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Issue: 1923 1912

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PRESTO
March 17, 1923
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.
SUIT OVER REMICK SONG
Bill Entered in Federal Court Charges Theater with
Infringement of Copyright.
"Carolina in the Morning," a hit song of Jerome H.
Remick & Co., music publishers of New York, Chi-
cago and Detroit, has a tune that tempts the orches-
tra leaders with an ingrowing conscience. The allure-
ments of the song, which is rated as a "best seller"
all over the country and in Canada, were too much
for the music makers in a Chicago theater who dis-
regarded the little matter of copyright protecting the
song from piratical uses.
"Carolina in the Morning" was made the subject of
a suit filed last week in the Federal District Court,
Chicago, by Jerome H. Remick & Co. The suit was
filed by attorneys representing the publishers and
Gus Kahn, composer.
The copyrighted song, the bill claims, was used
illegally by the Franklin Theater, 328 East Thirty-
fifth street, with "irreparable loss" to the plaintiff.
SHEET MUSIC IN PORTLAND
New Department in Wiley B. Allen Co. and En-
larged One in Seiberling-Lucas Music Co.
Louis W. Mack has established an additional sheet
music department in the Wiley B. Allen Company's
store at 148 Fifth street, and will continue his store
at 124 Broadway, and has placed Kathleen Benoit
Campbell in charge. Miss Campbell has been in
charge of the sheet music department of Lipman,
Wolfe & Co. for a number of years and is an ac-
complished musician and is well known in the music
trade as any lady of the Northwest and has a large
following.
The Wiley B. Allen sent out a circular letter to
their large mailing list announcing the addition of the
sheet music department to the store, and Mr. Mack,
who has been in the sheet music game in Portland
for the past ten years, has every reason to anticipate
still more business than he has enjoyed in the past.
The new sheet music department in the new store
of the Seiberling-Lucas Music Co., in Portland, is the
most complete in the city. The company has in-
stalled 16 Globe Wernicke vertical files of four draw-
ers each directly back of a 50-foot counter. Each
AN IMMORTAL SONG
"Home, Sweet Home" Centenary to Be Observed in
England in May.
One hundred years ago next May 8, "Home, Sweet
Home" was sung in public for the first time. The
melody came in the second act of an opera called
"Clarl, or the Maid of Milan," produced at Convent
Garden, London. The libretto was written by a
wandering American actor, John Howard Payne, and
the music was composed by Sir Henry Bishop.
The opera died and was soon forgotten, but the
centenary of the song it bequeathed to the English-
speaking world is to be observed in London. As yet
the nature of the commemorative ceremonies has not
been decided upon, but leading musicians have ex-
pressed hope that the anniversary will be observed
by the signing of the song at concerts throughout
the world.
Payne eventually found his way back to the home
of which he sang so sweetly, but he resumed his wan-
derings and died on foreign soil, at Tunis, where he
had gone as American Consul.
SHEET MUSIC IN THE WEST
Representative of G. Schirmer, Inc., Sees Bright Fu-
ture for Sheet Music Business.
Joseph M. Skilton, the well-known representative
of the publishers, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City,
was a caller at Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, this
week. Mr. Skilton has just returned from a three
months trip to the West, having gone as far as the
Pacific Coast in the United States and into part of
British Columbia.
Mr. Skilton reports it is the most successful trip
he has ever had in- this part of the country, and that
dealers in sheet music everywhere are doing well.
Business is much better than it was in 1922, he said,
and it is the general feeling of the dealers that this
will be one of the best years the business has ever
experienced.
7 FOREMOST SELLERS
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BAYNERDALtjJEIM & Ca
Promoters of Concerts at College of New York Pro-
vides Opportunity for Genius.
Everywhere are unrecognized composers. In
even the smallest towns are people of musical ability
with the gift of composing who hide their light under
the proverbial bushel. Among the ranks of the
music teachers, band and orchestra members and
amateur performers are many clever composers yet
undiscovered. Music dealers everywhere are in a
position to list the customers with the known am-
bition to compose, or who already have produced.
Here is the opportunity that may be broadcasted
among those yearning for recognition.
The promoters of the stadium concerts of the city
of New York has begun a nation-wide search for
musical composers whose genius has gone undiscov-
ered. This was announced recently by promoters of
stadium concerts at the College of the City of New
York. This search will be accompanied by a quest
for singers or players whose merit has been hidden.
Composers whose scores are approved by a com-
mittee of judges will have their music played in the
stadium by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
which has given the open-air concerts for the last
three summers.
Vocalists and instrumentalists who prove their
merit will be permitted to sing or play with the Phil-
harmonic.
In making the announcement Adolph Lewisohn
and Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer said that all com-
posers, American-born or naturalized, would be
given an immediate hearing and that any one in
America might compete.
