Presto

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PRESTO
July 18, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
PRIZES FOR COMPOSERS
Promoters of Sesquicentennial International
Exposition to Be Held in Philadelphia
in 1926 Publish Notice.
Desirous of making the Sesquicentennial Inter-
national Exposition which will be held in Philadel-
phia from June to December, 1926, in celebration of
the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declara-
tion of Independence, memorable in musical annals
as well as in all other respects, the exposition man-
agement is offering prizes for artistic effort in the
musical art.
An opera, a symphony, a choral work, a choral
suite, and a ballad, pageant or masque are expected
to be produced through the competition and will be
presented during the sesquicentennial as a part of the
music program.
The competition is open to persons of all nation-
alities, in this country and abroad.
A prize of $3,000 is offered for the opera, a prize
of $2,000 for the symphony, or a large orchestral
work of symphonic character, a prize of $2,000 for a
ballet, pageant or masque, with full orchestral ac-
companiment, not excluding choral episodes and a
prize of $500 for an a-capella choral suite of three
or four numbers, the name to be written for six or
eight mixed voices. The text of the suite is to be
left to the composer.
The prize competition is in charge of a sub-com-
mittee of the Committee on Music of the Sesquicen-
tennial, which main committee is headed by Cyrus
H. K. Curtis, with Dr. Herbert Tily as vice-chair-
man.
James Francis Cooke, editor of "The Etude," is
chairman of the competition committee, and Henry
S. Fry, organist of St. Clement's P. E. Church, is
executive secretary of the committee.
All compositions are to be submitted through Mr.
Fry and are to have a full orchestral score written
legibly in ink with a nom de plume accompanied by
an envelope containing the full name and address
of the composer. No work will be eligible that has
been published or previously performed. The win-
ning composer is to retain all rights of performance,
REMICK SONG HITS
I Can't Stop Babying You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Swanee Butterfly
By the Light of the Stars
Old Pal
Somebody Like You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
Don't Bring Lulu
Take Me Back to Your Heart
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
except the premiere and such extra performances as
may be determined by the committee.
The manuscript of the opera must be submitted
by March 1, 1926, a full orchestral form, accom-
panied by a full pianoforte score for rehearsal pur-
poses. The prize will be adjudged by May 1.
No conditions are fixed for the length or for the
number of acts. The only stipulation is that it be
of a serious musical character. The text must be
in English.
RADIO AMATEURS TO MEET
Event to Be Held at Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chi-
cago, Aug. 18 to 21.
Amateur radio enthusiasts in great numbers from
the United States and Canada, and to some extent
from Europe and other countries, will gather at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago Aug. 18 to 21
to attend the third national convention of the Amer-
ican Radio Relay League.
The convention, the first in two years, is being
staged under the auspices of the Chicago Radio Traf-
fic Association. Among the men prominent in the
radio world expected to attend the convention are
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and C.
Francis Jenkins, inventor of radio photography and
radio motion pictures.
Another part of the convention work that will
be of great interest is the gathering of radio teleg-
raphers in the traffic field.
So important is this gathering from the govern-
mental standpoint that provisions are being made for
the examination of visiting operators who are seeking
licenses for transmitting stations. This work will be
in charge of Supervisor of Radio Beane of the Ninth
Radio District.
THE TRAVELER'S HOPE CHEST
Song That Concerns Knights of the Road Which Is
the Reign in New York.
A song that is winning applause in New York
segms to have a special appeal for the "boys on the
road," the piano travelers with the rest. The song
is called "Towels! Towels!" and is sung by Harry
Fox in "Scandals." It runs as follows:
I have got a hope chest
And from day to day,
I just fill my hope chest
With things I take away.
Always in my travels
I pick up something new;
I've a big collection
That I'd like to show to you.
Here's the towel that I got from the Astor,
Here's one from the Drake in Chi;
And one, brand new,
From the Statler, too,
And the Ritz kissed this good-bye!
Here's a beaut from the Biltmore,
Where the house detective scowls;
But this one's swell,
From the Mills Hotel;
Just towels, towels, towels!
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
WESTERN DEALERS UNITE
Pacific Coast Sheet Music Protective Association
Formed During Recent Convention in Los Angeles.
That the sheet music department is one of con-
siderable importance in the music store of the west
is evidenced by one result of the recent convention
of the Western Music Trades Association in Los
Angeles. That was the formation of the Pacific
Coast Sheet Music Protective Association which was
immediately made a unit of the Western Music
Trades Association.
Robert Matthews of Los Angeles is president of
the new association and Carl Kritner of the Schirmer
Music Co., Los Angeles, is secretary. The board of
directors are Ed P. Little of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
San Francisco; A. L. Purdy of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
Portland, Ore.; Ray Jefferies, Thearle Music Co,
San Diego; William Belros, Oakland, Cal., and
Harry Woods, Seattle, Wash.
One of the first results was the organization of a
committee to establish a credit bureau for the pro-
tection of sheet music dealers of that section.
PUBLIC LIBRARY LOANS MUSIC
Novelty in Management of Loan Service Inaugu-
rated at Station at 121 East 58th Street.
A need among music students and musicians not
hitherto satisfied in New York City, is now being
met by the special division of the circulation depart-
ment of the New York Public Library, which is
located at 121 East Fifty-eighth street. At the main
library on Fifth Avenue there is a considerable col-
lection of musical scores, but one must examine them
on the premises. The new development at Fifty-
eighth street offers this novelty: One may find the
scores of all the ultra-modern music and may take
them home for study. The object of this library ex-
pansion is to help in the understanding of all the
new music that is performed in New York's concert
halls.
This work is carried on through the Music Library
Fund. Various persons who are leaders in New
York's musical philanthropies established the initial
fund. A later contribution comes from a group of
persons who are mostly members of the Philhar-
monic Society's board of directors. It is promised
as a three-year endowment. The first installment
w r as spent in Europe for the newest music and for
the best collections of folk songs from several coun-
tries. An effort has been made to buy with each
gift of money the particular music in which the donor
has been interested.
Foreign visitors have described this library as the
foremost lending music library in the world. The
music librarian of the Fifty-eighth street branch is
Dorothy Lawton.
SING REMICK HITS.
George Price, Victor recorder who recently ap-
peared in Portland, Ore., with the "Passing Show"
and was cordially received, featured the Remick num-
bers, "Oh, Maw! Oh, Paw! Isn't She the Sweetest
Thing," and petite Flo Bert with the same company
also used a Remick number, "The Boy Friend and
Me."
MUSIC PUBLISHER MOVES.
Melrose Bros. Music Co., Chicago, formerly lo-
cated in Cohan's Grand Opera House, moved last
week to larger quarters in Room 507 Loop End
Building. All of the music publishing companies
located in Cohan's Grand Opera House will have
to find new quarters as the building is to be torn
down and replaced with a larger structure.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
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