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October 3, 1925.
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SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
TO PROBE "MUSIC TRUST"
Representative MacGregor Assails the Ameri-
can Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers.
Representative Clarence MacGregor, Republican,
of Buffalo, told the New York Times correspondent
last Saturday that at the opening of Congress in De-
cember he would ask for an investigation of what he
described as the "music trust."
The "music trust," according to Mr. MacGregor, is
"better known as the American Society of Compos-
ers, Authors and Publishers."
The purpose of the proposed inquiry, said Mr.
MacGregor, will be to determine "precisely how the
organization is using the Copyright law to exact trib-
ute from the public." He added:
"It is unthinkable that the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers should be per-
mitted to continue the practices it indulges in under
cover of the Copyright act.
"I propose immediately upon the opening of Con-
gress to ask for the appointment of a committee to in-
vestigate its practices to the end that there be some
curb put to the indefensible methods it has pursued
in extracting money from the public.
"Congress never intended to put into anybody's
hands such extraordinary power as seems to be ex-
ercised by this society in the institution of a system
of spies, the imposition of fines and penalties and the
extraction of license fees. I understand that every
movie house, every broadcasting station, every hotel,
every place in the United States where music is
played or songs sung for the pleasure of the people
that can in any way be classed as for profit must pay
tribute to this society.
"It is unthinkable that any person or group can
be permitted to continue such a course. It is con-
trary to the American sense of fairness or decency."
EXPECT NOTHING NEW IN RADIO
Information to That Effect Given by Exhibitors at
National Radio Exposition in Chicago.
Styles in radio, fickle and changeable during the
last few years, are finally fixed and stable, a prelim-
inary study of exhibits to the National Radio Expo-
sition, which opened on Monday, September 28, in the
American Exposition Palace, Chicago, discloses. The
same finding was reported in a survey just com-
pleted for the Radio Dealers' Association of America.
The information in the survey should be a relief
to dealers and the radio buying public who have with-
held their purchases pending some definite assurance.
Exhibitors at the National Radio Exposition are pre-
pared to assure dealers and the public that the sets
and material purchased this fall will be standard for
some time to come.
"Propaganda is being spread to the effect that the
marvel of perfection, the super-supreme sets of sets,
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
is to be brought out this winter, but manufacturers
have given their assurance that their exhibits will be
the only new things seen here this year," Milo E.
Westbrooke, manager of the exposition, declared.
REDTOP TUBES DESCRIBED
Q R S Music Co. Tells About the Construction
Features Which Make the New Product Reliable.
The Q R S Music Co., Chicago, with branches in
New York, San Francisco and Toronto, has issued a
new folder devoted to the Q R S Redtop Radio Tube.
Why the Redtop excels is convincingly told in clear,
non-technical language, illustrated with line drawings.
This is said:
The design and placing of the three fundamental
elements in the Redtop tube are perfectly symmetri-
cal, thereby allowing no opportunity for escape of
the electrical energy.
The construction of the Redtop tube eliminates
vibration. Anchored supports at both the top and
the bottom are the reasons.
This construction makes reception clearer as it
does away with tube noises and brings in purer tone
quality.
All the interior elements are thoroughly anchored
and welded together which keeps the relative spacing
of the parts uniform under all ordinary conditions of
shipping and use, promoting reliability and uniform-
ity.
Inspections during construction and on completion
are thorough and rigid. This means every tube is
inspected four times before it receives our seal of
approval, which is the application of the Redtop col-
oring.
The name Redtop is registered in the U. S. Patent
Office as a trademark. The tube is manufactured
under license under patent application pending. It is
licensed for commercial, amateur and experimental
use without restriction after sale.
GERMAN SHEET MUSIC EXPORTS.
A statement of sheet music exports from Germany,
appearing in Musikalienhandel, shows that the prom-
ise of the first quarter of this year was not borne out
in the second quarter, and the total 5,840 doppelzeut-
ner for the six months is not a great deal more than
that (5,136 dr.) of the first half of 1924. The total in
the first half of 1914 was 9,911 dr. The correspond-
ing imports on the other hand amounted to 1,024 dr.,
against 1,392 dr. In money value the exports of
music in 1914 made 3,523,000 marks, and in 1925,
2,315,000 marks, and the imports made 557,000 marks
in 1914, but reached 627,000 marks in 1925. The
largest buyers this year were Holland, Austria,
Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and England, in the
order given. The order in 1914 was: Austria-Hun-
gary, England, France, Switzerland, and Belgium.
The imports originated mostly in Austria-Hungary,
France and England in 1914, but France and England
scarcely figured at all in 1924 in this list.
JUST GUESS WORK.
Although considerable guessing is continually being
indulged in on the subject, the department of com-
merce has never made a survey to ascertain the actual
number of radio sets in use in the United States. A
popular guess is that of the 20,000,000 homes about
5,000,000 have sets.
MUSIC RIGHTS TO "SAD."
The music rights to "Sad," which has been made
into a record by the Brunswick Co., have been ac-
quired by Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, and
this composition will shortly make its appearance in
sheet music form.
F. O. McWhorter, director of a band at Mallard,
la., is composer of "Memories of Iowa," which is
now being played by the Mallard band in a tour of
the state. It is already published in sheet music
form.
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NEW FREIGHT ON RADIO
Chamber to Petition Interstate Commerce
Commission to Suspend New Rates on
Phonographs with Radio Installation.
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce will
again petition the Interstate Commerce Commission
for a suspension of the new rates on phonographs
with radio installation, which the railroads have just
announced to go into effect on October 15 as a result
of the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion in the previous case, which was argued in April
and the decision handed down August 14.
In the opinion of the Chamber, the rates announced
for official territory, that is the eastern part of the
country, are double those which the Commission ap-
parently approved in its decision. The railroads orig-
inally endeavored to install a rate for carload ship-
ments of second class with 20,000 pounds minimum.
The Chamber and the phonograph companies which
it represented maintained that the 20,000 pound mini-
mum was too high, as not more than 16,000 pounds
can be loaded. The contest was over the minimum
weight, and the second class rating was apparently
satisfactory to both the railroads and the shippers.
The Commission upheld the contention of the
Chamber in the matter of the minimum weight. As
a result of this, the western and southern railroads
announced the rate which everybody expected, name-
ly, second class with 16,000 pounds minimum, but the
eastern railroads took advantage of the absence of
any comment of the Commission about the class and
announced first class w T ith 16,000 pounds minimum.
CONCERT MANAGERS FIGHT RADIO.
Concert agents in England are busy just now tying
up artists with contracts which will prevent them
from broadcasting. The agents are meeting with
difficulties in many cases. British concert managers
are still bitter against radio broadcasting and there
seems no hope of an agreement such as that reached
with the theater managers. Many artists are refusing
nonbroadcasting contracts because of the larger fees
in view during the coming season and the opportunity
to reach a large public through the microphone.
Frank Silver, who wrote "Yes, We Have No
Bananas," has written a new song called "Lazy-
bones," to be featured in exploiting a motion picture
play of that name.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
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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