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Issue: 1927 2137

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July 16, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
SMALL GOODS, MUSIC ROLLS AND SHEET MUSIC
THE SCHUBERT CENTENARY
five numbers including an overture, and opening and
closing march and one or two short concert numbers,
which may include a solo part. Bands will be scored
on tone, tune and execution.
Two other events shall be given consideration in
the final markings, a serenading program and a band
parade. During the morning from 9:30 to noon the
serenading feature will be held in various parts of
the grounds, while the parade of all competing bands
will be held. The final event, climaxing the Chil-
dren's Day festivities, will be held at the opening of
the evening program with all of the bands massing
and playing, "The Star Spangled Banner" and "On
Wisconsin."
DE LUXE ROLLS FOR AUGUST
Splendid List of Standard and Popular Music Issued
by De Luxe Reproducing Roll Corporation.
The following are the Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
records for August. In these releases the names of
The Columbia Phonograph Company, sponsors of
the recording artists are printed in parentheses:
the recent Beethoven Week, has initiated an Inter-
X-7707, Charmaine (with words), Rapee (Erno
national Schubert Centenary Year to commemorate
Rapee); C-76 8, "Babes in Toyland" (selections),
the memory of Franz Schubert during 1928. Addi-
Herbert-Harris (Edward Harris); C-7689, Morning-
tional national committees will augment the advisory
Mood "Peer Gynt" Suite, Op. 46. No. 1, Grieg,
body of Beethoven Week, which will be retained. A
(Richard Singer); C-7690. Asc's Death, "Peer Gynt"
Vienna organization has already been formed.
Suite, Op. 36, No. 2, Grieg (Richard Singer); C-7691,
The world is divided into ten zones for a com-
Anitra's Dance; In the Hall of the Mountain King
petition aiming at the completion of the unfinished
"Peer Gynt" Suite, Op. 46, Nos. 3 and 4, Grieg
Symphony of Schubert. A total of $20,000 is offered
CHARGE RADIO MONOPOLY.
(Richard Singer).
in awards to composers whose work most nearly
H. C. Brice, connected with the International Labor
New records of popular music: Y-75258, At Sun-
approach the genius and style of Schubert. In every News Service, Washington, D. C , and now in Los
zone three awards will be made: A first prize of Angeles, charges that "a radio monopoly is trying down (fox trot), Donaldson, (Frank Banta): Y-75279.
$750, a second prize of $250, and a third of honorable to crush out overy broadcasting station that is not Magnolia (fox trot), DeSylva, Brown and Hender-
son (Julian Rodney); Y-75280, It's a Million to One
mention. To the composer among the thirty re- part of it.'' He specifically charges that the alleged
ceiving awards, whose composition is considered the monopoly has already attempted to strangle small You're in Love (fox trot), Davis and Akst (Jack
best $10,000 will be given. The contest opens Sep- stations, "particularly those which broadcast Ameri- Ward); Y-75281, Just Once Again (fox trot), Don-
aldson and Ash (Vee Lawnhurst); Y-75282, Some-
tember, 1927, and closes July, 1928.
can Federation of Labor announcements, which is body and Me (fox trot), Golden (Johnny Johnson).
accomplished by having their wave lengths so re-
duced that their service is of little value." Mr. Brice
GIFT TO MUSIC.
says the monopoly has attempted to crush station
To improve the quality of music and extend the
KFXB, Los Angeles. "This station," Mr. Brice says, range of its influence in settlements, is the chief
object of a gift of $10,000 by the Carnegie Founda-
Children's Day at Wisconsin State Fair in Milwau- "is friendlv to labor."
tion to the music division of the National Federa-
kee Will Have Band Contest.
tion of Settlements, recently announced. Detroit is
DISPLAY
AIDS
PORTABLES.
Juvenile bands from all parts of the state of Wis-
one of the cities to benefit by this gift, according to
Lyon
&
Healy,
Chicago,
in
arranging
a
special
consin will compete for $500 in prizes in a school
Miss Grace Barber, director of the music department
band contest to be held as an extra feature on window display this week for vacationists, showed
of the Detroit Community Union.
the
portable
phonograph
and
radio
to
good
advantage.
Children's day, August 29, at the Wisconsin State
The display appealed to those who enjoy the out-of-
Fair, Milwaukee.
According to Fred C. Borcherdt, Jr., business man- doors, and especially those who love music. The
picture is a scene of a mother and her daughter in
ager of the fair, the contest will constitute a part of
the
park. The child is at the top of a slide and the
the general plan to emphasize more than ever before
the musical phase of the fair. Bands will be divided mother is preparing to take her picture as she slides
into A and B classes, according to age or organiza- down. Both are life size models. A portable phono-
tion and in each of the separate contests, four prizes graph and radio are lying in the grass nearby.
