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IMPORTANT PROMOTIONS
IN WITMARK & SONS STAFF
E. H. Morris, president, Music Publishers
Holding Corp., has appointed Jimmy Clark to
the management of the M. Witmark & Sons
branch office, in Chicago, succeeding Clarence
Parrish, who comes to the New York office
as manager of the "Black and White Series"
department. The appointments are promo-
tions for both men. Jimmy Clark was for-
merly special service manager of M. Wit-
mark & Sons and manager of their Philadel-
phia branch. Parrish has been manager of
the Chicago branch for several of the IS
vears he has been associated with Witmarks.
HERBERT E. MARKS HOME
FROM EUROPEAN TOUR
Herbert E. Marks, of the Edward B. Marks
Music Co., New York, returned recently from
an extended European trip in the course of
which he combined business with pleasure
by calling on some seventy music publishers
with the majority of whom his company is
already doing business. While abroad he
placed Marks publications with a number of
European publishers, secured some excellent
numbers for publication in this country, and
arranged for his company to represent a num-
ber of European publishers for sound rights
in the United States.
Mr. Marks was enthusiastic over the man-
ner in which he and Mrs. Marks were re-
ceived by the prominent publishers and
composers in Europe.
TWO SPECIAL MARCHES
COMPOSED FOR HARMONICA
The harmonica, which during the past few-
years has made rapid strides in winning na-
tional recognition as a musical instrument of
great pissibilities and particularly as a means
for d?v. -i 'oping a broader interest in music,
has now reached a point wh°re special
march's -r 1 being composed for it.
One of the most interesting of these new
marches is that composed by Professor C. I.
Valentine head of the music department of
the Newton High School in New York City
and long an enthusiast regarding the har-
monica. It is entitled "Almeda March," and
is particularly interesting in that, in addition
to being arranged for the piano, it also has
numeral notations to facilitate the playing of
MUSIC
TRADE
the piece on the harmonica. The selection,
published by the Irving Publishing Co., Flush-
ing, N. Y., is dedicated to Sidney J. Win-
field, the popular executive of M. Hohner, Inc.
It is arranged for either the Marine Band
harmonica or the Chromonica in C.
No less a personage than John Philip Sousa
is responsible for the new march "Harmonica
Wizard" published by the Theodore Presser
Co., Philadelphia, and which bears on its
title page a photograph of the famous Phila-
delphia Harmonica Band. Unfortunately the
music is published in only piano and orches-
tral and band arrangements without nota-
tions for the harmonica.
HITS DISAPPEAR FROM
PIRATE SONG SHEETS
The success of the campaign waged by the
American Society of Authors, Composers and
Publishers against the peddlers of song sheets
bearing copyrighted songs is evidenced by
the fact that these same peddlers are again
on the streets but this time with sheets bear-
ing unknown songs or those so old that they
are out of the running, although they are
still offered to the public as the latest hits
of Broadway. A study is now being given
to the possibility of fighting this racket in its
new form.
THIS PUBLISHING HOUSE
REPORTS A GOOD PROFIT
REVIEW,
September, 1931
150%
That's your margin of profit on every
copy of "CENTURY" music you sell,
which certainly makes it worth while
pushing—doesn't it?
CENTURY CERTIFIED EDITION is
now being advertised in eleven of
America's leading magazines! Every ad
urges their sixty million monthly readers
to buy Century music from their dealer.
That's you, if you carry the line.
You can only benefit from this adver-
tising by cooperating with us—HELPS
FREE FOR THE ASKING.
CENTURY MUSIC
PUBLISHING CO.
235 W. 4Oth St., N. Y. City
Harry Engel, president of Davis, Coots &
Engel, Inc., reports that despite general con-
ditions his company realized a substantial
profit during the first six months of this year
due to the fact that several of the company's
publications have been among the best sellers
during the past few months, including "I
Still Get a Thrill," "Good Evenin','' "One
Little Rain Drop," "Dream a Little Dream
of Me." Recent releases include "On the
Beach With You," by Benny Davis and J.
Russell Robinson, who wrote "Margie,"
"There's No Other Girl" used in Benny
Davis' revue, and "A Little Less of Moon-
light (A Little More of You)."
that organization and have associated them-
selves with the Clayton F. Summy Co., of
Chicago.
The Wilson Music Publishing Co., 1641
Highland avenue, Hollywood, Cal., recently
opened at the above address to conduct a
music publishing business as well as a re-
tail department for musical merchandise and
sheet music.
Go From Presser to Summy
Irving Berlin, Inc., recently acquired the
novelty song success, "Got the Bench, Got the
Park (But I Haven't Got You)," from Dia-
mond & Lewis. The song is proving a strong
seller and is featured extensively on the
radio.
John F. Sengstack, until recently the gen-
eral manager of the Theodore Presser Co.,
and Dr. Preston Ware Orem, for many
years publication manager of the same com-
pany, have severed their connections with
Isaac Levinson has taken charge of the
sheet music and school supply department of
the Melody Music Shop, 12 South Main
street, Memphis, Tenn.
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