23
PRESTO
December 2, 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, Ch : cago, 111.
A "SONG WANTED" VICTIM
Letter from a Lyricist Who Was Caught in the
Meshes of the Fakers.
Editor Presto: I must say that Mr. Lyons has
some very good "dope" and just the advice that might
have saved from $75 to $100 for me had I known of
him before. I must thank him for the advice he
gave me, and your paper for printing it.
I am satisfied that were I to publish my song it
would he "punk," and I'd lose a few more dollars of
what little 1 have. I thought that if I could have
them reviewed I'd get some idea of their worth be-
fore wasting time. Anything you say about them
wouldn't hurt me: it might only save me from the
rocks!
Now, about the composers whose names I gave and
the companies they are with, I'll confess that 1
doubt them. They think I don't know that the}' are
trying to "rope me" again. But no more! I'm done,
and I'll do all I can to get them out of business. I
know a number of those "fake" publishers!
One of those companies, in New York, charged me
$^6 for one song, and gave me a list of supposcd-to-
FORE!
MAKE WAY
FOR THE
Four Foremost Sellers
"LOVE OF THE AGES"
be publishers, and a few were legitimate, but the
others were music stores and not publishers at all.
I thank you again for all you have done.
M. BUSHEY.
IT WAS A PEACH
Correspondent Corrects Reference to Something
Green in Presto's Answer tc Song Publisher.
It wasn't a little green apple at all! Consequent-
ly it isn't strange that VV. M. Rieder of Niles, Mich.,
wrote that he couldn't find any song about it. The
reference was to "The Little Peach," by Eugene
Field. And, to set Presto absolutely right, the poem
is reproduced here. It is the song referred to sev-
eral weeks ago and asked for last week. And it is
worth the space anywhere:
A little peach in the orchard grew—
A little peach of emerald hue;
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew.
It grew.
One day. passing that orchard through.
That little peach dawned on the view
Of Johnny Jones and his Sister, Sue—
Them two.
Up at t'.iat peach a club they threw—
Down from the stem on which it grew
Fell that peach of emerald hue,
Mon Dieu!
John took a bite and Sue a chew
And then the trouble began to brew—-
Trouble the doctor couldn't subdue.
Too true!
Under the turf where the daisies grew
They planted John and his sister. Sue.
And their little souls to the angels flew—
Boo hoo!
What of that peach of the emeraifl hue,
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew?
Ah, well, its mission on earth is through.
Adieu'
THE LAUGHING ESKIMO.
An Eskimo audience is very heartening to the
singer of comic songs. They may not understand a
word of the songs, but when the singer chortles the
Eskimos send up a sympathetic haha. An Eskimo
laughs when he hears or sees other people laugh,
whether he understands the joke or not. The laugh-
ter-loving people are particularly fond of songs re-
corded by Al Jolson and Harry Lauder, which always
set them laughing immoderately.
Salak Bros., Inc., a new firm in Racine, Wis., has
added a full line of sheet music.
TANA
COMPOSER AWARDED $750
Hirsch, Put Out of Polo Grounds in 1920, Gets
Verdict Against Yankees.
Louis E. Hirsch, music composer, won a verdict
of $750 last Monday in the Supreme court of New
York for his ejectment from the Polo grounds on
May 20, 1920, during a baseball game between the
Yankees and Detro.t. The defendants in the suit
was the American League Baseball club' of New
York (The Yankees).
The baseball club's representatives said Air. Hirsch
had changed his seat several times in violation of
rules which were made to prevent gamblers from op-
erating. Mr. Hirsch said he had changed his seat
twice, once when smoke from the pipe of a "fan"
sitting next to him annoyed him and once when one
of the special policemen stood in front of him just as
"Babe" Ruth came to bat.
Victor Herbert, the famous composer of light op-
eras, testified as a character witness for Mr. Hirsch.
SHEET MUSIC IN PORTLAND
Dealers and Publishers' Representatives All Pleased
at Recent Incidents in Bus'ness There.
I. E. Sklare, manager of the Rcniick Song & Gift
Shop, Portland, Ore., says the company is still reap-
ing the benefit of the activity put into the recent
Music Week in Portland, Ore. The Remick songs
are being featured this week in the various theaters:
"Caroline in the Morning" at the Orpheum; "My
Buddy" at the Majestic: and "Indiana Home" at
the Liberty Theater.
Marvin Lee, representing the Watterson, Berlin
Snyder Co.. was a Portland, Ore., visitor last week
and placed good orders with the sheet music dealers
for "I'll be in My Dixie Land Tomorrow" and "You
Gave Me Your Heart."
The travelling representative of the Stark & Cowan
music publishers of New York visited the Portland
trade last week and received good orders for their
new fox trot, "Blue", which is becoming popular in
Portland.
AFTER TEACHERS' TRADE.
F. R. Austin, who recently opened a sheet music
store at 80 W. Park street, Portland, Ore., is develop-
ing the teachers' supplies and accessories phase of his
business. He widely advertises his stock of stand-
ard works. In addition to the main store he has
opened
a sheet music department in the store of the
G. l r . Johnson Piano Co., where he has the privilege
of occasional window displays.
PAUL SPECHT'S "HUMAN HEARTS".
Donald Lindley, member of Paul Spccht's Colum-
bia recording orchestra, New York, has 'made a spe-
cial arrangement of "Human Hearts", Leo Feist's
newest fox-trot ballad written around the LTniversal
photoplay of the same name, "Human Hearts" is
now one of Paul Specht's biggest numbers at Cafe
Monte Carlo.
Oriental Fox-trot Ballad,
as Catchy as the Flu.
Send for professional copy:
Orchestration, 25c.
Stewart & Aarrestad Pub. Co.
Brmsmade, N. D.
Harry Tenny, the popular vaudevillian now playing
in the Eastern circuit, finds "Childhood Days" a
Remick hit, the greatest favorite with his audience's.
REMICK SONG HITS
Endorsed and Sung by Cyrena Van Gordon
"DREAMING OF LOVE'S OLD DREAM"
The Song You Have Been Waiting For—
"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
HERBERT J. GOTT
JUST OUT!
"Mother, Dear, I'm Sad and Lonely/ 1
A New Waltz Song; add this to your Xmas
list. Composed and published by
MAY BELL ANDREWS
ELDRED
(McKean Co.)
PENNA.
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Nobody Lied
Sweet Indiana Home
My Buddy
California
Tomorrow Will Be Brighter
Than Today
Carolina in the Morning
Silver Swanee
Childhccd Days
When Shall We Meet Again
Lovable Eyes
Out cf the Shadows
Ycur Eyes Have To!d Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
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