Presto

January 31, 1925.
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PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
NEW REMICK FAVORITES
"Me and the Boy Friend" and "My Best Girl" Prov-
ing Big Profit Makers.
"Me and the Boy Friend," a recent release by
Jerome N. Remick & Co., promises to be a bigger
hit than its successful predecessor of the last year.
It is being sung in public in many places with the
usual result in big sales at the sheet music counters.
Last week following the broadcasting of the song by
WGR, in Buffalo, as played by the Vincent Lopez
Hotel Statler Orchestra, a surprising number of calls
for it came to the Buffalo dealers.
"Dreamer of Dreams" and "Follow the Swallow"
still continue big favorites with sheet music buyers.
Big calls for the songs are reported in every city in
the country.
"My Best Girl" is another Remick song, widely
chosen by theater organists for feature work. The
lively melody lends itself to an attractive arrange-
ment.
SUN'S RAYS AFFECT RADIO
Interesting Tests Made in Chicago During Eclipse
Made Public by Zenith Corp.
Last Saturday the eclipse afforded science the op-
portunity to clear up some radio mysteries. The sun
and moon came to the rescue and obligingly turned
off the switch for a couple of hours. The moon
passed in front of the sun. It was "dark." It was
not "night." And radio, according to the official
testers, learned:
The sun's rays are responsible for the reduced
power of broadcasting during the day. Or, more
formally, ionization of the air in the day time due
to the sun's rays causes absorption of the electro
magneto wave.
Harold Gray of the research department of the Ze-
nith Radio Corporation, who made the tests, declared
this information was only a point of departure for
still further revelations.
"Now we have something definite to work on," he
said. "Before, all we knew was that the power was
about one-tenth during the day of what it is at
night."
Standing at his receiving station in Chicago, Gray
REMICK SONG HITS
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
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
The Grass Is Always Greener (In the
Other Fellow's Yard)
Chicago
MRS. PETRI'S BOOK SELLS
Sheet Music Dealers of Portland, Ore., Find Work
on Playing Methods Interests Students.
A book of more than common interest to music
teachers and students has been published by the
Gambel Hinged Music Co., of Chicago, and has been
placed on the sheet music counters of the prominent
dealers of Portland, Ore. It is entitled "Mind Over
Muscle, a Technical Economy for Pianists," and is
composed by Lillian Jefferys Petri, who is head of
the piano and theory department of the Oregon Agri-
cultural College, School of Music. Mrs. Petri ac-
cepted the position at the college last fall, and for-
merly was prominent in Portland musical circles and
was for years president of the Oregon Federation of
Music Clubs.
The work aims to exploit no method, but rather to
bring the various methods into reconciliation. It
corrects the activities of the entire playing apparatus,
takes the prominent points of the old European finger
stroke method, the unified finger of the Leschetezky
work, and the modern weight method, explains them,
and serves to develop piano technic upon a broad
basis. It will be of great advantage to the teacher,
in that it will make the student think more specifically
when practicing, and make him more thoughtful and
careful.
STEGER RETAIL ADDS MOHAWK.
The Steger & Sons Mfg. Co., Wabash and Jack-
son, Chicago, has expanded its line of radio and now
many different types of receivers are represented.
The necessity of a wide line is considered an impor-
tant item in the retail department of the Chicago
store. Portable receivers, crystal sets and other radio
apparatus is displayed side by side in the Steger
corner window this week. A new addition to the
line is the Mohawk receiver which is known in the
trade as the one dial receiver.
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NEW COPYRIGHT BILL
Patents Committee of House Listens to Plans of
Those Interested in Measure.
A new copyright bill before the Patents Committee
of Congress would give authors, composers and art-
ists exclusive control of their works, including their
distribution by means of radio. It would extend the
life of their copyrights until fifty years after their
deaths, as well as permit this country to enter the
International Copyright Union.
Among those interested in the bill heard before the
committee last week was Augustus Thomas, who
exalted authors and makers of music far above Wall
Street's kings of finance, the statesmen of Washing-
ton, the warriors of the nation, or the priests of the
world.
The emotional appeal of "What'll I Do?" "Pigs Is
Pigs" and "Down Where the Wurzburger Flows,"
according to Mr. Thomas' argument, is akin to that
found in all philosophy and religion.
Charles K. Harris, who wrote "After the Ball," sat
forward and drank it all in. So did Con Conrad,
author of many jazzy pieces, and J. Hartley Manners,
husband of Laurette Taylor and the man who wrote
"Peg o' My Heart."
THE CLAYTON F. SUMMY CASE
Similar Hearings Before Federal Trade Commission
Held in New York and Elsewhere.
The Federal Trade Commission continued its hear-
ings in the Clayton F. Summy case in New York the
week beginning Monday, January 19. On Monday
Alfred L. Smith, secretary of the Music Publishers'
Association of the United States, appeared as a wit-
ness for the Commission. There also appeared
George Fischer, president of the Association, Walter
Fisher, M. E. Tompkins and J. T. Roach, members
of the board of directors who also testified as music
publishers.
These hearings are a continuation of those com-
menced in Chicago and are brought about by action
of the Commission in its attempt to enforce the reso-
lution adopted by the publishers in a trade practice
submittal in October, 1923, and agreed to by the Fed-
eral Trade Commission to the effect that the proper
method of marking sheet music is to print the price
at which it is expected the music will sell at retail
under conditions of normal competition rather than
fictitious prices.
During the week hearings also were held in Boston
and in other parts of the country.
FEATURES REMICK SONG HIT.
"My Best Girl," the new hit of Jerome H. Remick
& Co., has been accorded a big demand at Lyon &
Healy, Inc., Chicago, and accordingly the Chicago
house is featuring the popular hit in one of its big
Wabash avenue windows. The display has been re-
sponsible for instant demands of this number, as it is
one of the big attractions along Piano Row. A life
size painting of a girl, which makes the display a
colorful one, causes many passers-by to pause.
RADIO SPACE INCREASED.
Owing to the increase in business in the retail radio
department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, a recent re-
arrangement of floor space has been made necessary.
The space heretofore occupied by the entire depart-
ment on the first floor of the company's Chicago re-
tail store will now be devoted exclusively to acces-
sories and the smaller types of radio sets. The dis-
plays of the larger Radiolas and other receiving ap-
paratus will occupy a separate space on the second
floor.
CLARK ERNEST PYLE
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
heard the announcer broadcasting from WJAZ at
Iron Mountain, Mich., on a wave length of 268 me-
ters, from 4 a. m. until after the solar eclipse. Tests
of the same nature made at Northwestern university
were unsuccessful, it was announced. At no time was
the station able to hear WJAZ, eastern station in the
shadow belt, although Cincinnati and Louisville, be-
low the belt, were picked up.
For the first time in radio history, broadcasts in
daylight from America, were caught in England. Not
only that, but stations in England picked up clear as
bell tones, messages from Melbourne, Australia, and
from Mosul in Mesopotamia.
But there is the balance wheel of the short wave in
radio, and when the shadow of the moon yesterday
created night conditions radio experts learned also
about the short wave.
From tests made by the Radio Corporation of
America it was deduced that a short wave length
follows the sun, whereas a long wave length, irregular
before the eclipse, became noticeably regular during
totality.
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