23
PRESTO
October 21, 1922.
S H E E T MUSIC T R A D E
TO PUBLISHERS
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THE COMBINED CIRCULATION
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS-
ICAL TIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA-
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT-
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS-
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB-
LISHERS.
This department is designed to advance the sales
of sheet music, and give any current information in
the Sheet Music Trade.
This publication believes that Sheet Music will
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays
those who merchandise it properly.
The conductor of this department will review
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer-
ings, giving particular information of the theme and
a description of the musical setting of the number
discussed.
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Music Dept., Presto. 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
HOME OF "HOME SWEET HOME"
THE "SONG GAME" IS A GAME WHICH,
WERE THE DEALERS WISE, THEY
WOULD NO LONGER PLAY AT.
very young, Payne toured both America and Eng-
land as an actor, playing several roles successfully.
He even undertook Hamlet, and it is said that the
house on one occasion sold out for $1,400—a vast
sum in those conservative days. But he was doomed
to face disaster, later. For some unexplained rea-
son the histrionic talent that promised so much in
his extreme youth failed to burst into flower, and
he wisely left the stage and turned his attention to
playwriting.
Though Payne remained in Paris and prospered
somewhat, his letters reveal the nostalgia he often
felt for America. To his brother he once unburdened
his heart: "My. yearnings toward home become
stronger as the term of my exile lengthens. I long
to see all your faces and to hear all your voices.
I feel the want of you—parts of myself
in this strange world—for though reconciled to vaga-
bondism, I long for home."
OUR DANCE MUSIC IN SPAIN.
The popularity of American dance music in Spain
has resulted in a marked stimulation in the sale of
playerpianos. The business would be bigger if the
price were more in keeping with the Spaniard's abil-
ity to pay, according to Department of Commerce.
Under the new tariff law which went into effect on
February 16, 1922, pianos and pianoplayers imported
from the United States and other foreign countries
with which Spain has commercial treaties are sub-
ject to duties of 25 per cent, instead of the regulation
duty of 50 per cent. American instruments have had
a good share of the existing trade.
NEW FLORIDA FIRM.
The Daytona Music Co. is the name of a new music
house at Daytona, Florida. The concern announces
the date of its entry into business as November 1 this
year. A full line of musical merchandise and sheet
music will be carried in addition to a "well selected"
stock of pianos, players and talking machines.
House in Easthampton, N. Y., Which Inspired Payne
Is Preserved as Memorial.
The lovely village of Easthampton, on the south
shore of Long Island and less than a hundred miles
from New York, the house and environment which
The McDowcll-Castator Music Co., Pawhuska,
inspired John Howard Payne to write "Home Sweet Okla., has moved into new quarters at 621 N. Kinekat
Home." In Easthampton is the simple house where avenue.
Payne once dwelt; and this is the house he dreamed
of and never forgot, when he wrote that song which
has gone round the world, and which will live for-
ever in the hearts of men.
Some time ago the house was about to be demol-
ished when G. H. Buek purchased it and made it a
thrilling memorial of the wandering man who thought
"You're the One Little Girl for M e "
of it constantly, and, finally, in a flood of homesick-
ness, wrote of it in his deathless song.
A Love Song Never Forgotten
The house has been standing since 1660, according
"Dreaming
of Love's Old Dream"
to architectural experts, and there is plenty of evi-
dence that John Howard Payne was born there, al-
A Waltz Sensation
though the city of New York claims the honor of
"When I Dream That Auld Ireland Is Free"
being his birthplace. When Payne was but a lad of
(A Tribute to Ireland)
fourteen, he edited a paper in New York called the
Thespian Mirror, and a year later, in Schenectady,
"Love of the Ages"
we-find him getting out The Pastime; and copies of
Cyrena Van Gordon's Big Feature Song
these Mr. Buek preserves on the walls of the tiny
YOU MUST HAVE THESE BIG SURE FIRE HITS
Easthampton house.
IF YOU ARE
His life shows his adventurous spirit. While still
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"TEARS OF OUR LAST GOOD-BYE"
PLACING THE BLAME
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The "Song Business" Has Possibilities for Any
Who Have the Proper Mental
Balance.
By T. ROGERS LYONS.
Should you walk right up to a free born American
citizen and tell him that he is being led around by
the nose, and he is a victim of propaganda; should
you inform him that he is letting some one else do
his thinking for him, and that he has not got energy
enough to think for himself; should you tell him
that he is reduced to a rubber-stamp whose sole duty
it is to do as he is told, and get his satisfaction in
assisting to pull some one else's chestnuts out of the
fire; should you say any of these things you would
be likely to get a bat right on the point of the nose.
That is why very few people make any attempt
at saying them. All this, may seem very plainly
expressed, and possibly it is not germane to the
"song game." Perhaps it is. You know whether it
is or not, and comparisons are odious.
The Songs of Today.
In semi-classical and concert songs, no better were
ever written than those which come out today. In
so-called "popular songs" the majority could be no
worse. Song dealers, who are sincere religious dev-
otees, have upon their counters the most obscene
smut possible. Song dealers of culture have the
worst barbarisms the language ever perpetrated.
Song dealers of musical ability daily peddle things to
the public which are far less harmonious than dis-
cords.
Are all song dealers sincere in their wish to have
the modern "popular song" widely circulated, or is it
possible that the song dealer, as a whole, lends him-
self willingly to a condition suggested in the above
paragraph, and is blinded by the oft-repeated cry,
"We are sorry this is so, but we are giving the peo-
ple what they want."
This argument could be applied to drugs, dope,
and narcotics with equal force, and sales based on
this business precept would be large.
The Wail of Today.
Women's clubs, mothers' clubs, the movie associa-
tions, the pulpit, the public and the press, are crying
aloud to high heaven, and are asking sincerely that
such things be not circulated, and that songs and
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My Buddy
California
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter
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Childhood Days
When Shall We Meet Again
Lovable Eyes
Out of the Shadows
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
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