March 7, 1925.
25
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
RAGE OF RADIO
Within Three Years the New Industry and Trade
Has Become a $350,000,000 Proposition.
The radio industry in America has increased thirty-
five times in three years, says a Chicago Tribune
editorial. There are 3,000,000 receiving sets in oper-
ation. There are 10,000,000 regular listeners in. The
radio manufacturers are 3',00O in number. There are
about 570 licensed broadcasting stations. California
alone has forty-four in operation. In one year radio
sales amounted to $350,000,000. Our exports of it are
$300,000 a month.
The injection of a new $350,000,000 luxury into
American business in a period of three years is bound
to rock the boat considerably. It means the diversion
of funds from one amusement to another. It means
the diversion of human attention and time from one
way of having a good time to another. It means
also a net addition to business and good times that
may not be worth $350,000,000 a year, but certainly
is worth much.
TROUBLES OF ENGLISH FANS
Bill in Parliament Would Give Government Right
to Enter Homes Seeking Unlicensed Sets.
A bill has been introduced in the English parlia-
ment by the postoffice department giving the govern-
ment the right to enter private homes in search of
unlicensed radio sets. The postoffice authorities es-
timate the number of unlicensed sets in England to
be above 2,500,000.
About 300 radio societies have taken action against
the proposed measures, appealing to parliament to
throw out offensive bills, and the newspapers are
unanimous in opposition to the measures, claiming
they are in violation of the sanctity of the home.
It probably will be impossible to get parliament
to agree to the drastic bills asked by the postoffice,
which, in addition to giving the police power to
search private residences, provide twelve months at
hard labor, or £100 ($500) fine for persons con-
victed of the indictment of possesing unlicensed sets,
or three months at hard labor or £50 ($250) fine for
those summarily convicted.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
James Haley is the compiler of a lesson book for
music teachers just published by Sherman, Clay &
Co., San Francisco.
A number of select books on music, presented by
a citizen, has formed the nucleus of a music library
established in Tulsa, Okla.
Irving Mills and Jimmy McHugh, the "Hotsie-
Totsie Boys," are two members of the Jack Mills'
forces, who are becoming exceptionally popular with
Manufacturers of
R A D I O Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
radio audiences. They are using "Nobody Knows
What a Red-Head Mamma Can Do" as their chief
number.
Salter's Music Shoppe, 913 Orange street, Wilming-
ton, Del., is bringing trade to its store through clever
use of printer's ink.
Pat Flaherty, manager for the A. J. Stasny Music
Co., New York, visited Chicago this week to perfect
plans for opening an office there.
THE SONG OF "FLORIDA."
A picturesque setting for "Florida," the new Rob-
bins-Engel, Inc., New York, song and dance hit, was
a feature last week at the Fox Theater in Philadel-
phia. Director Erno Rapee introduced a male quar-
tette on the scene, depicting a corner of beautiful
Miami, and the song was rendered to repeated en-
cores. The McCrory store in Philadelphia tied up
with this novel exploitation by turning over an entire
window for the display of copies of "Florida."
AMERICAN RADIO IN MEXICO.
There are four radio broadcasting stations of con~
siderable size in Mexico, besides six smaller ones.
Government license, regulation, and inspection is re-
quired for all receiving, as well as sending, stations.
It is estimated that there are 20,000 receiving sets in
Mexico City, and 12,000 more in other parts of the
country, about 95 per cent of which are of American
origin, according to Commercial Attache Alexander
V. Dye, Mexico City.
COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS SUED.
Judgment has been returned against Edward S.
Hurst, proprietor of a dance hall in Atlanta, Ga., for
violation of the copyright laws, in a suit brought by
the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers. As a result M. Witmark & Sons and
Leo Feist, Inc., New York, each received $250 from
Hurst in settlement of claims. M. Rosenthal, sec-
retary of the society, says a nation wide campaign is
being waged against violators of the copyright laws.
