28
PRESTO
September 18, 1920.
MOVES IN BUFFALO.
who flocked to Frank E. Aiken's theater,
Burley & Biesinger, Buffalo, N. Y., occupied its
either at McVicker's or the old Wood's Muse-
building at 332 West Ferry street this week.
um on Randolph street—we are not now cer- new
The structure is two stories in height and will be
tain which.
up-to-date in all its equipments when completely
Sheet music in the days of "way back when" finished. The music store will occupy the entire
lower floor 30x105 in dimensions. Fourteen booths
sold for from 30 cents to $1.50 a copy. It was are
now being erected and the record department
worth receiving as a gift. And no doubt Ross will be most modern in all its arrangements.
& Gossage, and the rest, found its use as an
C. WENHAM SMITH DIES.
advertising medium a good investment.
THE OLD CAMPAIGN SONGS
A Few Reprinted Show the Thought of the Men
Who Sang Them in Notable Political Conflicts.
The conspicuous absence thus far of songs de-
signed to inject pep into the presidential campaign
is attributed, among other things, to the lack of
inspiring material. The issues apparently do not
invite to song. Of course, the election is still some
time off, and in the meantime some genius of syn-
C. Wenham Smith, aged 69 years, singer, concert
copation may bring forth a League of Nations jazz
leader, composer and choir leader, died last week or an H. C. of L. fox-trot, but it doesn't seem
in a hospital in Newark, N. J. He was a founder
ANDREW J. COOK DIES.
likely, and in any event such music probably would
Andrew J. Cook, aged 77 years, former bandmas- of the American Guild of Organists and a member not meet with much enthusiasm, says the Literary
of
the
New
York
Manuscript
Society.
He
was
or-
ter of the famous Marine Band at Washington, D.
Digest.
C, and the man who taught John Philip Sousa the ganist of the First Presbyterian Church at Elizabeth,
It is further pointed out that just as the issues
rudiments of music, died on Monday of last week N. J., for twenty-eight years.
fail to inspire melody, so there is nothing in the
of paralysis at the Brooklyn Home for the Aged,
personalities of the candidates to make anybody
DEALERS ENTERTAINED.
745 Classon avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had
break out in song. They lack the magnetism, it is
lived for the last two years. Born in Brooklyn, he
Twenty-five Victor talking machine dealers of
said, which creates fans, such, for instance, as the
went in early life to Washington where he became Central Illinois, assembled recently at the Belle- colorful qualities of a Roosevelt or the silver-
leader of the Marine Band. While John Philip vue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, as the guests of
tongued persuasive powers of a Bryan. Also, the
Sousa's father was one of the players in that band. the company, were entertained at a shore dinner telephone, the telegraph, the newspaper, and the
Mr. Cook taught the son how to play the cornet. at Boothby's last week by the Putnam-Page Co., magazine, to say nothing of the deluge of campaign
Later on young Sousa became leader of the band
Victor distributor in Peoria, 111.
literature and the "canned" speeches, all contribute
and made it famous. Mr. Cook was a fine violinist
to make superfluous in these degenerate days the
and even in his last illness, with great difficulty,
TO OPEN I N COLUMBUS.
campaign singing, the torchlight processions, the
played a violin that he kept at his bedside.
A retail music store will be operated in Columbus. fiery campaign oratory, and all the other methods
O., by the recently incorporated Tifft-Martin Co. employed to arouse the populace in the good old
Among improvements in the enlarged talking The incorporators are C. E. Tifft, Jr., R. W. Martin, days. "Them was the happy days," and their brave
machine department of the Hale Bros. Co., San G. E. Tifft, Sr., Mrs. May Tifft and Edith Martin. spirit is reflected in an anthology of campaign songs
Francisco, are four demonstration booths.
The company has a capital of $50,000.
of that bygone period recently collected by Sydney
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