Presto

October 24, 1925.
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PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
COPYRIGHT OWNERS' RIGHT
Limitation of Broadcasters' Privileges for Use of
Music Defined in Supreme Court Decision.
A decision of the United States Supreme Court in
Washington, D. C, in the Remick-Crosley case, con-
firms the ownership of music copyrights for broad-
casting purposes in the firm of Jerome H. Remick &
Co., New York, and makes permanent the injunction
granted the music publishing house by the Circuit
Court in Cincinnati recently.
The Supreme Court has handed down a decision
denying the petition of the Crosley Radio Manufac-
turing Co., Cincinnati, for the remanding of the case,
decided in favor of the Remick Company in the lower
court, for retrial. The case was brought to the Su-
preme Court by the American Automobile Acces-
sories Co., a branch of the Crosley Manufacturing
Co., for a writ of certiorari sending the case back to
the United States Circuit Court in Cincinnati.
The action of the Supreme Court is considered a
final settlement of the limitations of broadcasting
rights relating to copyrighted music. It is held to
make clear the rights of copyright owners under the
law of 1909, to demand remuneration for the use
of their music from broadcasters.
THE RADIO MOTION PICTURE
Inventor of Television Considers Machine for Pur-
pose Not Visionary Nor Difficult to Effect.
C. Francis Jenkins, inventor of television, tells of
the assurances for the radio motion picture.
"When to this audible radio we add visible radio,
we may both hear and see great events; i. e., inaugu-
ral ceremonies, a football, polo, or baseball game; a
regatta, mardi gras, flower festival, or baby parade;
and an entire opera in both action and music," he
added:
"When radio vision is made generally available,
then pictures at the fireside sent from distant w r orld
points, will be the daily source of news; the daily
instructional class, and the evenings' entertainment,
for the picture is without language, literacy, or age
limitation; and as the flight of radio is not hindered
by rain, or distance, or snow blockades, then equally
the long day of the shut-ins will be more endurable,
and life in far places less lonely.
"It isn't a visionary or even a very difficult thing
to do; speech and music are carried by radio, and
sight can just as easily be so carried."
According to Mr. Jenkins the apparatus for radio
vision is very simple: i. e., a little box, plugged into
your radio set like a loud speaker, containing a small
motor and flickering light. This motion picture at-
tachment will probably cost from $65 to $85. They
will also make radio sets with the picture unit built
in like a loud speaker is often built into the set.
This radio-picture set will cost, say $150 to $200.
Where both the music and the action is desired on
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
the same radio set an additional hundred dollars will
probably be tacked onto the price."
Mr. Jenkins declares that radio vision is an accom-
plished fact, and obviously, therefore, refinement is
all that remains to be done before one will be able
to see reproduced on a small white screen in the
home what is then actually happening at a distance.
A RADIO BUYER'S QUESTION.
One of the most common questions asked by the
beginner in radio is "How far will this set receive?"
It can't be answered; at least not with any degree of
certainty. There are too many factors upon which
the receiving range of any set depends. For instance,
among the factors entering into the distance a set
will "step out" is location. A set may be shielded
from distant station by high buildings, or mountains
or high trees. There may be power lines or other
interference of a like nature. Then there is the
weather. And last, but not least, is the ability of the
operator to tune a set. In spite of the simplicity of
the present day sets, learning to tune properly re-
quires a little practice and patience.
SOUSA FEATURES REMICK SONG.
The Jerome H. Remick & Co., publication "Follow
the Swallow," which still continues to command sales
at sheet music counters is featured in John Philip
Sousa's programs in a fall tour. A novelty in Mr.
Sousa's programs for next Sunday in the Auditorium
in Chicago, is a humoresque built on the popular song
named. These annual stunts on a basis of a familiar
melody have been a feature of Mr. Sousa's visits in
recent seasons, and represent him in one of his most
ingratiating aspects as a composer and a musician
with a strong sense of genial fun.
