Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 80 N. 11

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MARCH 14, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
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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.
B
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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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Shapiro, Bernstein & Go.
New Numbers Issued
Plan Big Campaign
By Ghappell-Harms, Inc.
"At the End of the Road" and "Peter Pan"
Among Numbers Being Given Special Atten-
tion
"One Little Dream of Love," "I Look Into
Your Garden" and "Go, Lovely Rose" Among
Those Issued
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., have arranged
a big Spring campaign on some of the out-
standing successes of its catalog. Most of these
numbers are having an active sale in sheet mu-
sic form and have been recorded on all of the
talking machine records and player rolls. In
record form they invariably appear in the cata-
logs in both vocal and instrumental form.
The numbers that have been selected for this
special sales drive include "At the End of the
Road", a number of ballad order with a par-
ticular appeal in the homes of the country and
also popular as a fox-trot on the dance floors,
"Peter Pan" (I Love You), also a fox-trot, is
a novelty that in a short space of time has
made itself one of the leading popular successes.
The other numbers include two fox-trots, "The
Only Only One" (For Me), "Alabamy Bound"
and the new vocal selection, "The Prisoner's
Song."
"One Little Dream of Love," one of the new-
est songs added to the catalog of Chappell-
Harms, Inc., is already showing up advantage-
ously. The song is appearing in the programs
of many singers and should be prominent as
an encore number during the balance of the
concert season. "One Little Dream of Love"
has words by Harold Simpson and music by
Westell Gordon.
"I Look Into Your Garden," another song in
the Chappell-Harms catalog, carries music by
the well-known Haydn Wood and words by
Charles Wilmott.
"Go, Lovely Rose," from a poem by Edmund
Waller, is set to music by Roger Quilter.
All of these new numbers are active sellers
and "One Little Dream of Love" shows indi-
cations of being one of the big popular ballad
hits in the Chappell-Harms catalog. In antici-
pation of this the publishers have arranged it
in several keys and have given it a multi-col-
ored title page from a drawing by the artist
Archie Gunn.
New McKinley Music Go.
Offerings to the Trade
Include New Editions and Instruction Books to
McKinley Edition and Firm's Popular Cat-
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CHICAGO, III., March 7.—The McKinley Mu-
sic Co., 1501-1517 East Fifty-fifth street, pub-
lisher of the famous McKinley Edition, as well
as popular selections, announces that a number
of improvements have been made to the former
line and that several new numbers have been
added recently to the latter.
A new edition of "Root's Pleasant Hours of
Piano Instruction" has been issued with an at-
tractive and artistic cover. This booklet, which
covers a complete and thorough course in piano
instruction for children, has already gone over
the half-million mark in sales and its popularity
continues year after year. "Root's First Steps
in Music Made Easy," which is likewise a very
popular standard number, has also been issued
with new cover, as well as many other selec-
tions of this line.
The latest additions to the popular catalog
include "Answering," fox-trot; "It's Always
Lovetime in Dreamland," waltz; "Till My
Dreams Come True," waltz; "I've Got a Gal in
Tallahassee," fox-trot.
Boosey & Go. to Move
Pallma in Portland
PORTLAND, ORE., March 4.—Frank Pallma, Jr.,
traveling representative of the Sam Fox Pub-
lishing Co., was a recent visitor. He had a
number of new offerings that were welcomed
by the local dealers and he was given substan-
tial orders for them. They were: "Indian
Dawn," "I'll Give the World for You" and
"Neapolitan Nights." "Indian Dawn" especially
was appreciated as the dealers had received
calls for the song before he arrived with it.
The words are by Charles O. Ross, the writer
of Indian lyrics, and the music was by J. S.
Zamecnik. The title page is attractive and Mr.
Pallma said that many dealers had taken ad-
vantage of the number to feature attractive win-
dow displays, combining Indian rugs and relics,
which they featured in collaboration with the
curio men.
Century Number Popular
"The Norwegian Cradle Song," which was
added to the Century Music Publishing Co.'s
catalog some weeks ago, and which has had a
wide sale since its release, is now available for
the saxophone. The melody is particularly
adapted to this instrument, and its sale for such
use should be quite active.
Boosey & Co., the internationally famous bal-
lad publishing house, and which, for many
years, has operated its American branch at 9
East Seventeenth street, New York City, has
closed negotiations for new executive quarters
in the Steinway Building, 109 West Fifty-
seventh street, New York. This locality is con-
sidered the new music center. It is close to
Carnegie Hall and surrounded by numerous
leading piano retail warerooms.
PORTLAND, ORE., March 7.—Among the recent
visitors to the local sheet music trade was
Harold Flammer, of Harold Flammer, Inc.;
Arthur Hauser, Carl Fischer, Inc.; Joe Skilton,
of G. Schirmer, Inc.; Bill Jacobs, of Irving
Berlin, Inc., and Frank Pallma, of the Sam Fox
Publishing Co.
Walter Donaldson Chartered
Opens New Department
The Secretary of State of New York has
granted a certificate of incorporation to a new
firm operating under the trade name Walter
Donaldson, for the purpose of publishing music.
The incorporators are: W. Donaldson, J. E. Mc-
Govern and F. E. McGovern. The capitaliza-
tion is $10,000.
Leroy DeWitt has opened the music depart-
ment in the Dickerson Variety Store at 20 Col-
lingsville avenue, East St. Louis, 111. Mr. De-
Witt is a brother of Raymond DeWitt, who is
well known in music circles in Salt Lake City,
Utah. He is also the composer of several
songs.
Frank Silvers, writer of the past success, "Yes
We Have No Bananas," is responsible for the
new novelty published by Jack Mills, Inc., called
"What Do We Get From Boston." The pub-
lishers are making the new offering a feature.
A new publishing organization incorporated
under the laws of the State of New York is to
operate under the trade name Associated Music
Corp. The incorporators are J. Elias, W. Witol
and C. Lynch.
NEW YORK
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