Presto

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PRESTO
May 5, 1923
SHEET MUSIC TRADE
that makes the running of it simple and practically
automatic. The methods for ordering and file listing
rolls and records now largely in use in music stores
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can be applied to the management of a sheet music
THE COMBINED CIRCULATION stock.
The spread of sheet music departments in regular
OF PRESTO (EST. 1884), AND MUS- music
stores, the enlarged stocks and facilities for
ICALTIMES (EST. 1881), IS BY FAR handling them in long established stores, show win-
dow featuring and printed publicity to a greater
THE LARGEST IN THE FIELD OF extent
than heretofore, and evidences of the new
THE MUSIC TRADE. COMBINA- efforts for
the sheet music goods.
TION RATES OF SPECIAL AT-
The reasons for the new display of energy are
TRACTIVENESS FOR ADVERTIS- obvious. It is the wider knowledge of the way to
easily attainable profits. The discontinuance
ING SPACE IN BOTH PAPERS gather
of the chain stores or some of them of the sheet music
WILL BE MADE TO MUSIC PUB- line has induced many dealers in musical instruments
to enter or reeuter the sheet music business. For
LISHERS.
the same reason drug stores and also stationery and
hardware stores have been induced to establish sheet
This department is designed to advance the sales music counters.
of sheet music, and give any current information in
It is a good sign that the regular music dealers
the Sheet Music Trade.
show a disposition to make the sheet music depart-
This publication believes that Sheet Music will ment a bigger one than heretofore and give it a better
pay the dealer, just as any other commodity pays chance to prove itself a clean and profitable branch
of the music business. It is a significant sign. The
those who merchandise it properly.
The conductor of this department will review return of the regular music store to a proper con-
any numbers that are sent in for the purpose. It is sideration for sheet music goods is a guarantee of
not the intent to criticise, but to review these offer- more ethical methods of distribution that will assure
ings, giving particular information of the theme and an era of prosperity in every phase of the business.
a description of the musical setting of the number
discussed.
Address all communications to Conductor Sheet
Music Dept., Presto, 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 111.
Theater Owners Who Meet in Chicago Next Month
Will Be Asked to Act.
TO PUBLISHERS
OPPOSE COPYRIGHT MUSIC TAX
NEW DAY IN SHEET MUSIC
Resolutions protesting against the so-called music
Many Significant Signs Point to More Ethical tax, which publishers propose to levy on theaters
which use copyrighted music, were adopted last week
Methods of Selling the Goods.
by the executive committee of the Motion Picture
Various signs denote the greater interest taken in Theater Owners, of Virginia, meeting at the Arling-
sheet music by regular music stores and other trades ton Hotel in Washington, D. C.
Music publishers propose to assess a tax on each
with music goods as a side line. One sign is the
When the
increased prominence given to the sheet music depart- theater, based on the seating capacity.
y
ment in the music stores proper. This sign is a most national convention of theater ow ners meets in Chi-
significant one and means that the department is cago this month, the Virginia association will ask
considered a direct profit maker rather than a mere that steps be taken to oppose the tax.
Members of the committee present yesterday: E.
trade bringer or indirect means of profits.
T. Grail, of Newport News, president; E. D. Hein,
From either point of view the sheet music counter of Roanoke, vice-president; Harry Bernstein, of
would be an advantage. But the shrewd dealers Richmond, secretary and treasurer; Jake Wells, of
today are aware of the large clean profits coming Richmond; I. Weinberg, of Lexington, and John
from a sheet music department properly handled. Pryor, of Danville.
And right there is the thought that suggests the
failure of a great many dealers to give the same
THE SUGGESTED CONTRACT.
attention to sheet music buying and stocking that
The suggested "Bill of Sale and Royalty Contract"
they give to musical instruments. A sheet music
counter will not run itself. There must be a system has been drawn up by the Music Publishers' Royalty
Contract Committee, composed of Isidore Witmark
of M. Witmark & Sons, chairman; Harold Flammer
of Harold Flamnier, Inc., and Walter Fischer of Carl
Fischer. These were prepared after careful study
of similar documents in use by the leading music
publishers, and are intended to combine the best
features found in all of them, and to be correctly
drawn up from a legal point of view, particularly
with reference to the clauses covering renewal of
copyright upon expiration.
7 FOREMOST SELLERS
SHEET MUSIC AT DRAKE
National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
Announce Dates for the Week
in Chicago.
The National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
will also add to the activities and gayeties of con-
vention week in Chicago beginning June 4, according
to the announcement made this week. The dates set
are June 7 and 8 and plans for the business sessions
are now being perfected. The number of music goods
merchants now handling sheet music is greater than
ever before and the fact assures a record attendance
at the meetings of the sheet music association.
Heretofore the meetings of the National Associ-
ation of Sheet Music Dealers has been held at a
different place and time from the other associations
combined in the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, although all the associations have an equal
interest in a great many matters. The dicision of
the sheet music men to be part of the Prosperity
Convention will cause general satisfaction. The con-
vention of the National Association of Sheet Music
Dealers at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, in June will be
the tenth annual event of the kind.
The officers of the association elected at the last
convention to serve one year are: Edward P. Little,
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, president; E.
Grant Ege, J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co., Kansas
City, Mo., vice-president; Thomas J. Donlin, Sam
Fox Publishing Co., New York, secretary and
treasurer.
RADIO AND ITS REWARD
Make Consumers Pay So That Author May Receive
His, Says N. Y. Times.
One reads that the controversy between radio
broadcasters and musical authors over the payment
of royalties on broadcast music will be a fight to the
finish, says the New York Times. The broadcasters
are indignant at the "hold-up by the music trust," and
can"t see why authors want money for their works
when the mere mention of their names is such valu-
able advertising for them. This view has been held
by others in times past, but the authors always won
out in the long run.
Just at present, to be sure, there are "scab" authors
and composers who are willing to let their songs be
broadcast free; but all experience shows that this
price-cutting will make little difference in the long
run. If a man's work is popular, he can get money
for it; and if he can get money, he will.
W T hat mystifies those who are neither song writers,
composers, music publishers nor radio broadcasters
is why the radio people and the artists waste their
time fighting each other when they are both being
JONAH
A WHALE OF
A SONG HIT
ONE STEP
FOX TROT
ELIZA DOYLE SMITH
BABE 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
SHEET MUSIC IN DENVER.
Interest in the third annual Music Week to begin
May 13 in Denver, Colo., has proved a source of
stimulation for the sheet music business according
to the general report of dealers there. The stimula-
tion has also been noticed in the music roll and
record departments. The music memory contest
accounted for the latter. The community singing
feature created an unusual demand for standard
books of songs and modern sheet music of a patriotic
kind.
Publisher
1 7 7 No. State St.
CHICAGO
F. R. Flannigan, Denver, and D. Z. Phillips, Pueblo,
have purchased the interests of Curtis Guttenberger
in the Hext Music Co., Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Childhood Days
When Shall We Meet Again
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Your Eyes Have Told Me So
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