CROSLEY GOING TO FLORIDA.
The appointment of Lewis M. Crosley to the posi-
tion of assistant general manager of the Crosley
Radio Corporation, of Cincinnati, makes it possible
for his brother, Powel Crosley, Jr., president and
general manager, to take a few weeks' vacation in
Miami, Florida. He will have a Trirdyn receiver
with him, as well as his golf sticks, for he believes
no vacation would be complete without them.
FREED-EISEMANN SALES.
Freed-Eisemann Radio Corporation announced
sales for the last quarter of 1924 (October 1 to De-
cember 1, 1924) of $2,016,560.36 on neutrodyne re-
ceivers under the Hazeltine patents.
There are more than 37,000 licenses held by opera-
tors of receiving sets in Sweden, and the government
is building a number of broadcasting stations through-
out the kingdom. About eighty-one per cent of the
wireless, telephone, and telegraph apparatus im-
ported in 1923 came from the United States.
Bremer-Tully LOW-LOSS Parts, AmerTran
Transformers
E-Z Toon Vernier Dials, and Kurz Kasch Dials
France Super Chargers
Celatsite, Acme Spaghetti, Aerial Wire, Enam-
eled and Plain, XL Model N Vario Densers,
Sonatron Tubes, Howard Parts, Carter Parts.
We specialize in building the Bremer-Tully Nameless
Set. Call at our office and see this wonderful set in
operation. If you are having any difficulty with your
Bremer-Tully Nameless, consult us, they are our
specialty, we will make it perk for you.
NELSON ELECTRIC CO.
Room 270, 508 S. Dearborn Street
CHICAGO
Telephone: YVabash 8719
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DENATURING OUR SONGS
How Prohibition Affects Some of the Good Old
Glees of Days Gone By.
A correspondent writing to the New York Times
says that it will he interesting to know that since
prohibition the music publisher has struck out the
stein from the famous "Stein Song." The chorus of
a famous song substitutes for "a stein on the table,"
"the handclasp of friendship." (Some one has sug-
gested "the hip-flask of friendship.") The same pub-
lisher has also mutilated the "Red, White and Blue,"
and where in the good old days we used to sing:
O, the w r ine cup, the wine cup, bring hither,
Come fill you it true to the brim
we find the following:
Old Glory to greet us bring hither,
With eyes full of love to the brim.
USING PRINTED MATTER
Title Pages, Strips, Posters and Hangers Generously
Provided by Publishers Effectively Stimulate Sales.
The sheet music stores which strongly impress
their character upon the passers-by are the ones
which utilize the title pages, cutouts, hangers and
other effective matter supplied by the publishers in
the way for which the things are designed. A show
window given over to one title exclusively, and the
display further embellished with the attractive hang-
ers, strips and posters, most effectively feature the
music and in every case results in big sales of the
number shown.
The sheet music dealers are more appreciative of
the matter when they bear in mind its expensive
character. To the conscientious dealer or department
manager, neglect to make timely use of the matter
would seem criminal waste. But the wise sheet music
man can readily see the great power of the decora-
tively printed matter for stimulating sheet music
sales. The onlookers who may have heard the name
of a song can vizualize the title.
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
ADVERTISING SONG BOOKS
Editor Presto: One of our customers inquires
about a collection of old-fashioned songs, suitable for
giving out to prospects and the general public. If
you can inform us where these are printed, you will
confer a great favor, and incidentally boost the piano
business, as it is a foregone conclusion that every-
one receiving a book will need a piano on which to
produce the accompaniments.—A Jobber.
Reply: About the best book of the kind within
our knowledge is put forth in quantities by the Illi-
nois State Register of Springfield, III. We believe
if you write to that concern you will get a sample of
about what you want.—Presto.
Over 50 songs, words and music for 4 -voices and piano,
32 p.p.. 6x9, in editions with special Illuminated coyer
printed to order as wanted. Mention Presto,
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