August 22, 1925.
PRESTO
25
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
SUPPLYING THE TEACHER
Topic of Discussion, Familiar to Every Sheet
Music Man, Said to Be Losing Its
Old Intensity.
The sheet music trade, like all the other phases of
the music business, has its eternal topic of discussion.
Wherever enough sheet music men to form a quorum
foregather they discuss, "Should the publisher solicit
the teacher for business when that is naturally the
work of the dealer?" And as, under the circum-
stances, two constitute a quorum, the question is
rather freely aired. Should someone venture the
statement that a common publishers' grouch is that
dealer representation is not always adequate the meet-
ing would possibly break up in disorder.
Perhaps a dealer might come back with the counter
jolt that a great percentage of music published is
mediocre and from a selling point impossible. He
could add, too, that the apathy of teachers in looking
over new music is proof of worthlessness in a lot of
it. They examine it in a bored way, as if they do not
expect to find anything desirable, being disappointed
so often.
But it is admitted that the question of teachers deal-
ing direct with publishers is not so warm as it used
to be. The custom has been worked out, as teachers
make so many returns each year they are getting
wearied of the added effort of sending direct when
they can give the "once over" to the publications at
the store of the local dealer without incurring ex-
pense of postage or express.
There are a great many publishers who admit that
the dealer is the proper medium of circulation to the
teacher. The personal equation enters into the sub-
ject. In the smaller places especially the teacher is
glad of the co-operation of the dealer who under-
stands the sheet music trade. The teacher learns to
trust his judgment because the dealer learns his or
her individual needs and can more easily supply them
than can the publisher to whom the teacher is just
one of many.
SONG HITS IN PORTLAND.
Maybelle Elliott, manager of the sheet music de-
partment of the Seiberling, Lucas Music Co., of Port-
land, Ore., reports the best sellers at present as fol-
lows: "Sometime" and "The Melody That Made
You Mine" (two Remick numbers), "Susie"
(Shapiro), "Moonlight and Roses" (Villa Moret),
and Feist's "Oh! Katrina." She also reports that
Sherman, Clay & Co.'s "Sad" and Remick's "Oh!
Say Can I See You Tonight" are also coming to the
front.
SOUVENIR SONG READY.
Sheet music copies of the song, "Janssen Wants
to See You," based on the mid-town Hofbrau's
famous thirty-year-old slogan, are being distributed
to dinner guests nightly, with the compliments of
August Janssen. The song is by Al Dubin, writer
of "Just a Girl That Men Forget," and Irving Aaron-
son, director of the Commanders Orchestra.
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Exchange and Attorney General's Fraud Bureau Are
Said to Be Conducting Investigations.
The New York Stock Exchange firm of Carden,
Green & Co., 43 Exchange Place, announces that the
firm would dissolve. No official information was
obtained regarding the dissolution of the firm.
The firm played a prominent part in the flotation
of radio company securities in 1924 and the early
months of 1923, when speculation in radio securities
was at its height on the New York Stock Exchange
and on the Curb Market. Two of the radio firms
which were financed by the firm were the Federated
Radio Corporation and the Freshman Radio Corpora-
tion.
It was reported in the financial district that follow-
ing the filing of a lawsuit which involved the sale
of stock in the Federated Radio Corporation, the
Stock Exchange authorities had started an investiga-
tion. At the offices of the firm it was admitted that
such an investigation had been made but no com-
ment was made.
An investigation of the affairs of the brokerage
firm is being carried on by the Attorney General's
Bureau for the Prevention of Frauds.
BIQ DAY FOR RADIO MEN
Annual Outing of Phonograph and Radio Associa-
tion Will Be on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
IMPORTANT RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT.
An article of unusual interest appears on a preced-
ing page under the heading of "A Remarkable Radio
Tube." It tells of the latest and characteristically
energetic promotion by the Q R S Music Co. of the
"Red Top Radio Tube." The latest development in
the essentials of good radio receiving is controlled by
the Q R S Company and the trade must be interested
in what is said on the subject on another page.
Read it.
