SHEET MUSIC TRADE
a drama written on a Biblical text and successfully
produced at Tremont Temple.
The Orchestra Music Supply Co., 1591 Broadway,
New York, has been sold to Al Haasse, New York
E. C. Mills Makes Topic His Text at Meeting of
manager for the McKinley Music Co., Chicago.
Society of Composers and Publishers.
Edbert Van Alstyne, composer of "In the Shade
At the recent annual meeting of the American of the Old Apple Tree," played the accompaniment of
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers held at the old-time hit recently in Des Moines, la., while 400
the Friars Club, New York, Gene Buck, president, old song fans sang it at a Chamber of Commerce
urged the organization to strenuously oppose the function.
A "Carrie Jacobs-Bond Week" was observed re-
radio broadcasters in their efforts "to divide the
ranks of the publishers and authors." Among those cently in the store of the John T. Ray Co., Holyoke,
who addressed the meeting were Victor Herbert, John Mass.
A bill providing for the free use of copyrighted
Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin, E. C. Mills, Sol Bloom
music by radio broadcasters, theaters, and others has
and others.
Mr. Mills, chairman of the Music Publishers Pro- been introduced in the House by Representative Wal-
tective Association, pointed out the gravity of the ter H. Newton of Minnesota.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond, composer of "A Perfect Day"
situation confronting the composer, author and pub-
lisher. More than ten million people are being enter- and other popular songs, who has been ill, has been
tained daily by radio programs. The fact, he said, ordered by her physician to take a rest in Hawaii.
Up to the end of last week fifty-two petitions and
had a bearing on the future of royalties.
memorials favoring the adoption of the "Star Span-
gled Banner" as the official national anthem, have
been received by Congress and referred to the Com-
mittee on Library.
FUTURE OF ROYALTIES
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting- to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
Glen Macdohough, 57 years old, musical-comedy
librettist, died this week at a sanitarium at Stamford,
Conn. He was author of "The Babes of Toyland."
Canada's imports of sheet music for November,
1923—the last month for which figures are available—
amounted to $37,549. This compares with $43,237 for
the preceding month.
Ernest R. Ball, the composer of "Mother Machree,"
"Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" and other
hits, held a reception last week in the Remick Song
& Gift Shop, Portland, Ore. Mr. Ball was a head-
liner at one of the theaters.
"I Wonder Who's Dancing with You To-night," a
Remick hit, is one of the best sellers in the sheet
music department of the Seiberling-Lucas Music Co.,
Portland, Ore.
"Just a Kiss," composed by Julius Westermeyer,
manager of the Georgia M«sic Co., Atlanta, Ga., is
one of the successes now making a good start with its
second edition.
Another successful Oliver Ditson window pro-
vided an attraction for Boston last week. The show
featured the score of the music for "After Six Days,"
REMICK SONG HITS
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Watchin' the Moonrise
I Wonder Who's Dancing With
You Tonight
If You'll Come Back
So I Took the Fifty Thousand
Dollars
Arizona Stars
Until Tomorrow
Somebody's Wrong
You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me
Twilight Rose
Nearer and Dearer
Land of Broken Dreams
Steppin' Out
You've Simply Got Me Cuckoo
Bring Back the Old Fashioned
Waltz
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
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April 12, 1924.
Chicago
Detroit
ACTIVE FOREIGN PUBLISHERS.
Bosworth & Co., Ltd., London, and elsewhere in
Europe, was founded 35 years ago by the late A. E.
Bosw r orth. It has several features of special interest,
not the least being the fact that it was established at
the suggestion of Sir Arthur Sullivan. It originated
in quite a small way in Leipzig with the immediate
object of protecting the Gilbert and Sullivan operas
from a copyright point of view, and to push them on
the continent generally. A. E. Bosworth and Karl
Kratochwill, with Thomas Chappell as sleeping part-
ner, were the original members of the firm. This
partnership, however, only lasted two years, and
thenceforth A. E. Bosworth alone steered the under-
taking to success. The house was soon known in
Germany, Austria and Scandinavia. In 1892 the Lon-
don house was established, and branches were opened
at Vienna in 1902, at Zurich in 1908, and at Brussels
in 1914.
Gene Buck Named in Papers Filed in U. S. Court by
Waterson, Berlin & Snyder.
