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the problems which beset the publishing trade.
Unquestionably the retail dealer holds the key
to the situation in his hands, and an organiza-
tion such as Mr. Kremer suggests would go far
to prove to the publishing retailer that his only
salvation is to keep up rates and not slash them
to ridiculous figures. If Mr. Kremer can gather
around him some organization such as he sug-
gests, then, verily, "the big stick" would be
wielded from the retail end of the trade.
The Song Slide Question.
Says our entertaining little contemporary,
"Views and Films Index" in its issue of May 16:
"Music publishers of New York have banded
themselves together to stamp out the pernicious
abuse of the song slide courtesy and have deter-
mined to discontinue the practice of issuing song
slides free to singing artists. The loss of the
music publishers through the failure on the part
of unscrupulous artists to return their song
slide property has figured up into the thousands
and an expense item that they have determined
to do away with altogether. Fred Haviland is a
prime mover in this laudable undertaking and
has been assured of warm co-operation by the
other publishers."
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followers of art in other countries. For instance,
M. Marcel PrOvost, who denounces the present
system as "mere spoliation," calls the Minister's
attention to the case of a writer of fifty who
marries a girl of eighteen and dies next year.
THAT the first of the "Most Famous" Publish- "His widow runs a risk of being robbed of her
ing Co.'s albums will be ready this forthcoming inheritance just when old age (sixty-eight) in-
week.
capacitates her from earning a livelihood." If
THAT E. T. Pauill's offer of a $10 prize for the that remote risk is unjust, what must be said
most original title for his new march is bringing about the certain dangers overhanging the fami-
in a number of mott original suggestions.
lies of American men of letters? Indeed, com-
THAT Jerome H. Remick has opened a Chicago pared with the grounds of complaint existing
elsewhere, some of the French grievances ap-
office in the Masonic Temple in that city.
THAT in "The Teddy Bear's Picnic," by John pear a trifle fantastic. To illustrate the "flag-
W. Bratton, the Witmarks have another "Mos- rant unfairness" of their system the copyright
of Victor Hugo is contrasted with that of Guy
quitoes Parade."
de Maupassant. Dying at eighty-three Hugo en-
THAT Charles K. Harris is spending this week joyed sixty-five years of property in his lifetime,
in Milwaukee, "where the beer comes from."
or with the fifty years after death, one hundred
THAT W. T. Stewart, more familiarly known and fifteen years altogether. De Maupassant
as "Billy," is shortly to produce a new comic dying at forty, had only fifteen years of living
opera, entitled "The Golden Flute," by P. F. proprietorship and a total of sixty-five. "More-
Kobbc.
over, De Maupassant had already been cheated by
THAT Victor Kremer has just published his Providence in having a much shorter period of
first mandolin folio containing a number of his production." These spoiled children apparently
do not confine their grumbling to the law of
latest successes.
man.
THAT a phonograph record of a number of
M. Victor Margueritte, whose ideas it seems
howling wolves was lately played for a some-
what deaf old lady, who piously exclaimed: the Minister is likely to embody in his bill,
"That's the first time that I ever heard grand starts from the principle that literary property
should be permanent—as permanent at least as
opera on a phonograph."
THAT Guilio Gatti-Casazza, the new general any other form of property. But here the
manager of the Metropolitan Opera House, is ex- Socialist tendencies now prevailing in France
periencing some trouble in getting the public to intervene rather oddly. M. Margueritte recog-
nizes that the present Parliament is hostile to
pronounce his name.
rights of inheritance altogether. Indeed, a dep-
THAT Leo Feist's typewritten "ad." of thanks uty has already come forward with a Socialist
to the trade for receiving Abe Holzmann so roy- scheme by which the individual's copyright
ally is but another evidence of his advertising would run out as at present, but the State would
genius.
receive 10 per cent, on all subsequent sales. In-
THAT Julius Witmark was in Boston this week fluenced by these Socialistic demands, M. Mar-
looking over the local situation.
gueritte now abates his claims and is con-
THAT a well-known jrong writer who was re- tent to propose that the heirs, after the fifty
cently arrested for being connected in a bogus years from death have expired, should share the
music publishing house was heard to exclaim: profits of the copyright with the SociC'te des
"Honesty is the best policy. I have tried both Gens de Lettres, or with any other such body
to which the author has belonged, the society's
ways, so I ought to know."
THAT GUS Edwards has opened a music coun- share to be devoted to its pension fund. "At all
ter in Young & Graham's book store, 141 Fulton events the publishers would not then receive the
street, where he himself can be occasionally seen entire profits on works which they reprint to
the prejudice of living authors."
as an "added attraction."
Even in this respect—the competition of re-
THAT "Havana" Leslie Stuart's new comic
opera (Chappell & Co.) is an enormous success prints—it is doubtful if the French suffer as
much as American or English writers do. In
at the London Gaiety.
fact, their agitation might well be used to sup-
THAT Jerome H. Remick promises to make ply an argument a fortiori for the better pro-
Williams & Van Alstyne's hew song, "There tection of literary property in this country.
Never Was a Girl Like You," the next "hit."
THAT if Jerome says it is to be, it is to be, and
that ends the matter.
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Our "Man on the Street" Dissects Latest French
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France is a fond, doting mother to her artis-
tic children. Besides giving them a measure of
intelligent appreciation and of social esteem
which is carried the world over, she is generous
in protecting their property. With perhaps the
one exception of Japan, no country is more so.
In the United States copyright, both on musical
and literary composition, now runs for twenty-
eight years, with an extension of fourteen more
under certain conditions. In France it runs un-
conditionally throughout the author's life and
for fifty years after his death.
But French authors are idealists. They have
long been demanding copyright for a hundred
years after death, or even in perpetuity. Now It
seems that something of their demand may soon
be granted. M. Victor Margueritte, the president
of the SociC'te des Gens de Lettres, has been
conferring with M. Briand, the Minister of Pub-
lic Instruction, and he reports that the Minister
intends to lay a sympathetic bill before the
Chamber of Deputies.
To encourage M. Briand in this intention he
is being plied with arguments which may not
seem particularly impressive to the less favored
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