Music Trade Review

Issue: 1923 Vol. 77 N. 18

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FEATURING "THAT OLD GANG"
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Showing Devoted to Berlin Number
One of the most artist ic windo\\ displays con­
fining ilself to a single song and carrying out
exclusively to the Irving- Berlin, Inc., numb er,
"That Old Gang of Mine." Carrying out the
idea of the lyrics of the song, a painted back­
ground showing a corner in a town with an
old-fashioned lamp-post in an appropriate posi­
tion were the features of the showing. The titl e
pages of the song, together with a di splay of
talking machine records and word
roll s of the sa me number, were ar­
ran ged in positions where they
attracted the eye of the passerby.
A reproduction of this partic­
ularly appropr iate window is here­
with shown. It demonstrates that
the proprietor of the store is wide­
awake to his opportunity in at­
tractin g attention to the song. The
fact that the sales during the
weeks in which this window of
"That Old Gang of Mine" ap­
peared showed substantial in­
creases, no doubt, justified the re­
tailer in a ppropriating money for
the expenditures necessary to make
this original window showing.
WILLIS AUTUMN OISPLAY
CINCINNATI, 0., October 27.-The
Willis Music Co. has a most at­
tractive window display showing a
pumpkin and other signs of Fall,
such as leaves and logs of wood.
This is used as a splendid back­
ground for the display of the
songs, "f'east of the Red Corn,"
"Witherin g Leaves" and "Autumn
Song." Business .on shee t music is
better t ha nit has been for a Ion g
time. Mu s ic sc hools are buyin g
nice quantitie s of mu sic and pop-
Featuring "That Old Gang of Mine"
ular songs. Song hits from "Blos­
lh e idea of the title of the number was recentl y som Time," recently played in this city, have
s hown by The Music Box, 471 Clinton avenue,
been in such demand that local dealers have
Newark, )J'. J. This special showing was given
not be en able to supply the necessary copies.
N,V.C.
MUSIC AND THE MELTING POT
That National M usic vVeek, to be inau gurated
May 4, 1924, will serve an important part ill
the amalgamation of the various races th at
make up the population of the L'nited States is
shown by what already has happened in the
preliminary practice at St. Paul, Minn. Every
day children of five different races meet to
practice singing in preparation for the, big event.
These youngsters, all good American:;, reprc­
sent the Italian, Swedish, negro, Jewish and
Chinese races.
CONFREY PIANO COURSE PRAISED
Jack Mills, Inc., received a number of com­
mendatory letter s on the new " Zez Confre)
Modern Course in No ve lty Piano Playing," th e
fifty-page book by the famous pianist-composer.
Axel Christensen, president of the Christensen
Schools of Popular Music, recently character­
ized the book as a "boon to pianists-amateur and
profeSSIOnal-as well as schools, teachers, con­
serva tories, etc." Accord ing to reports from
retailers the sales of thi s new publication hav e
been quite- healthy.
THOMAS HUGHES BACK FROM WEST
Thomas Hughes, sales manager of Shapiro,
Ber nstein & Co., Inc., returned recently from
a trade trip through the Middle West. He
states he found business conditions in the terri­
tory visited most healthy and amo ng other num­
bers which were making the music counters
ac tive was his firm's son g, "Las t )J'ight on the
Back Porch." The new ~o n g, "Say It With a
Ukulel e," recently purchased from the Ameri­
<.an Mu sic Co. by the company, is also quite
popular.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The' Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
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WIDE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN ON LEO FEIST DANCE FOLIO
HEARST NUMBERS IN VAUDEVILLE
Begins Drive With Page Advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post-$500 Offered in Prizes
for Special Window Display Contest Featuring This Latest Publication
Large Number of Acts Successfully Using
Numbers From This Publisher's Catalog
contest will close December 15, so displays
should be arranged from November IS on.
The Feist Dance Folio )J o. 6 carries thirty
song successes arranged as fox-trots, waltzes,
blues, etc., and has the endorseml'nt of Paul
V,·hiteman. Included in the numbers are "Love
Tales," "No, No, Nora," "Tell Me a Story,"
"Blue Hoosier Blues," "Swingin' Down the
Lane/' "Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake," "Ritzi
iVIitzi," "I Love You," "Good Night," "Wonder­
ful One," "Saw Mill River Road," "Oh, You
Little Sun-uv-er-gun," and others.