FEATURES TEACHERS' MUSIC
The Wm. A. Kaun Music Co., Milwaukee, has set
aside a special counter for the stocking and showing
of teachers' material. The sheet music and books are
well classified and a big assortment of novelties and
standard sellers is carried. Paul E. Mueller, man-
ager of the Wm. A. Kaun Music Co., says the grow-
ing importance of the teachers' demands required the
special treatment of the music.
DEALERS AID MUSIC WEEK.
Music merchants in Philadelphia last week took
an active part in reminding the public of the musical
character of the period from Oct. 10 to 17, the time
fixed by Mayor Kendrick for "Music Week." An-
nouncements in the music dealers' newspaper adver-
tisements, posters in the windows and on the ware-
room walls kept the event clear in the minds of the
public.
CONTEST OVER RADIO.
A "musical contest" between the proponents of
jazz and classical music will be held November 6 by
the Rocky Mountain station of the General Electric
Co., Denver. Conflicting opinions on music are pour-
ing into Station KOA. Broadcast listeners of KOA
are to be given an opportunity to vote on the issue
on the date named.
PUBLISHERS IN STEINWAY HALL.
A large suite of offices on the fifth floor of the
new Steinway Hall on Fifty-seventh street, New
York, has been leased to C. C. Birchard & Co., music
publishers, of Boston. The lease is the fifth made
to music publishers in the Steinway building, which
is already a center of New York's music circles.
JAPAN BIG RADIO BUYER.
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
A report from Washington, D. C, says Japan again
leads the fiscal month's radio exports with purchases
amounting to $288,664. This is almost half of the en-
tire month's exports, which amounted to $643,463.
Canada, as usual, was the second best customer, with
Argentina third.
ARTHUR NEVIN JOINS COMMITTEE
Composer Aiding Music Week Has Had Variew Ex-
perience in Community Music.
The National Bureau for the Advancement of Music
has announced the appointment fo Arthur Nevin, the
well-known composer, as assistant secretary of the
National Music Week Committee. Mr. Nevin suc-
ceeds Kenneth S. Clark.
For five years Mr. Nevin was professor of music at
the University of Kansas, lecturing two days a week
at the University, the remainder of the week traveling
throughout the state organizing community choruses,
orchestras, etc During the war he was appointed as
song leader at Camp Grant, having under his leader-
ship 41,000 men. In 1920 Nevin was appointed direc-
tor of municipal music and dramatic art in Memphis,
Tennessee, this being jone of the first, if not the first,
city to place music as one of its municipal depart-
ments.
Mr. Nevin's experience in community work brings
him into the assistant secretaryship of the National
Music Week Committee with real enthusiasm and in-
terest for the duties that lie before him.
The officers of the National Music Week Commit-
tee are the same as the previous year: President
Coolidge, honorary chairman; Otto H. Kahn, execu-
tive chairman; James G. Blaine, Jr., treasurer; C. M.
Tremaine, director of the National Bureau for the Ad-
vancement of Music, secretary.
SONG IS INVITATION.
A song, written by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Austin,
of El Paso, Tex., named ''Where Sunshine Spends
the Winter," and called El Paso's municipal song,
was sung this week by ten veterans of the Spanish
War at the convention of Veterans of the Spanish
War at St. Petersburg, Fla. The singing of the song
was the official invitation of El Paso to the veterans
to hold their next convention in the Texas city.
RADIO DOCTOR ADVERTISES.
"Sick radios made well" is the announcement of
L. D. Biggs, proprietor of the New Music Shop,
Petersburg, Ind., who uses the newspapers to declare
he is competent to eliminate the noisy and other
troubles of any receiving set. Mr. Biggs is a piano
tuner and repairman who sees the opportunity to
apply his abilities to the newer things.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for Grand
Openings, Special Occasions, Holidays, Quanti-
ties (or Country Schools, Societies, etc., write
to the Illinois State Register, Dept. P, Spring-
field, Illinois.
REMICK SONG HITS
Sometime
By the Light of the Stars
Sweet Georgia Brown
If I Had a Girl Like You
Got No Time
You Told Me To Go
Mother Me Tennessee
Oh Lovey Be Mine
On the Bam Bam Bamy Shore
Good Mornin'
I'm Going to Charleston, Back to •
Charleston
Let's Wander Away
When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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