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MARCH 14, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
51
REVIEW
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puts it: "About every musician in greater Balti-
more comes here for his new tunes, which makes
it necessary to carry the stock." His Number
2 store is at 417 North Howard street, the sheet
music department of Eisenbrandt's Piano
House. The man in charge is Donald R.
Sewell, a young fellow who knows his job and
from all evidences who is making good in the
department.
Fred B. Hammann
Hammann's Music Store, 206 North Liberty
street, is a busy beehive. Fred B. Hammann
is on the job, as he puts it thus: "My principal
aim is to give the public reliable merchandise
in a pleasant way, and give them their money's
worth." In this store the Brunswick and Co-
lumbia lines of phonographs are carried, many
reliable lines and makes of pianos, the Radiola,
Buescher saxophones, all band instruments as
well as string instruments, and a selected stock
of the timely tunes, both sheet music and or-
chestrations. Mr. Hammann is a thorough be-
liever in turning over stock as often as possible
and his policy is to buy less and buy often.
He is a great believer in facts and figures and
permits his good sense to guide him. While
he believes that men should go to church if they
like, it is not always necessary to sit in a stuffy
front parlor on Sunday and read the reasonings
of Moses and sing the songs of Solomon, since
sometimes a little less research of ancient argu-
ment and more good work for our neighbor
works out much more satisfactorily. Quite like
Hambone's philosophy as he quotes it: "Some
folks pray de good Lawd to guide 'em but dey
done made up dey min' which-er-way dey
gwine, enny-how!"
tobacco, many of these articles could not have
been contributed. The only difficulty I find is
to get a sufficient amount of matches necessary
for my demands.
"Listening" Campaign
Brings Immediate Results
Drive on Number of Irving Berlin, Inc., Wins
Co-operation From All Branches of the
Industry
The campaign recently inaugurated by Irving
Berlin, Inc., on "Listening," one of the suc-
cesses from this season's Irving Berlin's "Mu-
C. L. Dennis, of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce, Told of Swindling Methods
Through Station WGBS on Last Monday
Evening
The exposure of song sharks and their meth-
ods of defrauding amateur songwriters was
continued in a radio talk by C. L. Dennis, of
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
which was broadcasted at 3:20 o'clock Monday
afternoon, March 9.
The song swindle has not yet been stamped
out, in spite of the three years' campaign of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce to
eliminate these parasites on legitimate music
business, because of the ignorance of would-be
songwriters, which makes them so easily de-
frauded.
In a radio interview January 7 by Terese
Rose Nagel, of Station WGBS, Mr. Dennis
answered questions about the "Musical Moon-
shiners," as they were termed by Carl Engel,
of the copyright division of the Library of Con-
gress, and was asked to return again Monday,
March 9, to explain in more detail the methods
of the song sharks and the pathetic cases of
their victims.
School, Lodge and
Assembly Marches
J. Casper Sauer
J. Casper Sauer runs a unique music shop.
We might term it a musical curio emporium.
Our friend Sauer has bought many stocks of vari-
ous firms that were formerly located in this city.
His stock contains the late requirements as well as
many publications that are undoubtedly unpro-
curable elsewhere. He is a very happy individ-
ual, and his work satisfies him—quite an opti-
mist, and why not? He said: "With most people
in business the man that is worth, say, $10,000
worries about its not being $20,000, instead of
realizing it is better than $5,000."
Stewart & Co., a department store in the
heart of the city, has a music department
operated and controlled by Jerome H. Remiick &
Co., of New York and Detroit. The department
is attractive, has a wholesome appearance, doing
a good business under the management of Miss
Green.
Publishers Represented
The following New York popular music pub-
lishers are represented locally: Leo Feist, Inc.,
Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., J. H. Remick
& Co. and Shapiro Bernstein & Co.
Fifty piano firms are representing by dealers
in this city every make conceivable and many of
them handle sheet music.
If it weren't for my Dunhill pipe and good
Again Uses Radio to
Expose the Song Sharks
March Victorious
(Mabel Metzger-Wright)
Pacific Patrol
sic Box Revue," is already achieving wide-
spread results. The fact that this song, which
has been restricted to the show, is now released
and available for vaudevillians has won it a
place in the programs of many performers.
In the campaign, now under way by the Ber-
lin organization on "Listening," it is receiving
the co-operation of not only the jobbers and
dealers in the sheet music trade, but of the dis-
tributors and retail outlets in the talking ma-
chine record and player-roll fields.
In conjunction with the campaign the Berlin
organization is spending a special appropriation
and much page publicity is being used. There
are also available for the trade extra title pages,
window strips and other advertising material
which should aid in creating sales.
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(Mabel Metzger-Wright)
Reliance March
(Clifford)
Victorious Eagle
(Kosey)
American Beauty March
(Williams)
Knights of Columbus March
(ClifTord)
Valiant Volunteers
(Mabel Metzger-Wright)
Order Through Jobber or Direct
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc.
Publishers
New York City
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