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followed. One of the automobile party and a witness
to the assault was Charles Marsh, the song-writer.
The Duncan case was called on Tuesday of this
week
before Justice of the Peace Henry J. Sandusky,
(Conductor of Band at Democratic Convention Sees
of Cicero. Miss Rosetta Duncan did not appear to
Humor in Distressing Situations.
answer the charge for violation of a minor traffic
The band at the night session July 4, of the Dem- law. The case was continued for fourteen days.
Indictments of the police charged with assaulting
ocratic national convention played "It May Be for
Years and It May Be Forever." A resolution to ad- Miss Rosetta Duncan and her brother, Harold, were
journ that came from a Colorado delegate wearied demanded this week by the Duncan family attorneys.
To prevent any possible slip in the voting of in-
of the monotonous balloting was so "the so-called
1 leaders may have more time to decide what they dictments against the three policemen, Chief Theo-
dore L. Svoboda and Officers Charles Widlock and
I want to do."
It was only one instance of the humorous appro- Benjamin Delaney, the evidence for the grand jury
priateness of the music to the occasion which has was prepared by the Duncans' attorneys and pre-
stamped the leader of the band as a humorist. When sented to State's Attorney Crowe.
motion to adjourn until the following morning finally
came the band struck up Remick's "Until Tomor-
row." Another Remick song suited the occasion
when the presiding officer, Senator Walsh, returned
after an unusually prolonged absence and relieved the A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
temporary chairman. The popularity of Senator
Department Are Printed.
Walsh was evinced when the convention delegates
Ralph
Blake
is temporarily in charge of the sheet
smilingly applauded Remick's "It Had to Be You."
Late on Friday night when a motion to adjourn music department of the Wiley B. Allen Co., Port-
was defeated, the humorous conductor had his band land, Ore., in the absence of manager Louis Mack.
Keeping up the sheet music stock and closely ob-
play "Linger Awhile." In the noisy parade when
Michigan switched a big bunch of its votes from serving the trend of popular taste is the way to good
Davis to Smith, "Yes Means No" seemed to the and continuous sales, according to R. J. Gierach,
band leader to fit. On Thursday night when ballot manager of the sheet music department of the Kessel-
after ballot prolonged the session exasperating the man-O'Driscoll Co., Milwaukee.
Theater organists in many cities are now credited
delegates who were fagged, they were forced to smile
when the everlastingly fresh bandsman tooted "Yawn- with effective stimulation of sales for popular music.
The sheet music section of the Metropolitan De-
ing" and "We.Won't Go Home 'Till Morning."
partment Store, San Jose, Cal., is reported a great
success.
The Los Angeles, Calif., store of the G. Schirmer
Music Store, Inc, will move from 639 South Hill
street to >16 South Broadway, September 1.
Popular Actress and Member of New Music Publish-
The Al Williams Orchestra, Providence, R. I., last
ing Firm Injured by Cicero Police.
week cleverly featured the Remick song, "I Wonder
Who's Dancing with You Tonight."
Rosetta Duncan, who with her sister comprise the
C. A. Woodman, of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston,
firm of the Duncan Sisters Publishing Co., Chicago, is enjoying a vacation with his family in the Artists'
July 4 received rough treatment from the police of
Colony, Nantucket, Mass.
Cicero, a Chicago suburb, in which she suffered a
fractured nose, a fractured rib, deep lacerations upon
MUSIC IN MILWAUKEE.
the head and with two black and swollen eyes. She
Leslie C. Parker, president and manager of the
charges she was beaten by several policemen of the
town of Cicero, whose action was approved by the Carberry-Parker Co., Milwaukee, the official repre-
sentative of the music trade on the board of directors
chief, Capt. Theodore L. Svoboda.
Miss Duncan and her sister Vivian, the "Topsy of the Civic Opera Association organized to give
and Eva" respectively of the show of the name at a outdoor opera in Milwaukee parks this summer. The
Chicago theater, and their brother Harold with some activities will be extended to giving operas in the
friends were riding in an automobile driven by the theaters in the winter. The music group which Mr.
brother, who is a composer of songs. One of his Parker represents is one unit in the organization of
recent compositions is now being sung in "Topsy and business men formed to encourage music.
Eva."
For failure to notice a boulevard stop sign in
BIRMINGHAM DEALER DIES.
Cicero, a policeman arrested Harold and took him
Abe Williams, associated with his father in the Wil-
upstairs in the station to be booked. While waiting liams Music House, dealers in sheet music and small
in the machine outside Miss Duncan upbraided the goods, Birmingham, Ala., died last week at the age of
two policemen standing by the door. The cops, ac- 32. Mr. Williams, who had been ailing for three
cording to Miss Duncan, resented it and the assault
months, was a clever musician, and a member of the
Ugly Brothers Minstrels, a popular Birmingham
organization.
SAYING IT WITH POPULARS
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
ROSETTA DUNCAN CLUBBED
REMICK SONG HITS
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
I Wonder Who's Dancing with You
Tonight
There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes
Hula Hula Dream Girl
It Had to Be You
Mandalay
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
Until Tomorrow
Twilight Rose
Watchin' the Moonrise
Counting the Days
Not Yet Susette
Arizona Stars
If You'll Come Back
Land of Broken Dreams
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
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PRESTO
July 12, 1924.
Chicago
COMPOSERS WIN PRIZES.
Composers of Dallas, Tex., won all three firsts in
the recent annual concert staged by the San Antonio
Music Club. Frank Renard was awarded a first
prize for a composition on stringed instruments, Paul
van Katwijk took the first prize in vocal composi-
tion and David Guion won first place in the piano
compositions.
The action of many of the larger broadcasting sta-
tions in signing up with the Sheet Music Publishers'
Association will put a number of late hits "on the
air," according to Mr. Bunning of Lyon & Healy's
wholesale department, who predicts that this fall
will see many sales records shattered.
Senator James Walker of New York Gets Royalty
Check on a Famous Ballad.
The old songs never die, they say. This may prove
it, only it doesn't, for thousands of good old songs
which once won success are now as dead as the well-
known herring.
Senator James Walker, Democratic leader of the
New York State Senate, who twenty years ago wrote
"Will You Love Me in December as You Do in
May?" acted as reading clerk of the Democratic Con-
vention late Tuesday night. Shortly after he left the
platform a friend found him sitting in his delegation,
smiling.
"Like the job, Senator?" he was asked.
"No," he explained; "I just got word that I'm about
to get another royalty check on the old song.''
Nevertheless, it would worry the oldest sheet music
man to recall the time when Senator Walker's song
was such a great success. It may have sold enough
to pay the Senator some royalties—but not very
much.
PUBLISHING FIRM INCORPORATES.
The South Bend Music Publishing Co. was incor-
porated recently at South Bend, Ind., with a capital
stock of $10,000. The purposes of the company, as
given in the notice is to publish, buy and sell music
compositions. Adolph Franic, George DeView and
Goze Orbon are named as the incorporators.
GOOD SHEET MUSIC REPORT.
Sales of both standard and popular sheet music and
books are well ahead of last year and gaining daily,
in the sheet music department of Lyon & Healy,
Chicago. This condition reflects continued interest in
music on the part of the general public as well as the
greater activity of teachers and summer schools.
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Forget Me Not
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Bringin' Home the Bacon
My Dream Moon
Waiting for the Rainbow
Only a Butterfly
June
Broken Dreams
Lovers Lane Is a Lonesome Trail
If I Had You
I'm Falling in Love With a Shadow
Just a Lullaby
In a Wonderful World of Our Own
Someone Else
(Took Your Place in My Heart)
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