December 19, 1925.
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PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
RAYNER, DALHEIM & CO. BUSY
Shop of Progressive Music Printing House Presents
Best Evidences of Lively Sheet Music Trade.
The growth in interest in music in all forms which
is one of the most marked features of life in Amer-
ica, naturally results in sales of sheet music, which of
course reacts on the printers of music. When the
public is buying music in quantities greater than ever
before the composers and publishers are prompt to
respond to the opportunity. There's where the music
printer assumes greater importance and the condition
results in greater activity in the music printing shops.
At all times "active" is the word that describes
the condition in the music printing plant of Rayner,
Dalheim & Co., 2054-2060 West Lake street, Chicago.
Now, however, the word seems too weak to suggest
a true conception of the business of the company.
The number of orders show that the song buyers are
keener than ever for the new numbers, that the com-
posers are alert for opportunities and the publishers
still men of keen discernment
Rayner, Dalheim & Co. is a dependable music
printing house where every facility for quick and sat-
isfactory work has been provided by a progressive
company. The company is the largest music printing
concern west of New York and its familiar statement
in its printed matter, "Any publisher our reference,"
shows the character of its standing.
RADIO EXPORTS INCREASE
October Showed That the Shipments of Apparatus
Doubled As Compared with Year Ago.
World interest in radio is reflected by a one hun-
dred per cent increase in value of radio apparatus
exported from the United States in October, as com-
pared with the same month last year.
For October, 1925, commerce department figures
show the value of radio apparatus exported was
$1,317,846. In October a year ago the exports were
$760,249.
For the first ten months of 1925 radio exports were
valued at $7,659,000.
President Coolidge took under advisement an invi-
tation extended him by Senator McKinley of Illinois
to address the National Radio conference at Atlantic
City May 10.
TO REVISE COPYRIGHT LAW
Congressman Green Told Presto of Movement to
Alter Statutes to Relieve Hotelkeepers.
Thomas D. Green, president of the American Hotel
Association, who was a visitor in Spartanburg, S. C,
during the Southern Hotel Association convention,
told a Presto correspondent in that city that the na-
tional association will attempt to have Congress pass
a bill whereby copyright music laws will be so
amended that authors, composers and publishers can
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
no longer exact royalties from hotel proprietors when
music is played by their orchestras.
"The United States copyright law gives to the
owner of copyrighted musical compositions two sepa-
rate and distinctly exclusive rights, namely, to print,
publish and sell the composition, and to publicly per-
form the composition for profit," declared Mr. Green.
"This practice has proved such a nuisance that it
is practically impossible for many hotel proprietors
to pay the orchestra and the royalty also on con-
certs which they may wish to give their guests. We
shall exert our utmost power to have Congress
amend the law in such a manner as to make it less
obnoxious."
BOTTLING RADIO PROGRAMS.
A new invention called the "telegraphone," has re-
cently survived a number of tests in London and may
soon be offered to the public. The "telegraphone" is
an instrument to "bottle" or "can" radio programs,
store them away, and later reproduce them at a time
when the radio public can listen more conveniently.
The instrument is said to combine the principles of
the gramophone with those of radio. It has produced
particularly satisfactory results in reproducing
speeches. The machine is the result of years of ex-
periment, and is said to reproduce the human voice
with fidelity.
CROSLEY GETS "AMRAD."
Purchase of the assets of the American Radio and
Research Corporation at Medford, Mass., by Powel
Crosley, Jr., president of the Crosley Radio Corpora-
tion of Cincinnati, will result in the formation of a
new company, to be known as the Amrad Corpora-
tion. This concern will be controlled by Mr. Cros-
ley personally as chairman of the board. Harold J.
Power, former president of the American Radio and
Research Corporation, probably will be president of
the new company, which will be operated at its present
location. Mr. Crosley also controls the Canadian
De Forest Radio Corporation, Toronto, Canada.
N E W BOOK OF FOLK SONGS.
Alexander Zatayevitch has published in Russia an
interesting volume entitled "One Thousand Songs of
the Kirghiz People." This is said to be the first
time the songs of these 56,000,000 nomadic people
who roam over a great territory in Siberia, Mon-
golia, Turkestan and European Russia have been re-
corded for the use of modern musicians. The Kirghiz
are a folk of the Mongolo-Tartar family and are a
purely Asiatic race.
WORLD'S RADIO STATIONS.
The latest estimate—and it is an official estimate—
of the number of broadcasting stations in the world
places the figure at no fewer than nine hundred
and twenty-two, and all in rather less than four
years. Of this number more than half are in the
United States of America, where there are actually
five hundred and sixty-six, leaving three hundred
and fifty-six distributed over the rest of the world.
ENLARGES S H E E T MUSIC SPACE?
The size and arrangement of the sheet music de-
partment in the new store of the Denver Music Co.,
Denver, Colo., are evidences of the progressiveness
of the company. The additional store building re-
cently made part of the active music house, gave an
opportunity to the management to provide the sheet
music department with more floor space.
P U B L I S H I N G H O U S E BANKRUPT.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed last
week in the U. S. District Court of Chicago by
Thomas J. Quigley, who with E. A. Benson has been
doing a music publishing business under the name
of Quigley & Benson, Inc., at 64 West Randolph
street. The liabilities were given at $13,173 and the
assets at $9,401.
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SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
Sixty-eight manuscripts were submitted in the
vocal, piano and instrumental composition at the re-
cent Texas State Fair. Competition was limited to
original work of Texas composers.
The practical value of music to the business man
was the subject of an address of Eugene Goosens,
conductor of the Rochester, N. Y., Philharmonic
Orchestra at the Shrine Club recently.
Grantland Rice, a nationally known writer on sport-
ing topics, is the composer of several songs to be
produced in a musical show.
"The Camel Walk" is a new song-dance which
may supersede the "Charleston" in the opinion of
Broadway experts.
May Breen, the composer, is now conducting a
ukulele course of instruction over the radio.
The Italian government announces the introduc-
tion of a measure providing for a national radio in-
stitute which will control the broadcasting of songs
and other forms of music.
The spread of the school band spirit has given
impetus to the sale of books of instruction in various
instruments.
"By the Light of the Stars," a Remick hit, is one
of the best sellers in the Gulbransen-Brunswick Music
Store, Rockford, 111., according to Miss Lillian Lar-
sen, manager.
T H E F O L K SONG'S ORIGIN.
A common notion is that folk songs sprang full
blown out of the folk—that they were written, not by
individuals, but by whole groups. This is nonsense,
says the Chicago Tribune. In that sense, indeed,
there is no such thing as a folk song. Folk songs
are written, like all other songs, by individuals. All
the folk have to do with them is to choose the ones
that are to survive. Sometimes, true enough, repeti-
tion introduces changes into them, but those changes
are not important. The basic song belongs to one
bard, and to him alone.
RADIO CONTROL BILL.
A bill widening the powers of the commerce de-
partment in dealing with radio broadcasting was in-
troduced in the U. S. Senate on Wednesday by Sen-
ator Dill, Democrat, Washington. It would strike
at eliminating interference between stations, and is
similar in many respects to a measure already intro-
duced in the house by Representative White, Repub-
lican, Maine.
The Seale Music Shop, Ouachita avenue, Hot
Springs, Ark., which recently moved into a newly re-
modeled and larger building, several doors from the
former place of business, reports a vastly increased
business in the new quarters. Fine display in the
show windows.
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.
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Chicago
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