Just Like a Butterfly.
$100, $75, $50 and $25 will be awarded. Bands over
BUYS MICHIGAN BUSINESS.
two years in organization will be classed in the A
The Whisper Song.
group and those under two years in the organization
Matthew Cunningham, 208 East C street, Iron
Four Leaf Clover.
will be placed in the B class.
Mountain, Mich., has purchased the interests of
Moonbeam, Kiss Her for Me.
Each band shall present a short concert of four or Arthur Chase in the music business formerly con-
ducted under the firm name of the Hademan-Chase
Hello, Cutie.
Music house. The new firm name has not yet been
I'll Take Care of Your Cares.
decided upon, although Mr. Cunningham will actively
All I Want Is You.
take charge of the business.
Columbia Phonograph Company Inaugurates Celebra-
tion of World-Wide Scope to Be Held in 1928.
MAKES MUSIC FEATURE AT FAIR
REMICK SONG HITS
Two Songs of Merit
Boston's Latest Song 'Hit'
"SPRING and MAY," in E flat
"MINE," in E flat
Both these songs are of medium range and
well suited to either soprano or tenor voices.
Dealers will find them good sellers.
Orders may be placed direct with the
publisher,
VIDA B. BAXTER
1Z4 North Collett Street
Lima, Ohio
"CAROLINA"
(I'm Coming Back ToYou)
Featured by Jack Smith, Victor Artist, Paul Specht,
and 100 other leading stars.
Dealers and sellers of music—are you getting your
share of the demand created 'right now' for this, the
biggest selling song published in years? It has the
'PEP.' The first 5 and 10 cent store sold 500 copies in
a week. You can do likewise. (Title page superb.)
Special term3 to dealers and stores who will make
Show Window and Counter Displays.
Sample Copy Free—Write Us a t ONCE.
I Need Lovin'.
Blame It on the Waltz.
Hello, Blue Bird.
I've Gotta Get Myself Somebody to Love.
I'm Back in Love Again.
The Night of Love.
Cabarabia.
When Will We Meet Again.
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
J. S. Unger Music House, Pub., Reading, Penn.
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16, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
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line as if he was half an hour late. You could hear
her thunder over culverts and bridges and getting
faster and faster, until the fellow rocked about on his
Fine Selection of Music for Automatic Pianos for seat like a cradle. The fellow worked the keys on
the middle division like lightning and then he flew
August Listed in August Bulletin.
along the northern end of the line until the drivers
The August Bulletin of the Automatic Music Roll went around like a buzz-saw, and I got excited.
Co., Chicago, has heen mailed to the trade. As
"About the time I was trying to tell him to cut
usual the list is a long one and the music is char- her off a little, he kicked the dampers under the ma-
acterized by timeliness and care in selection.
chine wide open, pulled the throttle valve 'way back
Fox trots predominate in the new August list, but into the tender and how he did run. I couldn't stand
the waltzes and blues are made strong features of
it any longer and yelled to him that he was pounding
the presentations. A roll of "Mexican Harmony on the left and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash
Hits" is composed of alluring tunes. Four organ pan. No one heard me. She went by the meeting
rolls, light comedy, scenic, plaintive and popular are point at a mile and a half a minute and calling for
included in the August bulletin.
more steam. I knew the game was up. Sure enough,
dead ahead of us was the tail light of a special.
"In a daze I heard a crash as the French pro-
fessor struck the deep keys 'way down on the lower
end of the southern division, and then I came to my
Customs Court Rules in Favor of Southern California senses. There he was at a dead standstill with the
door of the firebox wide open, wiping the perspira-
Music Co., Which Protested Toy Tax.
tion off his face and bowing to the people before
•
The Southern California Music Company of Los him."
Angeles has just won a decision from the United
States Customs Court on the classification of small
imported brass horns or bugles.
On entry, these articles were classified as toys and
duty exacted at the rate of 70 per cent ad valorem Movement for Forming New Organizations Gains in
Enthusiasm All Over the Country.
under paragraph 1414, act of 1922. Judge Sullivan
now finds that they should have been assessed as
One hundred dollars remains to be collected toward
musical instruments, at the rate of only 40 per cent the $800 quota in the Ann Arbor, Mich., Chamber of
ad valorem, under paragraph 1443.
