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reau submitted the complaint in the case for the
Toledo commission to take up with local post office
authorities.
"You're just a plain liar, Charlie, and I sentence
you to three and one-half years in Atlanta." With
those words Judge Killits sentenced Charles Smith,
who was charged with using the mails to defraud.
Smith, in attempting to explain to the court, told
several apparent falsehoods, which caused Judge
Killits to pass the remark as to his veracity.
Posing as a song publisher, Smith is alleged to have
secured small sums of money from a great many
persons. Many of his contributors were white per-
sons, according to the testimony of Thomas D.
Milligan, postoffice inspector.
February 3, 102?,
ROYALTY CLAIMS UPHELD
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
No Action by Federal Trade Commission on Plea of
Motion Picture Theatre Owners.
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The organization known as the Motion Picture
Theatre Owners' Association of America some time
ago filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Com-
mission protesting against the payment of royalties
for public performances of copyrighted music, as de-
manded by the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers. The protesting brief said
the demand constituted "an unfair method of compe-
tition in commerce." In the reply to the organiza-
tion of motion picture theater owners, the chief ex-
aminer of the Federal Trade Commission said -the
case was not one calling for the exercise of the com-
mission's corrective power, and continued:
"The chief reason for this conclusion may be stated
Leading Favorite With Concert and Vaudeville
as
the fact that the making of a claim for royalties,
Singers One of a Winning List.
apparently in good faith, cannot be said to constitute
Professional writing folk agree that the hardest 'an unfair method of competition in commerce'; it
thing to write is a story for children, because the cannot be said to be unfair in the sense in which the
children are the severest unconscious critics. If a word is used in the Commission's Organic Act, but
story hasn't the child appeal it bores them; if it has is merely an assertion of a supposed legal right which
they crave more—from the same source. In the is fully determinable by the courts, and it is not 'a
same way observant sheet music dealers and stage method of competition/ because the parties to the
folk are one in the opinion that composers competent controversy are not in any way competing with each
to write a successful Irish song are as scarce as the other."
proverbial hens' teeth, which accounts for the eager
manner in which the good ones are grabbed up by
EXCLUSIVE S H E E T MUSIC STORE.
the professional singers. Feeling in the melody is a
"The Music Shop' is a store for the sale of sheet
first requirement in the Irish song.
music exclusively in the downtown section of In-
One of the most favored songs heard on the con- dianapolis. The proprietor is Mrs. La Rue E. Black,
cert and vaudeville stage today is "Sweet Norah who has been in the music business for twenty years,
Daly/' written and published by Eliza Doyle and among other things has built up an astonishing
Smith, 59 E. Van Buren street, Chicago, and the mail order business. The fact her store attracts so
Doyle in her name may account for the tuneful and much attention may partially be attributed to the fact
characteristic Irish lilt in the beautiful waltz melody. it has only three walls, the fourth side being entirely
The Chicago publisher writes songs for the love of
plate glass, through which her counters and adver-
the thing and then makes a commercial success in tising may be plainly seen.
publishing them. A song with the proper feeling
that stage singers recognize is sure to be one highly
A W I N N I N G NUMBER.
suitable for dance purposes. The beautiful waltz mel-
"Love of the Ages," by L. Arthur Olaf Anderson,
ody of "Sweet Norah Daly" insured its favor with the
-md published by H. J. Gott, successor to Gott &
dancing public from the first.
Eliza Doyle Smith is now pointing to her lucky Henderson, Chicago, is one of the big favorites at
thirteen hits, including "Jonah," a whale of a song. sheet music counters in many places. This song is
They are all excellent sellers and the merits of the one of the best of the recent publications. It is sung
songs make the purchaser of one a certain buyer of by Cyrena Van Gordon, the brilliant young opera
star. Her autographed photograph adorns the title
others in the line.
page.
"SWEET NORAH DALY" A HIT
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
ADDS LUDWIG DRUMS.
A complete line of Ludwig drums made by Ludwig
&• Ludwig, Chicago, is an attractive part of the new
musical merchandise stock of J. E. Berry, music
dealer, Tillamook, Wash. The musical merchandise
line of the enterprising dealer includes band instru-
ments, violins, banjos, mandolins and ukuleles.
"Krazy Kat," a "jazz classic," by John Alden Car-
penter, was included in a program of the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra last week. Fritz Reiner, the
conductor, said, "Good jazz is a valuable product.'
Remick's Song Shop, Boston, is under the man-
agement of Lee Myers, who has made it a favorite
place of call for musical people.
The Oakford Music Co., Omaha, which recently
purchased the sheet music stock of the Olney Music
Co., St. Joseph, Mo., is drumming up the teacher
trade.
One of the most attractive displays of sheet music
made in San Francisco for some time was that re-
cently made with "Jonah," published by Eliza Doyle
Smith, Chicago, by the E. N. Davies Music Co., which
achieved big sales from the window display.
ACTIVE IN TEXAS.
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. The big and
growing city of Dallas provides a notable example in
the movement for other places in Texas. In Hous-
ton, 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 Lyon & Healy
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A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
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