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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW,
July,
1931
31
EVERY PIANO MERCHANT SHOULD HANDLE
SHEET MUSIC—SAYS PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC MERCHANTS
Transcript from stenographic report of the annual convention of the National
Association of Music Merchants, Chicago, June 9th. President Heaton said at the
Tuesday morning open forum session:—
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"Our sheet music department originally was intended as a feeder for the piano
department. We installed it with the idea of not making a profit in that depart-
ment, but to hold the good will and keep in constant contact with the teachers.
This department is showing a profit, not large, but a profit, and personally I recom-
mend and urge every piano merchant in the United States to put in a sheet music
department. Do not over-expand it. You can carry nothing but teaching music
and sell it to the teachers at competitive prices, the prices for which they can buy
it elsewhere. It is a decided asset to the piano business."
Answering a question put by Mr. Wittich of Reading, Pa.:—"So you think
every music store should have a music department?" President Heaton replied,
"I think those that are going to survive should have. 1 "
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THE REVIEW IS READ EACH MONTH BY ALL THE LEADING MUSIC MER-
CHANTS OF THE COUNTRY—OVER 4,000 OF THEM.
Lima, O.; John Y. Blaetz, Philadelphia; E.
Grant Ege, Kansas City, Mo.; Walter 6.
Fischer, New York; Edwin Fitsmaurice, Chi-
cago; Harold Flammer, New York; William
M. Gamble, Chicago; J. Elmer Harvey, De-
troit; Sam D. Harris, New York; C. W.
Homeyer, Boston; W. H. Levis, Rochester,
N. Y.; Edwin P. Little, San Francisco; S.
Ernest Philpitt, Miami, Fla.; W. Deane
Preston, Boston; J. M. Priaulx, New York;
Paul A. Schmitt, Minneapolis; Oliver Schat-
tinger, St. Louis, and Robert T. Stanton, Los
Angeles.
MARKS TO PUBLISH MUSIC
OF THREE GERMAN FILMS
The exclusive sales distribution of the music
from three important German films at present
being shown on Broadway in New York and
in other large cities, has been taken over by
the Edward B. Marks Music Co.
The first film is the German classic first
produced as a musical comedy many years
ago, "Forsterchristl" (Forester's Daughter),
the feature number being called "Je, Wer 1st
Denn Das? Ja, Wer Kommt Denn Da?"
The second film is "Student Sein" (Student
Life) in which the big number is called "Just
Say That You Love Me (Sag Ja)". The
third film, "The Girl From the Reeperbahn"
(Ein Madel von der Reeperbahn), produced
in New York some time ago, has three musi-
cal numbers. The edition published contains
all three numbers with the original German
text, also with English lyrics by L. Wolfe
Gilbert, and are "Let's Dim the Light and
Dance the Tango", "My Mem'rv of One
Night", and "The Maiden From the Reeper-
bahn".
The Vincent DePrisco Music House, To-
ledo, O., is now located in new quarters at
443 Huron street.
MUSIC PUBLISHERS 1 ASS'N
HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
SAM FOX CO. TO PUBLISH
RED STAR CO. CATALOG
The annual meeting of the Music Pub-
lishers' Association of the United States was
held at the Hotel Astor, New York, on June
16, with most of the business session being
devoted to a discussion of general conditions
in the trade. Attention was also given to
the amount of propaganda work that is now
being carried on in the cause of music, in-
cluding the group instruction movement in
the schools of the country as well as the
broadcasting of piano lessons by the National
Broadcasting Co.
The relationships of the publishers and the
dealers also came up for discussion although
the code of ethics covering such relationships
drafted by a committee representing the pub-
lishers and the dealers, and ratified by the
latter in Chicago, was not acted upon,
being still in the hands of the publishers'
committee.
All officers of the association were re-
elected as follows: president, W. Deane Pres-
ton, B. F. Wood Music Co., Boston; vice-
president, Harold Flammer, G. Schirmer,
Inc., New York; treasurer, Carl T. Fischer,
J. Fischer & Bro., New York, and secretary,
Edwin L. Gunther, Schroeder, Gunfher Co.,
New York.
jBam Fox Publishing Co. has entered into
ar^, agreement with the Fox Film Corp. under
which the Sam Fox Co. will publish exclu-
sively, for a period of years, the songs and
musical numbers featured in pictures pro-
duced by Fox Film Corp.
Under the arrangement, the Red Star
Music Co. catalog will be handled by the
Sam Fox Publishing Co. and all future orders
for numbers heretofore published by the Red
Star should be sent to the New York office
of the Sam Fox Publishing Co.
The present outstanding songs in the Red
Star catalog, which will be strongly exploited
by the Sam Fox Co., include "Beautiful
Love," "Toodle-oo, So Long, Good-Bye" and
"Do You Believe in Love at Sight."
HERBERT MARKS CLOSES
BIG DEAL IN LONDON
Herbert Marks, of the Edward B. Marks
Music Co., put over a big deal on his recent
trip to London. The London publisher,
Lawrence Wright, contracted for five num-
bers of the Marks Co., evidencing his faith
in these works by the size of the advance
check and guarantee that accompanied the
deal.
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL BANDS
IN ANNUAL TOURNAMENT
More than six thousand persons attended
the seventh junior band tournament sponsored
here by the Milwaukee Leader in Lake Park,
Milwaukee, Wis., the West Division high
school band, conducted by E. D. Rainier, tak-
ing first place.
Second winner in the tournament was the
South Division high school band conducted
by Louis B. Goodrich; the winner of third
place was the Milwaukee Girls vocational
school band conducted by Eugene M. Rodat
and Cudahy high school band, conducted by
Oscar E. Kluck, won fourth place.
The judges were Alfred Hiles Bergen,
William Buech, and Ray Brown. Mr. Ber-
gen said that "the quality of high school
band music, as exemplified by the playing in
the tournament, has improved 80 per cent,"
since he last judged one of these annual
events in 1926.