PRESTO
August 21, 1920.
GRANDPA'S CLOCK RUNS FAMILY
FLOOD OF CAMPAIGN SONGS
Composers Equal to Opportunity Afforded by Re-
quirements of National Election.
The national headquarters of the Republican,
Democratic and in a lesser degree the Farmer-Labor
parlies, are flooded with offers of lyrics and musical
compositions for campaign use, It is something al-
ways to be expected, and now, just as always, the
^campaign song composers and concocters are con-
vinced that the verses with point and the lyrics with
"swing will help some party to power. Some of the
songs suggested are original in both music and
words, many are confessedly parodies and the great
majority of the work, both words and music, might
be classified as "rotten."
It is said the song makers have the best chance
of "getting their compositions across" in the vari-
ous state and local headquarters throughout the
country. The local headquarters of candidates seek-
ing city and state offices and election to state legis-
latures and senates are considered the most likely
to be concerned in the vocal material for the cam-
paign quartettes and glee clubs.
HIS MOST POPULAR SONG
Choice of Returned Tourist from Cuba Where
There Is Moisture Still.
An American recently returned from Cuba, where
he had been for a number of years, was the invited
guest at the home of a business acquaintance whose
wife is a talented pianist. The wife, desirous of
furnishing entertainment for her husband's friend,
played some classical numbers for him but, notic-
ing the discomfiture of their guest, she turned to-
ward him saying:
"Perhaps you prefer popular music?"
"Yes Madam, please play for me that most popu-
lar song, 'Oh, How Dry I am!'"
THE JENKINS PRODUCTION.
The J. W. Jenkins' Sons' Music Co., Kansas City,
Mo., is the publisher of "The Twelfth Street Rag,"
which the company believes will be one of the big
successes this summer and fall. The company is
featuring it in a particularly strong way and it is
claimed that over 25,000 orchestras are now playing
it. The piece has been recorded by a talking ma-
chine record company and a music roll manufactur-
ing company.
FAMOUS SONG WRITER DIES.
Homer Norris, a noted composer, of New York
and formerly organist of St. George's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Stuyvesant square, that city,
died last Saturday afternoon at Roosevelt Hospital,
New York, from injuries he suffered when knocked
down by a taxicab, June 20, in front of Carnegie
Hall. The late J. Pierpont Morgan, who was senior
warden of St. George's, presented to the musician
a home known as "The Boulders," a stone mansion
built upon a crag of the Orange Mountains, facing
Greenwood Lake. The house cost $20,000 on an
estate that cost $10,000, adjoining the property of
the late E. H. Harriman, railroad king. Mr. Norris
was the author of several works of harmony and
counterpoint, and ranked high among the composers
of this country, in a class, some of his friends said,
TWO POPULAR NUMBERS
These very popular numbers:
"COLONEL CONWAY MARCH" (Band) and
"ARIZONA MOON" (Light Waltz for Piano)
are making a big hit, and meeting with due praise
in 'Arizona and on the Pacific Coast.
T. Dunston Collins, the composer of these
numbers and others, is a former band master of the
Iowa State College and of the Indian School at
Phcenix. 27c in stamps will get a copy of either
piece; 50c for the two, pending popularization.
T. DUNSTON COLLINS
Box 1084
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
with MacDcnald and Chadwick. He was born at
Wayne, Me., Oct. 4, 1860, where Anna Louis Cary,
the contralto, was also born. His first position of
prominence was that of organist of Harwood Bap-
tist Church, Boston, which he accepted at the invi-
tation of Daniel Ford, proprietor of the Youth's
Companion. He was the composer of several can-
tatas, of which the best known are "Nain" and "The
Flight of the Eagle." He also composed many songs,
of which more than 50 are well known on recital
programs. Among them are "Three Roses Red,"
"Cradle Song" and "Mother o' Mine/'
LOOK OUT FOR 'EM.
A great many people between San Francisco and
New York will be afforded an opportunity of hear-
ing the songs published by Sherman, Clay & Co., of
the last named city. Herbert Marple and Harvey
Orr, connected with the sheet music department of
Sherman, Clay & Co., are now on a motor trip
across the continent, and en route will promote the
sales of the sheet music production of the San Fran-
cisco house.