Commerce campaign for organization of a municipal
The importers introduced considerable testimony band, H. G. Pulfrey, chairman of the committee, an-
at the trial of this case to show that these small horns nounced this week.
or bugles have a more practical use than merely as
The Chamber of Commerce of Ann Arbor, Mich.,
toys. This view is accepted by the court.
has organized a band of 22 pieces and the organiza-
tion will later give a series of public concerts.
A new orchestra has recently been organized at
Dyersburg, Tenn., called the Southern Entertainers,
with Edward King as manager and Lester Robinson,
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument director.
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
The Paoli Band is making satisfactory progress at
The Hunleth Music Co., St. Louis, has inaugurated the weekly rehearsals and arrangements are being
made to give a public exhibition next week.
a harmonica playing contest.
The H. C. Schultz Co., Inc., has opened branches
TO ADD SMALL GOODS.
in Detroit and Cleveland for giving a wholesale serv-
ice to dealers.
In the recent purchase of the Xordheimer Piano
The Gus Music Shop has opened for business at & Music Co., Toronto, Canada, by Heintzman & Co.,
1410 West Sixty-third Street, Chicago, carrying a of the same place, a new feature of the merged busi-
complete line of musical merchandise and sheet nesses was announced. Heintzman & Co., which
will be the name of the consolidation, will enter the
music.
The Wisconsin Radio Association will hold its smaller musical instrument field. At the present time
it handles only pianos, talking machines, radios and
fourth annual banquet September 21.
The annual outing of Talking Machine and Radio their accessories. Under the new policy, all forms
Men, Inc., took place on Thursday of this week at of musical instruments will be handled. In Toronto,
the sale of these will begin on January 1, but the
Briarcliff Lodge, N. Y.
The centenary of the invention of the accordion Windsor store will enter the field immediately. A
by Charles Buffon was celebrated recently in Brus- full stock of the smaller instruments will be installed
this week, C. C. Milligan, district manager, an-
sels, Belgium.
The Hohner cup for the best harmonica band was nounced.
awarded to the Hebrew Orphan Band of New York
in a recent contest in Central Park in that city.
MUSIC TEACHERS ELECT.
La Verne H. Brown, founder of the La Verne H.
Brown School of Music in Royal Oak, was elected
president of the Michigan Music Teachers' associa-
tion yesterday, the last day of the fortieth annual con-
Rides With French Pianist Over Thrilling Trip With vention in Detroit. Last week Mr. Brown com-
pleted his fifteenth year as teacher of piano and
Grand Pianote Throttle Wide Open.
theory in the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Early
The New Zealand Railways Magazine claims that
in the spring he was elected a member of the faculty
the following is a description "as told by Jem Nelson,
of the Detroit Institute of Musical Art where he now
one of America's oldest engine drivers," of his "ride
is established.
on a piano."
"I was loafing around town last night and as I had
"INTERFERENCE" HEARINGS.
nothing better to do I dropped into a concert and
Applications arc now being received at headquar-'
heard a slick looking Frenchman play a piano that
made me feel all over in spots. As soon as he sat ters of the Federal Radio Commission for hearings
down at the piano I knew by the way he handled his at which broadcasting stations will present claims of
work that he understood the machine he was running. interference with their programs by other stations.
He tapped the keys 'way down on one end, just as if The commission has announced that such hearings
they were gauges and he wanted to see if he had will be held after July 15 "for the purpose of pro-
viding an orderly method for the reduction and the
water enough.
"Then he looked up as if he wanted to know how eventual elimination of interference between radio
much steam he was carrying, and the next moment broadcasting stations operated on the same or on
he pulled open the throttle and sailed out on the main closely adjacent frequencies."
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JULY RELEASES.
I Wonder How I Look When I'm
Asleep—Fox Trot.
Rio Rita—Fox Trot.
I'm a Stern Old Bachelor—One
Step.
Dawn of Tomorrow—Waltz.
I Could Waltz on Forever (With
You Sweetheart)—Waltz.
I'll Take Care of Your C a r e s -
Waltz.
Falling in Love with You—Waltz.
Tenderly Think of Me—Fox Trot.
Red Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)
Fox Trot.
When You're in Love—Waltz.
May God Bless You, Mother—
Waltz.
Positively -Absolutely—Fox Trot.
South Wind—Fox Trot.
Oh, What a Pal Was "Whoozis"—
Fox Trot.
So Blue—Fox Trot.
Hello, Cutie—Fox Trot.
I Wonder Who's with You When
I'm Not There—Fox Trot.
(You Flew Over) Uncle Sam
Takes His Hat Off to You—Fox
Trot.
Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.
S. A.)—Fox Trot.
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