The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
75c—FEBRUARY RELEASES—75c
1694 A Little Music in the Moonlight
—Fox Trot
1673 Candy Lips—Fox Trot
1686 Don't Forget the Pal You Left at
Home—rMarimba Waltz
1683 Elsie Schultz-En-Heim—Fox Trot
1682 Give Me a Ukulele—Fox Trot
1661 Gone Again Gal—Fox Trot
1685 Knows His Groceries—Fox Trot
1690 Hello, Swanee! Hello!—Fox Trot
1696 How Could Red Riding Hood?—
Fox Trot
1695 I Don't Mind Being Alone—Fox
Trot
1691 If Tears Could Bring You Back to
Me—Fox Trot
1684 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the
Bees—Fox Trot
1687 I t Made You Happy When You
Made Me Cry—Fox Trot
1674 I've Got the Girl—Fox Trot
1689 My Baby Knows How—Fox Trot
1693 My Girl H a s Eye Trouble—Fox
Trot
1688 Oh, How She Could Play a Uku-
lele—Fox Trot
1675 Original Black Bottom D a n c e
1679 She's Still My Baby—Fox Trot
1672 Sidewalk Blues
1678 Susie's Feller—Fox Trot
1680 Tonight You Belong to Me—Waltz
1676 Trail of Dreams—Waltz
1697 When I First Met Mary—Fox Trot
1681 When I'm in Your Arms—Fox
Trot
1682 Within the Prison of My Dreams
—Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
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PRESTO-TIMES
February 12, 1927.
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 ft Kedzie Are., CHICAGO, DLL.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
for the publication. The displays made under her
direction are very effective.
Fred K. Steele, Inc., music publisher, New York,
has moved to new studios at 745 Seventh avenue.
Very Interesting and Encouraging Facts Dis-
Irving Berlin, Inc., music publisher, has leased
office space at 177 Tremont street, Boston.
closed by Survey Recently Made by the
Mrs. M. R. Salt has succeeded Mrs. Suzanne Chris-
Conn Music Center, Elkhart, Ind.
tensen as manager of the sheet music department of
the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Music in high schools is the theme of a special
Carl Fischer, Inc., New York, has added a loose-
bulletin for February issued by the Conn Music
leaf collection of music for photoplay orchestras, both
Center, Elkhart, Ind., which made a survey to obtain
the facts. A very interesting condition was dis- for full orchestras and small orchestras, including
pianos.
closed by the questionnaire mailed to high schools.
The original sketches and full score of Schumann's
Altogether 782 replies were received, making a
first symphony in B flat (Opus. 38), in the com-
33.5% return. Of these, 772 were properly filled out
and usable. Every state in the Union was repre- poser's handwriting, has been bought by the Library
sented. The enrollment as given by the 602 schools of Congress.
"Ten Little Pieces for the Pianoforte," by Nicolas
answering this part of questionnaire was 331,940.
D'Averil, has been added to the catalog of the
This averages 551 pupils to a school.
Compared with the number of schools with cho- Oliver Ditson Co.
Mayor James Walker, of New York, attended the
ruses it is surprising to .note that no fewer than 694
formal opening of the new publishing firm of De
schools, or 89.2% have either bands or orchestras
Sylvia, Brown, Henderson, Inc., February 7.
or both.
The name of Finder & Urbanek, Chicago, pub-
The oldest orchestra mentioned was founded in
1886 at the Lancaster, Pa., high school by the prin- lishers, has been changed to Rubank, Inc., for rea-
cipal at the time. This orchestra now has 42 mem- sons of brevity.
bers. Three years ago a band was started which
now numbers 65 pieces.
The oldest band, on the other hand, out of these
374 schools reporting bands is found in Red Bluff,
Cal., at 'the Union High School, where the band has Roll Companies and Radio Help Featuring of Latest
Successful Numbers from Publishing House.
been organized for twenty years. The orchestra
there followed five years later.