"If Love Were All, " a Richmond-Robbins,
Inc., waltz song, is the theme for " Unseeing
Eyes "-a motion picture which opened a t the
Cosmopolitan Theatre, New York City, a few
days ago. The number is played throughout
the entire performance. "If Love Were All"
is the best seHer in Richmond-Robbins' "Gold
Seal Series," and there is an increasing demand
for this song from all parts of the country. It
was written by William Axt, associate con­
ductor ot the Capitol Theatre, New York.
The Hearst Music Publishers, Ltd., numbers,
"Wonderful Child," "Beautiful Rose," "In the
J .and of Sweet Sixteen," "Some Day You'll Cry
Over Somebody Else" and "Always Looking
for a Little Sunshine," are finding favor with
singers, the following artists using one or more
of them: Norman Stanley; Bobbie Lowe, of
"Youth & Melody"; Larry Francis, of Milford
& Francis; Gene Leighton's Rainbow Six;
Happy Benway & Sonny Dinkins; Farrell &
Hatch; Dolly St. John; Jack Reidy, of Reidy
& Curry; George Britt; Gazette & Thorn­
dyke; Jack Lipton; Joe McAnallan, of Coburn's
Minstrels; Olga La Marr; Mabel Lorraine;
Frederick Sisters, with Mack's Four Steppers;
Detty Baun & Jack Byrnes; Charlie Holds­
worth; Fletcher, Ivy & O ' Connor; Barnes and
Robison; Mabel Besthops and Margie Catlin.
Si Conn, orchestral leader, of Proctor's One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theatre, New
York City, used " Some Day You'll Cry Over
Somebody Else" as the musical theme for Rex
Beach's famous film play, "The Spoilers," and
reports that the song went with the theme of
the playas though it had been written espe­
cially for the picture.
"MARCH OF MANNIKINS" FEATURED
BUYS BALLAD SUCCESS, "SWEET PAL"
"March of the Mannikins," in the Richmond­
Robbins, Inc., catalog, is still featured by many
well-known orchestra organizations, including
Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania
Orchestra, now playing vaudeville engagements.
The Paul Whiteman S.S. "Leviathan" Orches­
t!-a, now playing the Orpheum Circuit, is also
featuring this successful march fox-trot.
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., have pur­
chased from Reinhardt's Music Shop, Memphis,
Tenn., the ballad success, "Sweet Pal." The
number has shown much activity III recen t
weeks and the Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. profes­
sional department contemplates wide activity on
the number in co-operation With a national sales
campaign.
In conjunction with the release of the new
Feist Dance Folio No.6, on November 1, the
publisher, J ,eo Feis t, Inc., has a rranged a na­
tional advertising and publicity campaign. In­
cluded in this is ;l full-page announcement of
the release of this new publication, which will
appear in the Saturday Evening Post on sale
No ,·embcr IS. The Saturday Evening Post has
over two million and a quarter circulation and
several times that number of readers, therefore
this national announcement, in conjunction with
the supplementary publicity, will, undoubtedly,
be the means of creating thousands of new
sales for this folio.
Of particular interest to dealers is the $500
in prizes which are to be distributed for the best
window displays of the Feist D a nce Folio No.6
and "Good Old Timers," a publication carrying
seventy-five popular selections, which is also
included in the Saturday Evening Post and
supplementary advertising.
There will be one first prize of $100, one
second prize of $50, two third prizes of $25
each and twenty prizes of $15 each. Alto­
gether there will be twenty-four winning prizes.
The only conditions are that the displays must
be of either Dance Folio No.6 or the "Good
Old Timers " publication, or both, or display
mat erial of either or both of these two folios,
which the Feist organization will furnish gratis
upon request. Any dealer in the United States
or Canada is eligible. Two photographs of
contesting windows should be sent to the pub­
lisher, one to be marked. with the name and
addres s of contestant, the other with no mark­
in g, so that judges in making selection cannot
be influenced by the size of the store, etc. The
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