January 17, 1925.
25
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
T. J. DONLAN'S PLAN
Secretary of National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers in Letter to Trade An-
nounces Scheme for Long Sought
Clearing House.
The plans of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers for a clearing house and a credit and
collection bureau are explained in a letter to the
trade from Thomas J. Donlan, secretary-treasurer
of the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers.
The clearing house and the bureau are projects fre-
quently discussed by the association collectively in
convention and individually by the members in
letters to the trade and to the trade press. The
necessity for a clearing house is particularly urgent.
Special orders for odd and unknown publications
give the average dealer more worry than any other
detail in the music business. There would be a great
deal of satisfaction in knowing he could procure
any publication available, which a customer might
ask for.
Mr. Donlan's Scheme.
Mr. Donlan's letter giving details of the clearing
house and credit and collection bureaus follows:
"The long-desired clearing house and general in-
formation bureau for the retail sheet music trade can
be established early this year. A general index of
American music publications and a retail credit rating
and collection bureau will be included in this estab-
lishment.
"The success of this forward step for the sheet
music trade is entirely dependent upon the response
from association members in the form of subscrip-
tions to the service. The general index will first be
in the form of a card system in the clearing house.
A printed catalog will become a possibility after the
card index is far enough developed. In the meantime,
information concerning any publication will be listed
on cards as soon as they appear. Information con-
cerning foreign music publications will be supplied if
obtainable. Orders for miscellaneous publications
will be listed on cards as soon as they appear. In-
formation concerning foreign music publications will
be supplied if obtainable. Orders for miscellaneous
publications will be filled by the clearing house or
transferred to the proper publishers or importers if
desired. Foreign music that is not obtainable in this
country will be imported.
Credit Plan.
"The Credit Rating Bureau will distribute once a
month an alphabetical list of names and last-known
addresses of all delinquent debtors reported during
the preceding month, stating the amount due from
each delinquent.
"The Collection Bureau will endeavor to collect all
overdue accounts placed by subscribers for collection,
also such claims as may be handed in for collection
with the request that listing be deferred until the de-
linquent has been asked to pay.
"Information on all other matters pertaining to the
sheet music business will be systematically compiled
and made available to subscribers with a view to giv-
ing all possible assistance and protection and reduc-
ing to a minimum the work and worry in the carry-
ing on of business, also to increasing the volume of
sheet music sales.
The Clearing House.
"The clearing house will be conducted under the
direction of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, which has similar bureaus in successful opera-
tion for the other branches of the music industry.
"The operating of this new association activity will
require the services of experienced workers. As the
present income of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers is inadequate for the financing of the
project each member who wishes to use the service is
asked to subscribe five dollars ($5) per month in
accordance with the resolution adopted by the asso-
ciation in convention June 10, 1924. As soon as
enough subscriptions have been received the clearing
house will start operating.
"Ever since the association was organized there has
been an insistent demand for a clearing house, a re-
tail credit rating and collection bureau and a general
catalog.
"With the above-mentioned trade association ac-
tively functioning the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers will no longer be a trade association
in name only, but a real, live, active organization."
A subscription blank for the use of dealers who de-
sire to participate in the activities and the benefits of
the proposed new work is attached to the letter.
JACK MILLS IN CHICAGO
New York Publisher Opens Office in Garrick Theater
Building This Week.
Willie Horowitz has been made manager of the
new Chicago office of Jack Mills, music publisher,
New York. The new office is in the Garrick Theater
building.
Mr. Horowitz recently resigned from the profes-
sional staff of Stark & Cowan to accept the western
post for Jack Mills. Mr. Mills, himself, has been
in Chicago the past week renewing old friendships
and helping make the opening an auspicious event.
He will visit all the important trade centers in the
middle west before he returns to his New York head-
quarters.
It is the plan of the head of the "House That
Jack Built" to open up offices in all the important
cities throughout the mid-west.
BOSTON MUSIC PUBL'RS. ASSN.
Recent Change in By-Laws Provides for Expansion
and Increased Membership.
By a change in the by-laws of the Boston Music
Publishers' Association effected at a recent meeting
at the Westminster Hotel, Boston, music dealers and
music publishers in the New England field outside
of Boston became eligible for membership in the
association.
The next meeting, to be held in February, will
be the annual one at which the new officers and com-
mittees will be elected. At the closing meeting of
1924, held at the Westminster Hotel, President W.
Leane Preston, Jr., appointed a committee to name
a list of officers to be voted upon. The nomination
committee consists of Charles W. Thompson, Harry
Crosby and C. A. Woodman.
GREAT WAR TIME SONG
Newspaper Item Recalls the First Appearance of
Henry C. Works' "Marching Through Georgia."
In the "From The Tribune's Files" of sixty years
ago, in last Sunday.'s Chicago Tribune, that paper
reproduced the following interesting item:
" 'Marching Through Georgia' is the name of a
new song in honor of Gen. Sherman's march "from
Atlanta to the sea,' by Henry C. Work. The sub-
ject, treated as it is in Mr. Work's most popular
style, will insure for the song a great success, or we
are greatly mistaken."
The composer of "Marching Through Georgia"
was one of the foremost American song writers. He
was a printer who went into the office of George
F. Root, whose "Battle Cry of Freedom" had become
suddenly popular, and offered the mss. of the song
which shot into almost equal demand. Very few
other song writers of any time have as many suc-
cesses to their credit as Henry C. Work.
ANOTHER FRANK SILVERS HIT.
Irving Mills and his associates in radio programs
are becoming exceptionally popular with listeners-in.
The boys gave three performances the last week, ap-
pearing on Stations WHN, WBS and WDBX in
New York. Irving Mills, in the stellar role of the
outfit, sings "What Do We Get from Boston" and
"Nobody Knows What a Red Head Mamma Can
Do." Ruth Roye added the first number to her
repertoire last week in Newark, and it "stopped the
show." Frank Silvers, who gave an appreciative
world "Yes, We Have No Bananas," is the author
•of the number.
A REMICK VERDICT.
Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York, won a ver-
dict in the United States Supreme Court in Boston
recently in a suit against the Globe Theater for vio-
lation of the copyright laws in rendering "Barney
Google" on the organ. Damages of $200 and costs
of $100 were allowed by the court.
A BALDWIN RADIO PROGRAM.
A classical program was broadcasted January 10
by the Congress Hotel-Westinghouse Station KYW,
Chicago, through the courtesy of the Baldwin Piano
Company. Miss Faye Forsythe, pianist; Clyde E.
Moffett, Troy Sander and others took part.
"Waltz in E flat"
REMICK SONG HITS
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for the Pianoforte
by Clark Ernest Pyle.
A beautiful waltz for recital,
teaching and home use.
Published by
CLARK ERNEST PYLE
437 W. Main St.
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Order from your dealer or direct from Publisher
Mandalay
It Had to Be You
There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes
Dreamer of Dreams
Follow the Swallow
New Kind of Man
My Best Girl
Me and the Boy Friend
Little Black Buddy
Until Tomorrow
Old Pal
Goodnight, Sleep Tight "
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Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
The Grass Is Always Greener (In the
Other Fellow's Yard)
J. H. REMICK & CO.
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