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The Music Trade Review
Philadelphia Music Stores
Tie Up With Cohan's "Billie"
SEPTEMBER 22, 1928
reproduction of the Columbia record easily
dominated the display. Sheet music copies of
the song were also shown on the floor of the
window as well as small instruments and
phonographs.
Executives of the Brunswick
Music Shop state that the Whiteman record-
ing of the above song is one of the best sellers
in recent records.
entury
Some Very Effective Window Displays De-
voted to Music of New and Successful Pro-
duction
is the message we are sending to
millions of people every day
through the medium of 31 Best
American Magazines directing the
readers to go to their dealers for
copies.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., September 15.—The leading
local music stores were quick to tie up with
the recent opening here of "Billie," the new
George M. Cohan show, at the Garrick Theatre.
Practically every music store of any conse-
quence devoted its windows extensively to the
A new hit, entitled "Then Came the Dawn,"
display of the song hits of "Billie." The favor- published by Gene Austin, Inc., New York, has
able reviews of the newspaper critics, extolling developed rapidly as a best seller during the
SHEET MUSIC
HOOK-UP
Strong Campaign on
"Then Came the Dawn"
Fifteen cents a copy for the
Best existing Edition is the
reason why "CENTURY" is
Best selling Edition.
Century Music Pub. Co.
235 W. 4Oth St., New York City
Seventh Anthem Contest
for American Composers
DAYTON, O., September 15.—The Lorenz Pub-
lishing Co., Third and Madison streets, this
city, has just announced its seventh anthem
contest open to American composers, in which
twelve prizes, totaling $525 will be distributed.
The conditions of the contest provide that the
anthem be unpublished in any previous form
and. be no longer than may be printed on nine
pages of ordinary octavo size and not shorter
than two such pages. All manuscripts are t.o
be in the hands of the main office of the Lorenz
Publishing Co., here, no later than February 1,
1929. The judges are to be the editor and asso-
ciate editors of the Lorenz firm. Additional
details may be obtained from the publishing
firm, which issues about two hundred anthems
each year.
Al Piantadosi Numbers
Featured Over the Radio
Two valuable broadcasting "plugs" for new
numbers in the catalog of Al Piantadosi, music
publisher at 1576 Broadway, New ^ p r k , were
obtained this week and are expected to add ex-
tensively to the popularity of the numbers. On
September 17, direct from the glass-enclosed
studio at the Fifth Annual Radio World's Fair
at. Madison Square Garden, the new novelty
number, "Lady Fingers," was played by Harry
Rreuer, xylophone artist with Roxy's Gang.
This number was personally announced by
Roxy and was sent out over the "blue" net-
Work of fifteen stations. On Tuesday evening
Nat Shilkret presented a special arrangement
oi : "Just a Dance Program of Long Ago" in
the Eveready Hour over a hook-up of twenty
stations. Special postcard announcements of
both events were sent out to the music trade in
advance of the broadcasting by Al Piantadosi,
listing the names of all the stations in both
networks.
Fred Fisher Closes
t Fred Fisher, one of the older group of song-
writers, and more recently a publisher at 1595
t}roadway, New York, has closed his offices
and has gone to Hollywood to write music for
talking pictures. Mr. Fisher is the composer
of "Dardanella," "They Go Wild Over Me,"
and "Dance of the Blue Danube" and many
others.
Theodore Presser Co. Display of "Billie" Music
the merits of the individual songs., made it past few weeks and Marty Bloom, general man-
essential to show nearly every number in the ager of the concern, anticipates sweeping the
production, including "Billie," "Where Were country with it this Fall. He signalized his
You—Where Was I?" "Happy," "They Fall In confidence in the number this week by sending
Love," "The Two of Us," "Personality," and Harry O'Brien out on a flying trip through the
trade in the interest of the single song, which
"Every Boy in Town's My Sweetheart."
Especially effective were the windows in the will take him through the chief cities from
stores of H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc., 1108 New England to Denver. Mr. O'Brien was
Chestnut street; Theo. Presser Co., 1710 Chest- formerly prominent as branch manager and
nut street, and the large downtown McCrory traveling representative for several large East-
store. The latter utilized a miniature stage ern publishers, and is well acquainted with the
setting with costumed dolls in the center of the music business in all its phases.
display, which attracted a great deal of atten-
tion during the entire week. The other two
Another Sensational Hit
stores used large photographs of George M.
in THE WITMARK
Cohan and posters to add interest to the sheet
music display.
BLACK & WHITE
SERIES
"Little Mother" Proving
Big Success With Film
PORTLANI;, ORE., September 14.—The lullaby
waltz, "Little Mother," published by Sherman, Clay
& Co., has had a big run in Portland, due to
its being used as the theme for the showing of
the picture "Four Sons" at the Portland The-
atre. p The run was .so great that the stock in
the various music houses was sold out, so that
it was necessary to rush a new supply of the
number here. This, according to A. W. Hulten,
manager of the sheet music department of Sher-
man, Clay & Co., was done by air mail. In
addition to using the number at the theatre,
attractive windbw displays were featured at the
Remick Song Shop, the Seiberling-Lucas Music
Co., the Mack Music Co., and at the local Sher-
man, Clay & Co. store.
VICTOR HERBERTS MASTERPIECE
AH! SVEET MYSTERY o/ LIFE
"Last Night I Dreamed
You Kissed Me" Featured
CHICAGO, I I I . , September 18.—An attractive
Summer show window, featuring the Columbia
recording of "Last Night I Dreamed You
Kissed Me," a current Feist hit, made by Paul
Whiteman and his orchestra, was presented re-
cently by the Brunswick Music Shop, 3206
Lawrence avenue, this city. Two enlargements
of the now famous caricature of Paul White-
man placed on each side of a huge pasteboard
Can be had as follows
SOLO—4 keys, Ab (eb to eb) Bb— C and D
DUET—2 keys, Bb and D
OCTAVO—Two Part, Three Part, Foui Part,
Male, Female and Mixed Voices
Instrumental lot Piano
The Dream Melody (Intermeiio) Waltz
Violin and Piano, Cello and Piano, Violin, Cello and
Piano
VOCAL ORCHESTRA, DANCE ORCHESTRA, Walti,
BAND
M. WITMARK & SONS, NEW YORK