BUYS SHEET MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
The sheet music department in the store of the
Hauschildt Music Co., San Francisco, Calif., for-
merly conducted by W. A. Prior, has been sold to
H. C. Hanson, who owns the small goods depart-
ment in the store named. Mr. Prior decided he
could not spare the time from his duties as conduc-
tor of the orchestra in the Portola Theater.
W. C. COLL IN PITTSBURGH.
The new manager of the song shop of Waterson,
Berlin & Snyder, in Pittsburgh, Pa., is W. C. Coll,
who is well known to the sheet music trade of Chi-
cago. Mr. Coll reports a very brisk business in the
Pittsburgh store, which is tastefully decorated and
admirably equipped for a shop of that kind. A spe-
cial singer to demonstrate the songs is employed.
REMINGTON CATALOGUE.
The new Remington Phonograph Corporation's
advanced catalogue for 1920 is now ready and is be-
ing sent to dealers throughout the country. This
folder is very artistically gotten up, in three colors,
and explains in detail the different models com-
pletely manufactured by us, and also exclusive pat-
ented features used in Remington phonographs. Pic-
tures of the original Remington family, factories
snd historic facts pertaining to the Remington fam-
ily, and also details relative to the Remington repro-
ducer, are all fully covered in the new folder.
AN IMPROVED BUZZER.
Everything seemed the same as in other years
in the Minnesota woods except one thing, when
D. L. Parsill, advertising man for the Wunderlich
Music Co., Kansas City, went up there recently to
fish and tramp when the spirit urged him. That
thing is the mosquito's honk, which, Mr. Parsill
says, has been equipped with improvements that
amplify and intensify the tone of the buzz in a most
terrifying way. The big noise from the small horn
should be investigated by the inventors of the talk-
ing machine industry, is his suggestion.
ALIBI FOR CAT.
Violin strings, although referred to as "catgut,"
arc really made from the intestines of sheep. And
in this connection there is a curious fact; American
sheep do not furnish strings which equal those from
the European animals. The fault is not in the proc-
ess of making. It is due to something in the life
history of the sheep itself, perhaps the fact that they
have to work harder for a living in Europe. There
is even a difference in strings made from the same
sheep! On one side, the intestine has a coat of fat
to protect it from rubbing; and the strings made
from this side are much inferior to those from the
other side. So when anyone talks of the "very best
catgut strings" you will know what the exact origin
of those strings is.
Curtis N. Kimball, president of the W. W. Kim-
ball Company, returned to Chicago, on Monday
of this week from a vacation trip in the East.
Phonographic Device of a Philadelphia Paternal Sire
Tells the Family When to Do Things.
A special to the Chicago Post from Philadelphia,
says that Vincent Pinto has what, to all appear-
ances, is a staid old grandfather's clock, but at times
it does things that would surprise, if not shock, all
of the younger clocks.
During the early morning hours, it behaves as
other clocks have from the time of the first grand-
father's. But at six it changes. First it booms out
the hours—Bong—bong—bong—bong—bong—bong
—then it shouts, being heard throughout the house:
"Six o'clock and time to get up."
Mrs. Vincent and her daughter Rose obey and an
hour later the clock shouts Up the stairs to Mr. Pinto
and his son:
"Breakfast is ready. Hurry down."
"Off to work, now, it's time," the clock warns the
men of the family at 7:30, and at 9 a. m. it informs
Mrs. Pinto, "It's time to go to your marketing."
And so it goes, all day long, that nobody in the
house may forget any duties. At 11 o'clock at night
the clock, imitating Mr. Pinto's voice in its deepest
and sternest tones, says:
"Time to go home, young man, it's 11 o'clock;
time to go home."
Miss Rose's "young man" gets his hat and goes.
Mr. Pinto and his son built the clock and installed
the talking apparatus after eleven months' work.
Mr Pinto made his own records, and he can change
the clock's conversation whenever he wishes. It is
rumored he sometimes stops the talking apparatus
on Sundays and other days when he is at home.
LESLEY'S
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"Pretty Mamie"
"Loving Mama"
"Heart Like An Irishman"
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