Orchestral scores of American composition that
13-Our Lucky-13
OF
A SONG
Including "JONAH" A WHALE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
"I'd Give It All for You"
"Honey" (An Alabama Lullaby)
"If It Makes Any Difference to You"
"Dear Heart, Tell Me Why"
"In Candy Land with You"
"My Days Remember"
"Sweet Norah Daly"
"Tea Rose" (Japanese Romance)
"Stop Looking At Me"
"Dance Me On Your Knee"
"Alanna Macree"
"Misty Moon"
"Jonah"
ELIZA DOYLE SMITH
Music Publishers
59 East Van Buren St.
CHICAGO
RUTH
Just Foolin' With You
That Wonderful Sweetie of Mine
You're the One Little Girl for Me
Love of the Ages
Dreaming of Love's Old Dream
When I Dream That Auld Erin Is Free
HERBERT J. GOTT
Music Publisher
177
No.
State 61.
CHICAGO
Estimates
- 9est
Music Printers
ANY PUBLISHER
\
OUR REFERENCE
drawer holds 10 boxes and the music is condensed
and easily found.
Mrs. Maybelle Elliott is in charge of this depart-
ment, who says that "Service" is their slogan and
they are now able to give the best of service, as they
have a complete stock of classical music from such
publishers as Theo-Presser, Oliver Ditson, B. F.
Wood, John Church, Boston Music Co., Carl Fisher,
Arthur P. Schmidt, G. Schirmer, White-Smith and
many others and a big stock of popular music from
Irving Berlin, Leo Feist, Remick, Sherman, Clay,
Sam Fox, Forster, Watterson, Berlin & Snyder and
other publishers.
SEEK UNDISCOVERED COMPOSERS
'
• WORK DONE B Y
•— A L L PROCESSES
054-2060 W.Lake St., Chicago, 111.
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 of the Shadows
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Dixie Highway
Just a Little Blue
Polly
J, H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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never have been played will be examined under con-
ditions that will exclude all favoritism. All manu-
scripts must be sent to Mrs. William Cowen, chair-
man of the score committee, in the Fisk building, be-
fore May 1. Other conditions attached to the com-
petition are:
Each score must be signed by a 110m de plume.
Each must be accompanied by a sealed envelope con-
taining' the composer's name and address and the
nom de plume on the manuscript. The sealed en-
velopes will not be opened until winning manuscripts
.have been selected.
Any form of composition may be chosen suitable
for orchestral performances. Score must not exceed
twenty-five minutes in length. Winning composers
must present orchestral parts not less than two
weeks before performance.
PICTURE OF TIN PAN ALLEY
Graphic Pen Sketch of the Head Center of the Pop
Song Industry.
In his "New York Day by Day," in the Chicago
Evening Post, recently, O. O. Mclntyre turns the
flashlight upon ''Tin Pan Alley":
"Nearly everybody has a secret ambition to help
in writing the nation's songs. The heaviest mail in
New York goes to Tin Pan Alley—manuscripts from
every hamlet and city. It is one calling that is prac-
tically hopeless.
"The popular ditties of the hour are written by a
select group of young dandies with iron arms who
are in the pay of the music publishing houses. Tin
Pan Alley is along 47th street—a row of old-fashioned
brownstone structures.
"In box-like stalls, just big enough for a piano,
coatless youths, none more than 23, grind out tunes
that the nation whistles. The windows are always
open and a riotous blending of disharmony floats out
to the streets. '
"One of the leading music publishers says that out
of 1,000 songs written by amateurs only one was pur-
chased, and it was necessary to rewrite this one.
There is one man in .Wisconsin who has sent to a
publishing house 764 songs without receiving a single
word of encouragement.
"It is true that the majority of manuscripts are not
even looked over. The song-writing youngsters are
not so much musicians as students of public taste.
Many of them are able to play the piano with only
one finger.
"Lyricists fare a trifle letter, but very little. Now
and then lyrics are accepted and a tune composed for
them, but it is seldom that the effort is scarcely
worth the trouble."
March 17, 1923
he said. "I was going up Third avenue one morning
and dropped into John Golden's hat store, between
fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. A friend of mine,
Jimmie Blake, worked there then, and Jimmie was
clever in making rhymes. I can remember the day
well, March 4, 1894, and Jimmie was waiting on a
customer.
" 'I've got a song hit,' I told him when he had fin-
ished.
" Where is it?' he asked.
" 'On "The Sidewalks of New York," I said, then
told him all about my idea and sang a few bars.
" 'It sounds good,' he remarked. 'Why don't you
write it down?'
"'Faith and I will,' said I, and he gave me a piece
of paper. While he went to wait on another cus-
tomer I stood at the showcase and wrote the music,
all in about twenty minutes, and when he came back
1 was trying to smooth up my rhymes. He helped
me a little and the song was done. I went across
the street to a cafe where actors and writers and
such people used to gather and sang the chorus for
them. They took it up and before I left the whole
crowd was singing about 'The Sidewalks of New
York.'
"I hurried to a music publisher and in a little while
my song was coming off the press by thousands."
