Interesting Groups of Piano Compositions
Included in the Latest Offerings of the Oliver
Ditson Co., Boston
Frank Gibney Handling Stasny Catalog on
Pacific Coast With Billy Newsome Rendering
the Same Service in Chicago
Members of Sales Staff Compete in Displaying
Knowledge of Sheet Music Business
.\mon " the recent publi cations of the Ol iv er
l)itson Co., Boston, are included two particu
larly interesting grOUps of plano co mpositions,
Gne a series of fiv e numbers by Arthur Trades
Granfield, and the other a g roup of seven com
positions by Bert R . . \nthony. In the Granfield
series i~ included "Jacquine" (~avotte), "Flora
della," "Val se Impromptu," "Chant d',\mour"
and "Moonlit Waters," while the Anthony group
includes "Song of the Farmer Boy," "Bee in the
Honeysuckle," ''Ln<:le Zeb With His Fiddle,"
"The Old Wooden Clock," ' "Music of the
Brook," "G ho st in the Haunted Room" and
"The O ld Mill \Ai heel."
Arllong other publications i6 "The Je s ter," by
Carl Beecher, for t wo pianos, an d five new com
positions for the organ, including "Early Morn,"
by Homer N. Ba rtlett ; "Caress," by Frederic
G roto n ; "Flotsam," by W. Haydn Cox; "Mat in
Song," by vV-. C. Steere and "Romanza," by
C. W. Lemont.
Frank Gibney, recently con nected w ith J. H.
Remi ck & Co., Seattle, ha s arranged to again
rep resent the catalog of the .\. J. S tasny :'VIusi c
('0. on the Pac ifi c Coas t, making hi s head
quarters in San Francisco. He has a fine tenor
voice and will exploit t he Stas ny featur e num
bers, "Sun-Kist Rose" and "Waltz Me to Sleep
in Your ,\rms" in the theatres and over the
radio. Harry Tobias, New York salesman for
Sta sny , who is now on the Coast, is sending in
goo d orders for various nu mbers in the Stasny
ca talog.
Ri ll y ~ ewsome, formerly connected with
Waterson, Bcrlin & Snyder, a nd Irving Berli n,
Inc., is now representing th e A. J. Sta s ny Co.
cata lo g in Chica~o a nd sur roundin g territory
and is arranging some effe ctive exp loitation
s tunts fnr the varions numbers.
HEARST NUMBERS IN VAUDEVILLE
Being Featured in New Y o·r k Theatres by Sev
eral Well-known Singers
Sevnal of the leading numbers pub li shed by
tbe Hearst Music Publishers, Ltd., hav!" been
featured in va ude ville in New York during the
past week or so. Jack Sherman, well-known
baritone, appea rin g at the \ -alentine Theatre
in the Bronx, sang "\Vonderful Child," "Beau
tiful Rose," "Some Day You' ll Cry Over Some
body Else," "In the Land of Sweet Sixteen."
,\t Loew's Boulevard Theatre Jimmy ~i(oorc
~ang "In the Land of Sweet Sixteen" and "Sollie
Day You'll Cry Over Somebody Else." Norman
::itanlcy announces he will usc seve r:>! nUllIbers.
BROADCASTS FISCHER NUMBERS
Merle Holman, co ncert soprano formerly in
production with Schubert's Varieties, broad
cas ted . last week at Station Vi-'HN at Loew's
State Theatre for Fred Fischer, Inc. She sa ng
"Israr l," "Little Town in t h e Ould County
Down" and "Yo u \ Vanted Some One to Play
\"'it h, T V,' anted Some One to Love."
PHILADFJ.. PHIA, P .\ ., October IS. -Employes' of
the Theodore Pres6er Co. arc still e nj oying in
memory the business family picn ic recently held
at Burlington Island Park on the Upper Dela
ware River, wh ich brought out an atte nd ance
of six hundred. The early evening' return was
by boat. Theodore Presser, head of the firm,
returned from th e hearing of the Federal Trade
Commission in New York 011 the policy oi
placing prices on publications which are not
the bona-fide sales price. He returned ju st in
time to make the awa rd of pri zes to successfu l
compet itors among thc music sales clerks of
th e Presser estab li shment. Generous financial
rewards are hung up for th ose who were most
successful in answerin~ the thirty-two questions
dealing with the handling of music publications
and submitted by the firm to its clerks. There
were forty entrants in the contest, the prize
w inners being, first, John Hou gh ton ; second,
Robert H. Rabe, and third, Frederick W , Beck.
"LA ROSITA" FEATURED AT STRAND
Sam Fox Co. Number Sung by National Male
Qua.rtet as Musical Prologue to the Feature
Film, "The Bad Man," at That Theatre
During the prese ntation of t he feature fi lm ,
"The Had ).ifan," at the Mark Strand Theat re,
JACK MILLS VISITS CANADA TRADE
Jack yIills, president of J ack Mills, Inc., re
turned to New York a few days ago after a ten
day trip through seven important Canad ian
cities in the interest of his company's new
ball ad s uccess, "Jus't a Girl That Men Forget."
Mr. Mills reported t hat the numb er had secured
a stro ng hold in the favor of thc Ca nadian
public
)Jew York, la st week, the new Spanish tango
fox-trot ballad, "La Rosita," by Dupont, one
of the latest successes of the Sam Fox Pub
lishing Co ., was featured as the vocal prologue
to the picture. The number was given an elab
orate setting, with a Mexican Pueblo dwelling
surrounded by cactus in the background, and
the National Male Quartet singi ng the number
were appropriately arrayed in Mexican cos
tu mes.