23
PRESTO
November 4, 1922.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
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.
FOR SHEET MUSIC SALES
Spirit Accompanying Revival of Old Custom
of Community Singing Found to Be
Conducive to Sales.
The business in sheet music and music books con-
taining standard numbers is being increased in a sys-
tematic way in many places and in all cases the
dealers enjoy the co-operation of the music teachers
and various kinds of organizations. In a great many
places in the West and South the old American cus-
tom of community singing is being revived. Nor is
the custom confined to the smaller places. The big
and growing city of Dallas provides a notable ex-
ample in the movement for other places in Texas.
In Houston, Tex., the music dealers are sensibly
co-operating with a new organization called the
Houston Music Council. Most of the music dealers
are members of the council, which also numbers
teachers, composers and music lovers generally in its
membership list. The meetings of the Council are
devoted to discussion of schemes conducive to the
encouragement of music in the city. Already plans
have been perfected for a series of free concerts to
be given in the City Auditorium. At the concerts the
people will be given the opportunity to hear good
singers, instrumental performers and the many ex-
cellent choral organizations of the city.
The Community Music Association of Washing-
ton, D. C, is more than its name suggests. It is an
organization for the encouragement of music in all
its forms with special efforts towards reviving com-
munity singing and making it a more marked fea-
ture of the times. The Washington music dealers
are well represented in the new organization which
purposes holding free weekly concerts. The old cus-
tom of Christmas Eve caroling will be revived, and
the national capital will again hear the seasonable
songs familiar to the Washington of Colonial days.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
A stock of sheet music has been added to his other
lines by Joseph C. Irwin, Rutherfordton, N. C.
A trip of inspection of Jerome H. Remick & Co.'s
stores and departments representing the Remick line
of sheet music, is now being made by Eddy Adams of
the New York office.
"Hot 'n Cold" is the title of a new song of Jerome
H. Remick & Co.
One of the late publications of the Oliver Dickson
Co, Boston, is "Resurgam" by Henry Hadley, solo,
chorus and orchestra parts being written for the
fiftieth anniversary of the Cincinnati Musical Festi-
val to be held next May.
The Remick song, "My Buddy," was featured
during last week by Henri Keates on the big organ
of the Liberty Theater, Portland, Ore. The Portland
orchestras generally are partial to "By the River
Side" and "To-morrow," two very popular Remick
fox-trots.
President George Fischer of the Musical Publish-
ers' Association has requested a large number of
religious publications to print an exposure of the
"musical moonshiners" who go after the easy money
of the gullable amateur song writers.
The Evans Music Co., handling sheet music in San
Pedro, Calif., has moved to larger quarters.
"THE EDGAR SHOPPE."
"The Edgar Shoppe" is the clever name of an
enterprising musical store in Tulsa, Okla. Thomas
J. Edgar, who was a visitor in Chicago during the
week, is the owner of the shop and the originator
of the name.
Leo Wilson is manager of the Music Box, re-
cently opened at 2962 East Ninety-second street,
Chicago.
FORE!
MAKE WAY
FOR THE
Four Real Song Hits!
Four Foremost Sellers
"LOVE OF THE AGES"
"WISHING ALL THE TIME"
"DREAMING OF LOVE'S OLD DREAM"
An Alluring Fox Trot Ballad
The Song You Have Been Waiting for—
"LOVE ROSE"
Another Pretty Fox Trot Song
"DREAM MAN"
Fox Trot Ballad Supreme
"TEARS OF OUR LAST GOOD-BYE"
Endorsed and Sung by Cyrena Van Gordon
"You're the One Little Girl for Me"
A Ballad You Will Never Forget
"When I Dream that Auld Erin is Free"
A Tribute to Ireland's Independence
HENDERSON
166 W. JACKSON BLVD.
CHICAGO
BENJAMIN F. WOOD'S WILL
Boston Music Publisher Multiplies Weekly Salary of
Employes by Weeks of Employment.
Benjamin F. Wood, head of the B. F. Wood Music
Co., music publishers, Boston, who died some time
ago leaving an estate of more than $200,000, made one
of the most unusual wills ever filed for probate in
Massachusetts.
The will declares that every employe who has been
with the concern for ten years or longer shall receive
his weekly wage as it stood at the time of Mr. Wood's
death, multiplied by the number of weeks he has
worked for the concern in all. Thus, if an employe of
the company has worked ten years for the Wood
Music Publishing Co., at $50 a week, he receives by
the will his $50 salary, multiplied by 520, or $26,000.
After specifying that $10,000 shall be devoted to the
use of the Central Maine General Hospital at Lewis-
ton, Me., he goes on to declare that the entire re-
mainder of the estate shall be left as a charity fund
and a trust fund to be administered for the benefit of
all employes of his concern who may be disabled or
in need of or otherwise worthy of a share.
OUTLOOK FOR HOLIDAY TRADE.
In many quarters the belief is held that the retail
holiday business this year will be good, says the
New York Times. It is not expected that the free
spending of certain other seasons will return, but it
is considered almost certain that a better business
than was the case last year will be had. Retail sales
have already shown a tendency to broaden out, and
this is looked upon to become very much more evi-
dent as the holidays approach. Gifts of a useful
kind bulked large in the holiday purchasing last year,
but some look for an easing up of the trend in this
direction during the coming season. Luxuries and
other merchandise, that come under the gift head-
ing but cannot be called strictly "useful," are be-
lieved to have more of a show.
The Most Appealing Waltz Song in Years
"SOMETIME"
Order from your jobber or direct
WALSH & WALSH, Pubs.
1512 N. Harrison St., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
REMICK SONG HITS
Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
My Buddy
California
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter
Than Today
Carolina in the Morning
Silver Swanee
Childhood Days
When Shall We Meet Again
Lovable Eyes
Out cf the Shadows
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
A Charming Waltz Ballad
BERARDI-COCCIA MUSIC PUB.
COMPANY
92 Grape St.,
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
NEW YORK OFFICE
1545 Broadway, New York City
CHICAGO OFFICE
1562 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, 111.
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