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PRESTO
14, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
Detroit, to begin division of time with WLW.
Con-
ferences between the two stations failed to result in
RADIO IN PORTLAND, ORE. any
decision regarding the division of program time,
Expansion of Department Devoted to the Sets,
Accessories and Parts a Notable Feature
in Busy Oregon City.
The latest addition to the radio departments in
Portland, Ore., is that of Lipman, Wolfe & Co., one
of Portland's largest department stores. The de-
partment carries the Fada, Magnavox, Grebe, Radiola
Superheterodyne, Freshman Masterpiece and Crosley
sets. The department is in charge of C. F. Palmer,
who is assisted by B. C. Culver. The department has
been placed on the main«floor of the store while their
piano and sheet music departments are on the eighth
floor. In addition to the instruments they also carry
batteries, chargers and all kinds of radio accessories.
The radio jobbers, distributors and dealers of
Portland, Ore., and vicinity were addressed recently
by Thomas L. O. Fassett, of the technical depart-
ment of the Radio Corporation of America, who be-
fore coming to Portland visited Los Angeles, Salt
Lake City, Butte, Spokane and Seattle. He spent
two days in Portland and delivered three lectures
that were attended by 66 distributors and dealers of
Portland, Salem, Albany and Toledo, Ore. The pur-
pose of the lectures as explained by Mr. Fassett was
to make the distributors and dealers more familiar
with their radio equipment, so as to better service and
retain the good will of their customers.
The Seiberling, Lucas Music Co., of Portland, Ore.,
has added the Zenith radio to its radio department.
It now carries, in addition to the Zenith, the Bruns-
wick Radiola, the Radiola Corporation of America
and the Gilfillan lines. The company reports its
radio business increasing in volume from month to
month.
ARGUE RADIO=MUSIC APPEAL
Counsel for J. H. Remick & Co. and for Crosley
Co. Are Heard in Cincinnati.
Arguments in the appeal from the decree of Judge
Hickenlooper in Cincinnati in the suit of Jerome H.
Remick & Co., music publishers, against the Ameri-
can Auto Accessories Company, known also as the
Crosley Radio Corporation, of the Ohio city, were
heard in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
last week Friday.
The music publishing company and the American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of
which the Remick firm is a member, protested that a
song broadcast by radio from W L W station was in
violation of the music firm's copyright.
Judge Hickenlooper held that there was no in-
fringement of copyright. He asserted that if the
song had been played in a public hall there would
have been an infringement, but to broadcast it to an
unseen and unknown audience contained no evidence
of infringement.
Following the arguments the Circuit Court of Ap-
peal took the case under advisement.
RADIO BROADCASTERS CLASH
Cincinnati Has Fight in Ether, Which May Bring
About an Official Probe.
Cincinnati's radio controversy of nearly a year's
duration came to a climax when two local stations,
W L W and WMH, went on the air at the same time
with virtually the same wave length, 422.3 meters.
The stations are contesting a ruling from the depart-
ment of commerce in regard to the division of time
among radiocast stations.
Station WMH received telegraphic orders from S.
W. Edwards, radio inspector with headquarters at
MRS. STASNY RETURNS.
Mrs. A. J. Stasny, head of the A. J. Stasny Music
Co., Inc., of New York and London, returned last
week on the Mauretania from an extensive European
trip, during which time she visited her various offices
in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Austria and Scandinavian countries, and reports that
this trip was the most successful she had had due to
the fact that she was able to arrange many new con-
nections. As the result of her negotiations, Stasny
songs will be extensively exploited in Europe and
they will receive an international plug of gigantic
proportion.
SUCCESSFUL RADIO WINDOW.
The Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co., Jackson and
Wabash avenue, Chicago, has noticed a decided in-
crease in sales in the radio section of its retail de-
partment since the strengthening of its line of radio
merchandise. In connection with this an unusual
window display proved invaluable for its drawing
power. The new Mohawk receiver was selected for
the display in a window of brilliant lights and decora-
tions. Three styles of the one dial receiver are
shown.
