Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 51 N. 8 - Page 43
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THE MUSIC TRADE
his neighbor, let him consult with the publishers as
to getting prices which will enable hirr to meet
the competition. If he cannot get favorable rates,
he would better drop the prints of that publisher if
the latter is supplying the dime emporium with
music and stick to those who will give him a
chance to live.
The whole question reverts to the days when
the price of sheet music at wholesale was broken.
The fat was in the lire then, and has been smok-
ing and sizzling ever since. It is a pity that
dealers should be forced to take retaliatory meas-
ures and to "fake purchases." The regular deal-
ers, however, getting a fair price for prints at re-
tail, need not resort to such tactics. A man will
fight before he loses his business, naturally, and
selling to ten-cent stores by publishers has cer-
tainly been the climax of exasperation to the regu-
lar dealers. Thank goodness all music publishers
will not sell music under .10 cents per copy; not
even all the popular publishers will do that. Thank
goodness that all stores will not sell at retail for
10 cents. Especially let us be thankful for produc-
tion music. Let us escape the last back-breaking
straw of having such publications lowered in price.
They are even now dangerously low.
REVIEW
string of achievements and finally settled down as
a publisher of more or less popular songs. During
these developments Will's brother, Harold, accepted
a position in his employ—"accepting a position"
being the music publisher's way of going to work.
Harold helped all he could, and when the music
store thing came into vogue took a half interest
with Will in that branch of the business.
There came a parting of the brotherly ways,
eventually, and paying Will his price, Harold
started out for himself, taking the music store
with him under a bill of sale duly executed and
now on display at the office of the Harold Rossiter
Music Co. Having had nine years' experience with
Will, the thought lately struck Harold that he
would go into popular music himself. So saying
he took James S. Sumner into partnership. Now
there is a deadly f«ud between the Brothers Rossi-
ter. Will vows he* will "put Harold out of busi-
ness" and Harold vows right back at him that he
won't.
.10 to Frederick Olson, manager of the mechanical
department of the American Appraisal Co., and a
well-known club and lodge man of Milwaukee.
The ceremony was performed at the St. James
Episcopal Church. After a trip on the Great Lakes
and through the East, Mr. and Mrs. Olson will be
at home on 17th street.
Besides "Pickles and Peppers," her first effort in
the composing field, Miss Shepherd wrote several
other hits, including "Live Wires" and "Wireless
Rag." The sale of "Pickles and Peppers," which
is now being played by bands and orchestras all
over the country, has reached the 300,000 mark.
BAND KNOWS THIS SONG BY HEART.
Can Play Head Co.'s Successful Ballad in Any
Key Without the Music—Jungle Song
Placed in Five Productions.
Bandmaster Slafer, of Brighton Beach, writes to
the Head Music Publishing Co. that he has had
so many requests to play "Without You the World
DROWNS TRYING TO SAVE LIFE.
Don't Seem the Same" this summer that his band
Bob Roberts, a Demonstrator for Music Pub- can now play it in any key without the music. This
incident, added to many similar ones, not to men-
lishers, Dies in Attempt at Rescue.
tion the fact that the song is being sung by promi-
nent singers in all parts of the country, has brought
(Special to The Review.)
RIVALRY BETWEEN THE ROSSITERS.
assurance as well as optimism to the offices of the
Chicago, August 13, 1910.
Organization of New Music Company by Harold
At Wilson Beach, a bathing resort on the North Head company. George W. Head, Jr., president of
Rossiter Treated by "Variety" in Its Peculiar Side last Thursday, Bob Roberts, a demonstrator the company, ventured the remark the other day,
concerning one of his songs, that he "does not have
Way—Brothers in Competition.
for music publishers, was drowned as a result of
an attempt on his part to save a young woman to go after productions" on his ragtime jungle
The recent arrangement whereby Harold Rossi- from death. Although he was instrumental in song, "While Under the Jungle Moon," as it has
ter, of Chicago, has formed a music company rescuing the girl he lost his own life under par- already been placed \i\ five big productions for the
bearing his name, as told in The Review last week, ticularly unfortunate circumstances. Known as an coming season.
Howard and Howard have written the Head
is thus treated by Variety, a weekly paper devoted expert swimmer, when his companion reached
primarily to the doings of vaudeville workers and deep water he attempted to rescue her. The girl company from Buffalo that although they had not
caught him around the neck with her arms and thought it possible to strengthen their act further,
other members of the "profession":
Some years after the Chicago fire Will Rossiter both sank below the surface of the lake. Byron they have found that the act has been lengthened
established himself as a song book, joke book and James, a member of a vaudeville quartette, was by the repeated encores received on the feature
in the water near them, and going to their aid song of this company, "Without You the World
music publisher; later he became a producer of
vaudeville acts, added a few music stores to his succeeded in releasing the girl's hold, starting Don't Seem the Same."
with her to a place of safety, naturally believing
that Roberts could care for himself.
When it was noticed by Billy Mann, another
vaudeville artist, swimming near the scene, that
Roberts did not come to the surface, Mann swam
The following epigrammatic edi-
to the spot and by diving at last secured Roberts'
body. It is believed that the drowned man was
torial appeared in one of our
suddenly attacked by heart weakness, for he was
great weeklies:
among the best swimmers frequenting the bathing
beach.