Papers charging illegal methods, monopolistic in-
tent and illegal use of royalties to suppress attempts
at competition were filed this week in United States
Court, New York City, by Waterson, Berlin &
Snyder. The defendants named by the plaintiff are
Gene Buck, as president of the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers, and D. W. May,
Inc., who operate station WBS in Newark.
This suit, which is expected to come to trial be-
fore the middle of May, affects all music broadcast by
radio. Although only one station is named specific-
ally in addition to the organization selling the privi-
lege to broadcast music, it is estimated that every one
of the 500 stations in the United States is guilty of
the offenses against copyrights charged to station
WBS.
The papers state that Waterson, Berlin & Snyder
assigned to the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers the performance rights of
such works as it should produce up to January 1,
1926. This agreement was entered into on February
1, 1921, at a time when commercial broadcasting of
entertainment, as understood now, was not a fact
or an anticipated possibility.
UNJUST TO MUSIC DEALERS
English Publishers and Dealers Incensed by Liberties
Taken by London Weekly Paper.
The Music Trades Association of Great Britain re-
cently protested against the action of the "Popular
Music Weekly," a new magazine of music issued by
the Amalgamated Press, which contained certain
copyright popular songs, etc., of certain publishing
houses which dealers had stocked for sale at sheet-
music prices. Their appearance in a periodical which
could be bought for threepence was of course con-
sidered fatal to the dealer's chance of selling them.
The association thereupon took aGtion by issuing a
strong letter of protest to the publishing houses con-
cerned.
In reply the publishers named in the charge issued
a circular which expressed regret for what had oc-
curred and contained a guarantee by the firms that
CHARLES D. ISAACSON'S POEMS.
An unusual offering free to the public was pre- none of their future successes will appear in any
sented at DeWitt Clinton Hall, 59th street at 10th newspaper or magazine. They also guarantee that
avenue, New York city, last Sunday, April 6. Charles their over-stocks will not in future be sold by street-
D. Isaacson brought several poems from a collection hawkers, and they offer, finally, to accept from deal-
of his works being set to music by leading American ers returns of numbers over-stocked.
composers, including Richard Hageman, Frank La
Forge, Carl Venth, Hedy Spielter, Emil J. Polak,
KILLS BRITISH COPYRIGHT BILL.
Harvey Enders, Buzzi-Peccia, Rhea Silberta and
The House of Commons threw out the British
others. "A Poem of Strange Things" and "The Re-
r
turn" were read by Mr. Isaacson to the musical set- Copyright (Musical W orks) Bill, when, at the sec-
ond
reading,
the
House
was asked to restore it to the
tings, and sohie of the others were sung. Carlos
Valderamma occupied one-half of the program with position it had before 1911 with regard to perform-
his inca musrc, assisted by a group of eminent sing- ing rights. All the composer would have to do under
the bill was to print on the face of the music the
ers, dancers and musicians.
rights he wished specifically to be reserved, and then
theaters, cinemas and all the other trade organizations
COPYRIGHT IN FRANCE.
would know to whom they had to apply when they
The French composers are evidently as alert as wished to perform the music. In moving the rejec-
their American brothers to breaches of the protec- tion of the bill Sir H. Nield said he had been asked
tive copyright. A correspondent of Musique et In- to oppose it because it would enable piracy to take
struments writes as follows: "I sell phonographs, place more easily, and the brains of the musical
records, violins, etc. Now the Composers Rights So- author and those interested more easily to be picked.
ciety writes me a registered letter forbidding me to The second reading was negatived without a division.
demonstrate a record to a customer, as I am 'thus
giving a public concert,' for which the society requires
100 francs a year."
OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPOSERS.
The fourth annual competition for music composers
has been announced by the Male Chorus of Swift &
Co., the big Chicago packing house. The poems,
"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," by Shakespeare,
and "The Singers," by Longfellow, are suggested for
setting. The conditions of the contest require that
the composer be a citizen of the United States and
that the setting must be for a male chorus, with piano
accompaniment. A prize of $100 is offered, to be
awarded July 15.
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COMPOSERS' SOCIETY SUED
SONGS THAT SELL
"I Ain't No Sheik, Just Sweet Papa,
That's All."
"I've Got a Man of My Own."
"Houston Blues." "The Fives."
"Muscle Shoals Blues." "The Rocks."
"You Have a Home Somewhere."
"Up the Country Blues."
"Shorty George Blues."
"I've Found a Sweetheart."
"Mammy's Little Brown Rose."
and the Sensational Waltz Success
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