Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 81 N. 16

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OCTOBER 17,
THE
1925
STOCK-UP I
You will need a goodly
supply of
CENTURY'S
Best
Sellers
This Season
STOCK-UP!
Century Music Pub. Go.
235 West 40th St.
New York
"Close Your Eyes" Is
Featured by Denver Theatre
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
than not accompanied by a singer. In the pres-
entation you get a background that acts as an
illustration. Therefore, the eye and ear are
appealed to in a manner that leaves no doubl
on the results obtained.
Probably there would be more elaborate
presentations than is the custom if they were
not so expensive. They are effective but they
are also costly and, if the management of the
photoplay house does not bear the bigger bur-
den of the expense, it remains doubtful
whether the appropriation can be justified.
Sales are produced, it is true, but if the expense
is quite large they may not measure up in vol-
ume so as to leave a good margin of profit.
To get such presentations, both elaborate and
semi-elaborate, is the work of the branch offices
and representatives of the various music pub-
lishers. It is they who are acquainted with
the management of the photoplay houses and it
is their function to obtain presentations with a
minimum of cost to the publisher.
The personality of the representative natur-
ally goes a long way in getting results from
local photoplay houses. Next of importance is,
of course, the song and its appeal. A number
that lends itself to presentation purposes nat-
urally will have an easier road than the one,
no matter how popular, that does not have a
background which makes the presentation in-
viting.
Recently Harry Wilson, the Denver repre-
sentative of Sherman, Clay & Co., who is well
known as a particularly good exploiter of
Sherman-Clay Number Given Elaborate Presen-
tation—Getting Good Numbers on Photoplay
House Programs
It has long been recognized that musical
presentations in photoplay houses through
which an individual popular song is made a fea-
ture on the program gets unusual attention for
the number selected and creates a volume of
sales that is quite substantial.
It is good publicity and, probably on meri-
torious numbers where a number of presenta-
tions are made in various houses over wide-
spread territory, is beyond compare. With such
Featuring "Close Your Eyes"
presentations you obtain an exclusive and im-
pressive rendition by an orchestra, more often songs, made possible through his close connec-
tion with the America Theatre in the city of
Denver, and through the courtesy of Harry
Long, the manager of that house, an unusual
Sequel to
presentation of the successful song, "Close
'love Sends a Little Gift of Roses"
Your Eyes." The America Theatre thought
so well of the number that it featured it in
electric lights, together with the name of Harry
Wilson, who rendered the vocal version, in the
same size electric display as that given to the
feature picture of the week.
This was certainly getting the most out of a
musical presentation. The results in this in-
stance justified the expense. It was not much
of a gamble because "Close Your Eyes" is just
HARMS, INC.
62W.4-5TXST.,N.Y.C.
the type of a number that only needs popular
presentation in order to be the big hit of the
week.
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YOU AND 1
MARGUERITE
0 KATHARINA
MIGHTY BLUE
LOVELY LADY
BECAUSE OF YOU
1 MISS MY SWISS
HAUNTING MELODY
HONEST AND TRULY
KINKY KIDS PARADE
YOU GOTTA KNOW HOW
THE MIDNIGHT WALTZ
WHEN I THINK OF YOU
I WANT YOU ALL FOR ME
WHO WOULDN'T LOVE YOU
PAL OF MY CRADLE DAYS
TELL ME YES, TELL ME NO
LET IT RAIN, LET IT POUR
I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
NO WONDER (THAT I LOVE YOU)
HONEY, I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU
I'M TIRED OF EVERYTHING BUT YOU
WHEN THE ONE YOU LOVE LOVES
YOU
LET ME LINGER LONGER IN YOUR
ARMS
SHE WAS JUST A SAILOR'S SWEET-
HEART
Write for Dealers' .Prices
LEO
This catalog is under the management of
H. T. Fitzsimons, publisher of the Aeolian
series of school music, anthems, cantatas and
operettas, such as the well-known number
"Once in a Blue Moon." Mr. Fitzsimons is also
well known to the trade, as he was connected
with the sheet music department of Lyon &
Healy, Inc., for over ten years. In managing
the Palma catalog, Mr. Palma will be able to
continue his personal contact with the sheet
music dealers.
Anna Chandler Sings
Press Agent Song
Included in the song repertoire of Anna
Chandler, vaudeville and phonograph star, who
opened Wednesday night at Janssen's midtown
Hofbrau, is a song dedicated to press agents.
The Hofbrau press agent authored the num-
ber, which is titled "The Wide Open Spaces in
My Scrap Rook."
wie Brought Mose
AMERICAS POPULAR
BALLAD SUCCESSES
K9
ROSES OF PICARDY
IHEVARLDBMHIUGSSSUNRK
INTHE 6ARDEN0FTD-M0RR0W
THE S0N6OF SONGS
LOVE'S FIRST KISS
SMILETHRU YOUR TEARS
IF WINTER COMES
CHAPPELL-HARMS.INC.
185 MADISON AVE
NEW YORK
Frank Palma, Jr., Opens
Offices in Chicago
Will Offer Catalog of Art Numbers to the
Trade—H. T. Fitzsimons Associated With
Him
CHICAGO, I I I . , October 13.—Frank Palma, Jr.,
who recently formed the Palma Music Pub-
lishers, has established headquarters in Room
509 South Wabash avenue, Chicago. Mr.
Palma is well known to the trade and his con-
nection for the past seven years with the Sam
Fox Music Publishing Co. has given him wide
experience and acquaintance among the dealers.
