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PRESTO-TIMES
T. L. LUTKINS, JR., 1 RETURNS
Much Good Business Results from Extensive Trip,
Covering Far Western Points.
T. L. Lutkins, Jr., son of President T. L. Lutkins
of T. L. Lutkins, Inc., 40 Spruce street, New York,
whose slogan is, "Lutkins Leathers Are the Best,"
returned this week from a very successful trip to
the Pacific Coast states, and all through the West, for
that matter. He was as far east as Cleveland on
the homeward journey on Tuesday night of this
week.
Mr. Lutkins, Sr., president of the company, when
seen on Tuesday at his New York office by a Presto-
Times correspondent, said that the West and South-
west was furnishing by far the bulk of the trade
this year. His firm is very busy filling Western
and Southwestern orders.
SUIT AGAINST ROLL MAKERS
Action Filed Against Staffnote Player Roll Co. Is
Considered a Test of Rights.
A test suit was filed this week in the Federal Dis-
trict Court of Milwaukee, W r is., by Attorney Robert
Hess, Wisconsin counsel for the American Society
of Composers and Publishers, which will affect every
music dealer and publisher in the country. Defend-
ants in the suit are the Stafifnote Player Roll Co. and
seventeen music dealers in Milwaukee and one in
Racine.
The complaint alleges that both words and music
of copyrighted songs are protected and that while the
manufacturer of rolls and the dealers pay the royalty
on the music, they must, if they desire to print the
words of the song on the rolls, make an additional
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contract with the publishers and pay an additional
royalty.
The defendants in the action besides the Staffnote
Co. the the Milwaukee Piano Co., Kreiter Piano Co.,
Thrift Piano Co., Luebtow Piano Co., Thiery Piano
Co., Huras Piano Manufacturing Co., Gawlick Music
Co., East Side Music Co., Flanner-Hafsoos Co., Es-
penhain Co., Coffey Music Co., Gether Piano Co.
Getzel Music Co., Kaun Music Co., Lincoln Music
Shop, Lyric Music Co., Wopsel Music Co., all of
Milwaukee, and the Matusek Music Co., Racine.
The music dealers named are distributors of rolls
and are made defendants largely as a matter of form,
as the custom of printing the words on the music
rolls has heretofore generally been followed through
out the country without paying additional royalty.
It is alleged that Walter Donaldson, song writer,
and Leo Feist, publisher, copyrighted both words
and music on certain songs that the Staffnote Player
Roll Co. made rolls using both music and words,
but have not paid royalty for printing the words on
the roll. Such printing on the rolls, it is said, enable
singers to learn the words more quickly and enable
them to avoid purchasing sheet music.
Six counts are alleged by the Feist Co. and a min-
imum of $250 damages and a full accounting of all
rolls sold is asked in each count. An additional com-
plaint is also filed by the Ager, Yellen & Bornstein
Co., New York, against the same defendants, alleging
that the words of two songs copyrighted by them
were used without payment.
ALBERT A. BARNES DIES.
Albert A. Barnes, aged eighty-eight, president of
the Udell Works, Indianapolis, for more than fifty
years, died at his home, 1740 North Meridian street,
in that city, anuary 25, following an illness of more
than two years. Funeral services were held on Sat-
urday, January 28. Mr. Barnes took an active part in
the public affairs, and held his office as president of
the company until his death. He was widely known
among music dealers all over the country, and his
company manufactured cabinets for radio's, music
rolls, and phonograph cabinets, and were pioneers in
the nidustry.
February 4, 1928
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
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FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
CHEERFUL ESTIMATE.
Robert Alessi, manager of the Weser Bros., Inc.,
store, 121 West 23rd street, having held that position
about sixteen years, says that their 1927 business at
the store was greater than that of 1926. But he added
as an aside that he and his men had to work hard to
bring about this result. "For," he said, "the day has
gone by when customers walk spontaneously into any-
body's store just to buy a piano."
ENLARGE COMMITTEE.
After hearing the report of Mark P. Campbell,
chairman of the advisory committee, to the National
Bureau for the Advancement of Music with regard
to the meeting of his committee held on January 25,
1928, the president was instructed by the directors
to enlarge the advisory committee by appointing non-
members whose advice would be valuable because of
their experience in the non-commercial field of music.
TO
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The Bolletino Bibliografico Musicale is the title
of an interesting little music journal printed in Milan,
Italy, a copy of which was received by Presto-Times
this week.
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