NEW PUBLISHING FIRM.
Thomas J. Quigley is president and general man-
ager and Edgar A. Benson vice-president of Quigley
& Benson, Inc., music publishers with executive and
professional offices on the fourth floor of the Garrick
Theater Building, Chicago. Both gentlemen are
widely known in the sheet music trade. "Billy"
Thompson is sales manager and Ralph Foote man-
ager of the band and orchestra department.
CHANGE OF NAME.
The firm name of Breitkopf & Hartel, Inc., New
York, has been changed to Breitkopf Publications,
Inc. The house is the representative in this country
of the Leipzig house of Breitkopf & Hartel and the
change was made to avoid confusion and make a nec-
essary distinction between the catalogs of the two
houses. The publications of the Leipzig house will
continue to be handled by the New York concern.
DELAY IN SONG ACCEPTANCE.
"Texas, Our Texas," a song selected by an elimina-
tion committee to be adopted as the Texas state
song, has not been accepted finally by the Senate.
In a resolution the song was referred to the Commit-
tee on State Affairs and further entries invited. The
song was written by W. J. Marsh and Gladys
Yoakum Wright as an entry in the $1,000 prize con-
test.
BRITISH TRAVELERS MEET.
The Sheet Music Travelers' Association is an im-
portant English trade body, of which F. H. Stansfield
is president. At the annual meeting and dinner in
London recently sixteen of the best known concert
singers, humorists and instrumentalists took part in
the entertainment program.
Sam Silver, who wrote "Yes, We Have No
Bananas," is a popular radio broadcaster, who sings
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and as a result W M H went on the air at 7:55 p. m.
and W L W followed five minutes later.
The latter station, however, veered off the 422.3
wave length, reducing interference somewhat, but
causing a pronounced heterodyning in receiving sets
outside of Cincinnati, according to telegrams received
at the two stations.
Investigation by the department of commerce of
the wavelength war between radio stations W L W
and WMH in Cincinnati, will be confined to an in-
quiry whether either used a wave-length other than
that assigned to it.
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NOW COME HITS IN LATIN
At Least Such Is Hope of Prof. Flickinger of North-
western University.
"Sequi ellas Hirundinidae ad Domicilium" may
achieve the popularity of "Follow the Swallow," the
world-wide hit of Jerome H. Remick & Co., "if the
latest venture of Dr. Roy C. Flickinger, former dean
of the College of Liberal Arts of Northwestern Uni-
versity, Evanston, 111., is successful.
"It is highly desirable that there be no reaction
in the tendency to use Latin as a living tongue,"
says the educator, so he has issued a new book of
popular songs, the words in Latin with musical no-
tations. He hopes that this Latin song book will be
used throughout the world.
"The Star Spangled Banner" appears in the book
in Latin dress, as does "America," "Prairie Flowers,"
the familiar round, "Brother John," entitled "Frater
Johannie," and many others.
"The Spartan Marching Song," written about 650
B. C, is translated into Latin and set to the tune of
"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." Religious songs
are included in the volume.
THE BRUNSWICK CONTEST.
Metropolitan Opera stars took part for the first
time in a music memory contest this week, when
stations WJZ, New York; WGY, Schenectady, and
WRC, Washington, broadcast the first of four pro-
grams under auspices of the Brunswick-Balke-Col-
lender company. Similar broadcasts have been ar-
ranged at the same hour for the evenings of Feb.
10, 17, and 24.
"CHICKIE" A SUCCESS.
"Chickie," the new fox trot, composed by Phillip
Spitalny, with words by George Davis, of the Cleve-
land Press, is receiving a large amount of free news-
paper publicity, and is being pushed by most of the
leading sheet music houses in the city.
REMICK SONG HITS
My Best Girl
Me and the Boy Friend
Old Pal
I Can't Stop Babying You
Somebody Like You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Dreamer of Dreams
Follow the Swallow
Mandalay
It Had to Be You
There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes
Until Tomorrow
New Kind of Man
Little Black Buddy
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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