EDITORIAL
"The high cost of living is
coining down. Beethoven's
Sonatas, in excellent edition,
now can be bought for ten
cents a copy."
WOMAN COMPOSER IS MARRIED.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., August 13, 1910.
Miss Adeline Shepherd, the composer of "Pickles
and Peppers," the "rag" march and two-step pub-
lished by Joseph Planner, was married on August
It referred of course to
CENTURY
EDITION
A DREAM OF SUCCESS
COME TRUE!
CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
"THE GIRL OF MY
DREAMS "
1178 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
H E A D HAS HITS
(George W. Head, Jr.)
WORLD'S GREATEST BALLAD
"Without You The World
Don't Seem The Same"
An Endless Chain of Sales of This Song Will Start
From First Purchase.
Best Ballad Since the Time of Jenny Lind
THE HEAD MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
1416 Broadway, Cor. 39th Street,
New York
CHICAGO DELIGHTED
with
THAT
ITALIAN
RAG
By AL PIANTADOSI,
Creator of Italian Character Songs.
A POSITIVE HIT!
A PROVED SELLER!
Orders poured in the very day after this
song was first sung at Hammerstein's
Victoria Theater.
GOING STRONGER EVERY D A Y !
PUBLISHED BY
LEO. FEIST, NEW YORK
The delightful new musical production now at the
Illinois Theatre with JOHN HYAMS and LEILA
McINTYRE.
The book and lyrics are by Wilbur D. Nesbit and
Otto A. Hauerbach, and the music by Karl L.
Hoschna, composer of those unqualified successes,
"Three Twins," "Bright Eyes," and "Madame
Sherry."
THE MARCH SONG HIT OF TIIK YEAR
ALL THE MUSICAL NUMBERS NOW READY.
ANTICIPATE THE D E M A N D -
ORDER RIGHT AWAY!
(A MOHAMMEDAN SERENADE)
M. WITMARK & SONS
CHICAGO — NEW YORK - SAN FRANCISCO —
LONDON - PARIS
"Why Don't the Band Play Dixie?"
liy S. J. Raber,
And Best Seller on the Market.
IMAM 99
I5y Nathaniel D. Mann.
This is the name of that weird and captivating
melody that you hear being played by all bands and
orchestras, unquestionably the biggest instrumental hit
of the year.
VICTOR KREMER CO.
10 8-1 10 Randolph St., Chicago (Opp. Garrick Theatre)
THE MUSIC TRADE
his neighbor, let him consult with the publishers as
to getting prices which will enable hirr to meet
the competition. If he cannot get favorable rates,
he would better drop the prints of that publisher if
the latter is supplying the dime emporium with
music and stick to those who will give him a
chance to live.
The whole question reverts to the days when
the price of sheet music at wholesale was broken.
The fat was in the lire then, and has been smok-
ing and sizzling ever since. It is a pity that
dealers should be forced to take retaliatory meas-
ures and to "fake purchases." The regular deal-
ers, however, getting a fair price for prints at re-
tail, need not resort to such tactics. A man will
fight before he loses his business, naturally, and
selling to ten-cent stores by publishers has cer-
tainly been the climax of exasperation to the regu-
lar dealers. Thank goodness all music publishers
will not sell music under .10 cents per copy; not
even all the popular publishers will do that. Thank
goodness that all stores will not sell at retail for
10 cents. Especially let us be thankful for produc-
tion music. Let us escape the last back-breaking
straw of having such publications lowered in price.
They are even now dangerously low.
REVIEW
string of achievements and finally settled down as
a publisher of more or less popular songs. During
these developments Will's brother, Harold, accepted
a position in his employ—"accepting a position"
being the music publisher's way of going to work.
Harold helped all he could, and when the music
store thing came into vogue took a half interest
with Will in that branch of the business.
There came a parting of the brotherly ways,
eventually, and paying Will his price, Harold
started out for himself, taking the music store
with him under a bill of sale duly executed and
now on display at the office of the Harold Rossiter
Music Co. Having had nine years' experience with
Will, the thought lately struck Harold that he
would go into popular music himself. So saying
he took James S. Sumner into partnership. Now
there is a deadly f«ud between the Brothers Rossi-
ter. Will vows he* will "put Harold out of busi-
ness" and Harold vows right back at him that he
won't.
.10 to Frederick Olson, manager of the mechanical
department of the American Appraisal Co., and a
well-known club and lodge man of Milwaukee.
The ceremony was performed at the St. James
Episcopal Church. After a trip on the Great Lakes
and through the East, Mr. and Mrs. Olson will be
at home on 17th street.
Besides "Pickles and Peppers," her first effort in
the composing field, Miss Shepherd wrote several
other hits, including "Live Wires" and "Wireless
Rag." The sale of "Pickles and Peppers," which
is now being played by bands and orchestras all
over the country, has reached the 300,000 mark.
BAND KNOWS THIS SONG BY HEART.
Can Play Head Co.'s Successful Ballad in Any
Key Without the Music—Jungle Song
Placed in Five Productions.