The Talking Machine and Radio Men, Inc., will
have the annual outing of that association at Bear
Mountain on Wednesday, Sept. 2, and in "broadcast-
ing" the event E. G. Brown, secretary, of Hacken-
sack, N. J., cries aloud as follows:
"Come! Come!! Step this way, everybody! Prick
up your good ear! Why? 'Cause we're broadcastin'
the biggest event of the season. 'Let 'er go, boys.
Let's forget the past and make Wednesday, Septem-
ber 2, 1925, the start of a new, better and more pros-
perous year, by all joining with the Talking Machine
and Radio Men, Inc., for their annual outing at Bear
Mountain. Make it a bigger, better outing than ever
before—pep it up, boys, get back of it, boost it. Just
think of it, the fun of a lifetime crammed into one
day. You can't afford to miss it.
"The boat ride up the beautiful Hudson, taking
you away from cares and worries—dancing on the
boat—a bus ride from Bear Mountain landing
through the scenic hills to the Inn—and then the
luncheon with eats galore—drawing for prizes—base-
ball game and athletic events—swimming, bring
along your own suit—then the boat ride home—and
when you get back you'll say 'It's the finest day I
ever had in my life, and it only cost five dollars.'—
Yes, the tickets are only $5.00 this year."
To which Irwin Kurtz, president, blithely, in a spe-
cial letter, adds:
Dear Member:—Let's Go! Open up your cut-
out and put on full speed for a prosperous 1925-1926
season. Let the dead past bury its dead. Start the
new business year right by coming to the meeting
of your association on Wednesday, August 12, at
12:30 sharp, at the Cafe Boulevard, New York, and
bring a non member with you as our guest. Stew-
art-Warner is a name known to every automobile
owner. It is entering the radio field and will at this
meeting exhibit its wares, and tell us its sales poli-
cies. You must hear them. They will interest you.
Have you sent in your checks for the confidence
picnic to be held at Bear Mountain, September 2,
1925; if not do so at once.
Come, be on time, and bring that non member
with you.
Hudson River Day Line Boat to Bear Mountain,
leaves foot of Desbrosses street, New York, at 9:50
a. m.; West 42nd street, New York, at 10:10 a. m.;
West 129th street, New York, at 10:30 a. m.
RADIO CAST INTO RIVER.
Accused by the New York police of having thrown
$2,530 worth of radio transmitters into the East River
when they found themselves under surveillance, Sid-
ney Williams, a radio dealer, of West Twenty-fifth
street, Coney Island, and Jacob Silvershein, also a
dealer, of 1445 St. John's place, Brooklyn, were held.
The transmitters were stolen from the studios of WJZ
Broadcasting Station on April 22.
OPERADIO WINDOW DISPLAY.
The importance of a portable radio receiver to
one's happiness during the vacation period is the
theme of a window display of the Operadio portable
receiver by Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago. The
Operadio, which is an important and profitable addi-
tion to the big line of radio represented by the Chi-
cago store, is described as the ideal receiver to bring
in your favorite station while away on vacation.
THE "PANATROME."
The new Brunswick machine, called the Panatrome,
described elsewhere in this Presto, is equipped with
vacuum tube amplifiers and disk resonators and is
run either by batteries or by connection with an elec-
trical system. The new Victor machine of similar
nature, it was said, is non-electrical.
Julius J. Neumann, Chicago, has secured a patent
on a mouthpiece for a saxophone or clarinet.
THE RED TOP RADIO TUBE.
The Q R S Music Company took over some time
ago the Radio Essentials Corporation and the Red
Top Radio Tube that represents over two years' re-
search to construct a radio tube that would combine
power, quality, reception and rigidity and at the
same time eliminating microphone noises which are
found in most tubes. The three-color page in this
issue of Presto tells about the tube. And in a pre-
ceding part of this issue will be found more extended
reference to the latest Q R S -enterprise and
publicity.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
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REMICK SONG HITS
By the Light of the Stars
Sometime
Got No Time
Oh Say Can I See You Tonight
Sweet Georgia Brown
Swanee Butterfly
Old Pal
Don't Bring Lulu
We're Back Together Again
If I Had a Girl Like You
Everyone Home Is Asking for You
I'm Going to Charleston, Back to
Charleston
When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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