A catalog of new art numbers has been pre-
pared and includes such popular ballads as
"Dawn," by Weaver; "I Love You More Each
Day," by Sovereign, and "The Gift Supreme,"
"A Broken Song," "Uila," "Nymphs and
Fauns."
eStltl
Goes Down
BEAUTIFUL BALLAD
Writer 0/ 'Smiltn 1 Through" " ^ l i M ^ ^ i ^ ^ i
SOLO -THREE mi
DUET-TWO KEYS
OCTAVO-
BAND
ORCHESTRA
A late addition to
ytie r Wittnarlt
(Black and Wife
Series
M.VITMARK 6 SONS NEW YORKJ
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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
OCTOBER 17, 1925
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branch of merchandise, the dealer has an oppor-
tunity of selling much other goods; whereas
if they were to stay at home such chance would
not be had.
Company Adds Number of National Mediums
Sheet music dealers hardly need to be told
to List Used in Advertising the Century
this. They have impressive experiences each
Edition
season; in fact, almost daily. They have ex-
perienced Summer seasons which might ordi-
In celebrating its silver anniversary, the Cen narily be dull but for the fact that a popular
tury Music Publishing Co., which uses a score hit of the moment lured customers into the
of national publications each year, made an ad- store and thereby increased the volume of busi-
dition this year to include twenty-five maga- ness on many other items. Getting people into
zines in its advertising campaign. Century ad-
the store is important. The dealer himself
vertising has been carried out on a national
sends out much literature, monthly letters, etc.,
scale for fourteen years. Of course, it has pro- and uses similar means to hurry sales along and
duced business for Century edition as well as keep his establishment in the minds of prospec-
Century dealers. A point, however, to be borne tive buyers. Some of this burden is carried on
in mind by the retailer is the fact that nation-
the shoulders of nationally advertised articles,
ally advertised products bring people to the
and for that reason enterprising dealers must
store that might not otherwise come. It hur- give such consideration.
ries along sales that might otherwise be delayed
and, like all advertising, it is a big factor.
Regardless of the profit on nationally adver-
tised articles, and in'many instances it is most
Hubert Platt Main, composer and editor, died
fair, such goods have the further advantage o\
luring buyers into the store. What the dealer on Thursday of last week, at the age of eighty-
needs most is visitors to help his establishment, seven, at his home, 12 North Ninth street, New-
naturally, the more the merrier. If a purchaser ark, N. J. Since 1854 he had composed more
comes in for Century, or any other well-known than one thousand songs, hymn tunes and an-
thems, and compiled and edited song collections
for church, Sunday school and other devotional
use.
He had also written many services and
carols for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter,
and had assisted in the compilation of various
To Strengthen the Weaker Fingers—To Develop the Legato
song collections for church service.
Touch, or the Staccato Touch—To Use as a Study in Wrist Work,
Octave Work. Left Hand Melody. Crossing the Hands—and
Among the more familiar of Mr. Main's
Dozens of Other Problems?
hymns were: "Hold Thou My Hand," "Shall
You Will Find the Answer in the List of
We Meet Beyond the River?" "The Bright For-
ever," "In the Fadeless Springtime" and
"Christ My All." Mr. Main had collected a
ACCORDING TO
Century Music Go.
Has Silver Anniversary
Hymn Writer Dies
What Shall I Give My Pupil?
library of hymn books estimated at 7,000 vol
umes. More than half of the collection is now
in the Chicago Library. Mr. Main had lived in
Newark for fifty years.
Shapiro, Bernstein & Go.
New Novelty Number
"Down by the Winegar Woiks," Written by
Pittsburgh Men, to Have an Intensive Ex-
ploitation
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., which, in recent
years, has been noted for its novelty songs, has
issued a new number called "Down by the
Winegar Woiks." The number has been popu-
lar through its appearance on the radio. The
publishers took a liking to the tune and sent
an emissary to Pittsburgh, where it was first
heard, for the purpose of arranging for its pub-
lication. However the writers, who are mem-
bers of a popular orchestra, had left the city
and were on tour, and it was necessary to fol-
low them to several cities. "Down by the
Winegar Woiks" is a novelty waltz song which,
when played by orchestras, contains a vocal ver-
sion. One of the writers is Don Bestor, of the
Don Bestor Orchestra, and the others who con-
tributed to the number are Roger Lewis and
Walter Donovan. The Shapiro, Bernstein band
and orchestra department expects to put the
number over in a short but intensive cam-
paign, which has been arranged in its behalf
and which will utilize all the various channels
of exploitation.
MUSIC CLASSIFIED
PIANO TECHNIQUE
From the Newly and Thoroughly Revised
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Selected by
STURKOW RYDER,
Celebrated Teacher, .Composer and Concert Pianist,
and HENRY S. SAWYER,
Well Known Music Critic.
EDITORIAL STAFF of the McKINLEY PUBLICATIONS
Frederick A. Stock (Editor-in-Chief "Music in the Home"
Edition), Anne Shaw Faulkner (Music Chairman, General
Federation of Women's Clubs). Sturkow Ryder, Victor Gar-
wood, Allen Spencer, Clarence Eddy, Arthur Olaf Andersen,
Allen Ray Carpenter, Henry S. Sawyer and Others.
Send for Catalog of "One Thousand and One" Piano Selections.
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
1501-1515 E. 55th St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Copyright, 1924, by McKinley Music Co.
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Dealers
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Ifaln Ofhces: 40-44 Winchester St. Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
THREE BIG SELLERS
Sing About Bananas When We've
Peaches Everywhere?"
"Mother, Your Boy is Coming Home"
"Thoughts"
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Syracuse, IN.Y.
"Why
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Music Engravers and Printer!
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