Bandmaster Slafer, of Brighton Beach, writes to
the Head Music Publishing Co. that he has had
so many requests to play "Without You the World
DROWNS TRYING TO SAVE LIFE.
Don't Seem the Same" this summer that his band
Bob Roberts, a Demonstrator for Music Pub- can now play it in any key without the music. This
incident, added to many similar ones, not to men-
lishers, Dies in Attempt at Rescue.
tion the fact that the song is being sung by promi-
nent singers in all parts of the country, has brought
(Special to The Review.)
RIVALRY BETWEEN THE ROSSITERS.
assurance as well as optimism to the offices of the
Chicago, August 13, 1910.
Organization of New Music Company by Harold
At Wilson Beach, a bathing resort on the North Head company. George W. Head, Jr., president of
Rossiter Treated by "Variety" in Its Peculiar Side last Thursday, Bob Roberts, a demonstrator the company, ventured the remark the other day,
concerning one of his songs, that he "does not have
Way—Brothers in Competition.
for music publishers, was drowned as a result of
an attempt on his part to save a young woman to go after productions" on his ragtime jungle
The recent arrangement whereby Harold Rossi- from death. Although he was instrumental in song, "While Under the Jungle Moon," as it has
ter, of Chicago, has formed a music company rescuing the girl he lost his own life under par- already been placed \i\ five big productions for the
bearing his name, as told in The Review last week, ticularly unfortunate circumstances. Known as an coming season.
Howard and Howard have written the Head
is thus treated by Variety, a weekly paper devoted expert swimmer, when his companion reached
primarily to the doings of vaudeville workers and deep water he attempted to rescue her. The girl company from Buffalo that although they had not
caught him around the neck with her arms and thought it possible to strengthen their act further,
other members of the "profession":
Some years after the Chicago fire Will Rossiter both sank below the surface of the lake. Byron they have found that the act has been lengthened
established himself as a song book, joke book and James, a member of a vaudeville quartette, was by the repeated encores received on the feature
in the water near them, and going to their aid song of this company, "Without You the World
music publisher; later he became a producer of
vaudeville acts, added a few music stores to his succeeded in releasing the girl's hold, starting Don't Seem the Same."
with her to a place of safety, naturally believing
that Roberts could care for himself.
When it was noticed by Billy Mann, another
vaudeville artist, swimming near the scene, that
Roberts did not come to the surface, Mann swam
The following epigrammatic edi-
to the spot and by diving at last secured Roberts'
body. It is believed that the drowned man was
torial appeared in one of our
suddenly attacked by heart weakness, for he was
great weeklies:
among the best swimmers frequenting the bathing
beach.
EDITORIAL
"The high cost of living is
coining down. Beethoven's
Sonatas, in excellent edition,
now can be bought for ten
cents a copy."
WOMAN COMPOSER IS MARRIED.
(Special to The Review.)
Milwaukee, Wis., August 13, 1910.
Miss Adeline Shepherd, the composer of "Pickles
and Peppers," the "rag" march and two-step pub-
lished by Joseph Planner, was married on August
It referred of course to
CENTURY
EDITION
A DREAM OF SUCCESS
COME TRUE!
CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
"THE GIRL OF MY
DREAMS "
1178 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
H E A D HAS HITS
(George W. Head, Jr.)
WORLD'S GREATEST BALLAD
"Without You The World
Don't Seem The Same"
An Endless Chain of Sales of This Song Will Start
From First Purchase.
Best Ballad Since the Time of Jenny Lind
THE HEAD MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
1416 Broadway, Cor. 39th Street,
New York
CHICAGO DELIGHTED
with
THAT
ITALIAN
RAG
By AL PIANTADOSI,
Creator of Italian Character Songs.
A POSITIVE HIT!
A PROVED SELLER!
Orders poured in the very day after this
song was first sung at Hammerstein's
Victoria Theater.
GOING STRONGER EVERY D A Y !
PUBLISHED BY
LEO. FEIST, NEW YORK
The delightful new musical production now at the
Illinois Theatre with JOHN HYAMS and LEILA
McINTYRE.
The book and lyrics are by Wilbur D. Nesbit and
Otto A. Hauerbach, and the music by Karl L.
Hoschna, composer of those unqualified successes,
"Three Twins," "Bright Eyes," and "Madame
Sherry."
THE MARCH SONG HIT OF TIIK YEAR
ALL THE MUSICAL NUMBERS NOW READY.
ANTICIPATE THE D E M A N D -
ORDER RIGHT AWAY!
(A MOHAMMEDAN SERENADE)
M. WITMARK & SONS
CHICAGO — NEW YORK - SAN FRANCISCO —
LONDON - PARIS
"Why Don't the Band Play Dixie?"
liy S. J. Raber,
And Best Seller on the Market.
IMAM 99
I5y Nathaniel D. Mann.
This is the name of that weird and captivating
melody that you hear being played by all bands and
orchestras, unquestionably the biggest instrumental hit
of the year.
VICTOR KREMER CO.
10 8-1 10 Randolph St., Chicago (Opp. Garrick Theatre)
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