'"Silver Song Bird," feature song of the Edward
How the band or orchestra is supported was an-
B. Marks Music Co., New York, is one of the fre-
swered by 604 principals. Two hundred and eighteen
quently played radio tunes and has attracted more
stated that support came out of school funds; 109 than the usual attention, because it permits the nov-
said that the Board of Education furnished part of
elty effects so essential in a song success today. It
the necessary money and the rest was raised by bene- has been recorded for the Victor by Joseph Knecht's
fits. In 121 cases, the school provides a leader,
Silvertown Cord Orchestra, for Columbia by the
general supplies and occasionally individual tuition, crack Boston orchestra of Leo Reisman, and for the
the student furnishing his own instrument. In only other mechanical concerns by artists of similar repu-
two instances were all the instruments the property
tation.
of the school.
E. B. Marks returned to his desk late in January
An encouragingly large number—79—are entirely from his first winter vacation in years, spent on a
self-supporting, while thirteen are kept going by pub-
cruise of the West Indies.
lic subscription and 25 out of private funds. In 35
"With Flags Aloft," the new Edward B. Marks
of these groups, the members themselves pay all the march, which has been officially adopted by the
expenses.
West Point authorities, is proving successful on
The negligible number of schools supplying instru-
music rolls and is reported to be selling splendidly
ments bears out the theory that for the school to on the QRS, Duo-Art, and the Clark rolls. It is to
do so, tends to decrease rather than increase the be listed shortly on other music rolls. "With Flags
pupil's interest and also it leaves the pupil on gradu- Aloft" is written by Joseph S. Strauss, a West Point
ation without any instrument. The chances then alumnus, and Herman Heller, musical director of the
are that he fails to keep up his music and join Yitaphone Corporation.
community industrial and fraternal music organiza-
tions later on. For the school to rent the instrument
ROES PLAYS OWN COMPOSITIONS.
to the pupil has been found satisfactory in many
Paul
Roes, the eminent Dutch pianist, who is in
cases, the rent being applicable on the purchase
America only until April, when he leaves for an
price.
extended tour of the East Indies, returning to this
country in January, 1928, has placed upon his pro-
gram for recitals in Chicago February 20, Philadel-
phia February 24, New York March 1, Boston
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music March 9, two of his own works for piano "II Giorno"
and "La Vita Eterna." Roes has an interesting his-
Department Are Printed.
tory and his playing is characterized by ripe musician-
Maude Nugent, who wrote "Sweet Rosie O'Grady," ship and fine technical equipment. He is under the
a popular song about twenty-five years ago, was in- management of C. E. Le Massena, Aeolian Building,
vited by the manager of the New York Hippodrome New York.
last week when the motion picture play with the
name of the old song was shown for the first time
FIRM NAME CHANGED.
recently. In private life Maude Nugent is Mrs. Wil-
The name of the Pryor & Cline Music Co., Dallas,
liam Jerome, wife of a song writer.
Tex., band instrument and musical merchandise
Elmer McDonald is an active traveling representa- dealers, has been changed to the Cline Music Co.,
tive and song promoter for the sheet music pub- following the purchase of the interests of R. A.
lishing department of the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Pryor by his partner, Durward J. Cline. The fine
Co., Kansas City, Mo.
store at 1905 Elm street carries a large line of
The copyrights to a number of old song hits will stringed instruments and band goods as well as pho-
expire this year when the authors will have the privi- nographs and records.
lege of regaining possession of them by copyrighting
them.
JOHN M. KIBBLER, PRESIDENT.
The current issue of "Selling Points for Dealers"
At the annual meeting recently of the Buffalo Radio
and the latest list of novelties in sheet music have
Trades Association John M. Kibbler, a music dealer,
been mailed to dealers by the Oliver Ditson Co., Bos-
was elected president. He was at one time president
ton and New York.
of the Victrola Dealers' Association of Western New
York. The election of a dealer for the office was
Mrs. Irene Setzler, manager of the sheet music
a precedent. Heretofore the position has been held
department of the J. C. McCrory Store, Philadelphia,
believes in the efficiency of show window featuring by a radio jobber.
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