CHANGE IN JAMAICA, N. Y.
Buying at home is the business motto of Joseph
King, who has taken over the Clinton-Fulton store,
at 420 Fulton street, Jamaica, N. Y. He wiU over-
rate it under the name of the King House Furnish-
ing Company, Inc. The entire building is being re-
modeled to suit the needs of the new proprietor.
The store has a large phonograph department, which
will remain in charge of Mr. Buxbaum. .Mr. A. Levy
will supervise.
"Sidewalks of New York" Written Between Sale of
Two Hats 29 Years Ago.
For the last few years the man who wrote New
York's own song, "The Sidewalks of New York," has
been sitting uptown in a little flat on the west side,
awaiting his chance, says the New York Times. Al-
though 70 years old, sightless and feeble, he has said
all along that it would come. And now it has, and
Charles B. Lawlor is back again in vaudeville with
one of his daughters, after he had slipped from the
minds of most theatergoers, singing the ballad which
he wrote twenty-nine years ago.
Partly because old-time airs are coming into favor
again, "The Sidewalks of New York" has caught the
popular fancy once more, a fancy on which it has
long had special claims. "The Sidewalks of New
York" was the most popular song that the old town
ever had. It had a vogue for years, much longer
than most popular airs. Lawlor, the composer, was a
man of reputation long before writing his song and
when it came out New York simply took the tune
to its heart.
Having found the composer at home in his favorite
seat near the piano, it was natural to ask how he
came to write his famous ballad.
"Well, I had been thinking about it for some time,"
NEW YORK
433 Fifth Ave.
STILL IN FLORIDA.
Emil W. Wolff, vice-president of the M. Schulz
Co., Chicago, is still enjoying himself in Florida on
his vacation, according to a message recently re-
ceived from him. The Schul/. Co. is wishing for his
return to Chicago, to help clear up the great amount
of work which is accompanying the rush of orders.
Manufacturers of the
CHICAGO
Republic Bldg.
HARDMAN PIANO
The Official Piano of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
Owning and Operating E.G. Harrington&Co.,Est.i87i,makersof the
A U T O T O N E (HSJSSS)
The Hardman Autotone
The Harrington Autotone
The Autotone The Playotone The Standard Player-Piano
HARRINGTON PIANO
(Sufreme A mong Moderately Priced Instruments)
The Hensel Piano
The Standard Piano
THE KOHLER INDUSTRI
of NEW YORK
AFFILIATED
COMPANIES
anufacturing for the trade
Upright and Grand Pianos
Player Pianos
Reproducing Pianos
Auto De Luxe Player Adtions
Standard Player A&ions
Art De Luxe Reproducing Actions
Parts and Accessories
Folding Organs
School Organs
Dealers' Attention Solicited
The effect of jazz on polar bears was recorded in a
moving picture film in Seattle last week, and Count
George Hay Du Barry, the Seattle piano man, pro-
rosed the test and bore the expenses. To test his
theory that captivity can be sweetened by music—be
it confinement in a bear pit or the county jail—the
count, accompanied by a man with a moving picture
camera, presented himself and a Victrola to the
superintendent at the Woodland Park zoo.
"Put it in the bear cage. I want to see what
they'll do," he said, pointing to the glistening cabinet
phonograph. "I'll take what's left to the county
jail," he finished.
The superintendent had the music box lowered into
the bear pit with "The Sheik" playing at the rate of
eighty revolutions per. The count's little experiment
in polar bear psychology moved in three parts.
Episode one: Mollic, Hannah and Joe come
swinging out of the cage where they are penned
while the Victrola is put in place. Snuffling and
sniffling, their toe nails clicking on the pit floor, they
catch the strains of "The Sheik."
Episode two: They begin the search for the nigger
in the wood pile. Mollie's paw rips through the
wooden scroll work in front of the sounding box.
Joe discovers he can turn off the music by putting
one foot on the record.
Episode three: Mollie hauls off and strikes first
with her right and then her left. With three legs
gone, the machine topples and falls. She jumps up
and down with her fore feet until it is thoroughly
drowned. Joe and Hannah plunge in and the three
have a game of iceberg.
H A R D M A N , PECK & CO. ( F X ded )
HIGH GRADE
Practice Keyboards
Count George Hay Du Barry, Seattle, Piano Man,
Sacrifices Phonograph in Test.
CONN SAXOPHONES FOR SEXTETTE.
C. L. Brown's Saxophone Six, a nationally known
vauseville feature, is receiving wonderful press no-
tices throughout the West, stopping the show in
many of the high class vaudeville houses by a truly
remarkable program. The six players are using a
complete set of the most beautifully finished gold
Conn Saxophones in polychrome effect.
Owning and Operating the Autotone Co, makers of the
TELLS STORY OF HIS SONG
EFFECT OF JAZZ ON BEARS
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service
San Francisco Office
462 Vhelan building
'Departments
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
1222 KIMBALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
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