Music Trade Review
Issue: 1915 Vol. 60 N. 6 - Page 53
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THE
PUTTING YOU RIGHT!
The Right Kind of Merchandise
is the Short Cut to
BIGGER SALES!
BIGGER BUSINESS!
BIGGER PROFITS!
One Brand of the Right Kind is
"Century Edition"
SHEET MUSIC
Which You Can Sell at Ten Cents
a Copy with a Big Profit
ARE YOU THERE P
Century Music Pub. Go.
231 -235 West 40th St., New York City
MAURICE LEVI TO PUBLISH.
The Maurice Levi Music Publishing Co. has been
organized and opened offices in the Strand Theater
building. The head of the company is Maurice
Levi, the prominent composer and bandmaster, but
the company will not confine itself to the publica-
tion of 'his works alone.
W. C. POLLA & CO. INCORPORATED.
W. C. Polla & Co. filed a certificate of incorpora-
tion with the Secretary of State at Albany on Sat-
urday with a capital stock of $10,000 for the pur-
pose of music publishing. Those interested are M.
Schneider, A. J. Wolff and W. C. Polla, of 1367
Broadway.
The Les Lorden Music Co., San Francisco, Cal.,
has Ix-cn incorporated with capital stock of $20,000.
The incorporators are L. Lorden, J. P. Lorden and
J M. Lorden, and the company will publish music.
10 NEW REMICK
SONG HITS
Over the Hills to Mary.
Chinatown, My Chinatown.
At the Mississippi Cabaret.
I Want to Linger.
When It's Night Time Down in
Burgundy.
There Is Only One California for
Mine.
On the 5.15.
Oh, What a Beautiful Baby.
Come Over to Dover.
Wrap Me in a Bundle (and take
me home with you).
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
NEW YORK
137 W. Fort Street
DETROIT. MICH.
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnsic Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
311 W«tt 43d StrMt, N«w Tori City
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
53
MREVIEWflEARS
THAT the spirit of organization appears to be
in the air in the music trades; as witness the
efforts of the Denver dealers to form a State as-
sociation in Colorado.
THAT the Denver association deserves credit for
being the first to take a public stand on the price
question and fix the minimum price on popular
music at 15 cents.
THAT the Watterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. now
has a new Chicago office at 81-85 West Randolph
street, that city, with Frank Clark in charge.
THAT song writers are in luck just now in being
featured generously in special stories in the daily
papers.
THAT some of the hard workers are wondering
how the lucky ones manage to maintain such active
press agents in these times of depression.
THAT following his great success as a writer of
motion picture scenarios and his entrance into that
Held as a producer, Chas. K. Harris need not worry
about ballad successes.
THAT the professional copy grafter, who is in
such bad odor just now, will probably be elimi-
nated when the giving of professional copies is
stopped entirely, and not before.
THAT "Over the Hills to Mary" (Remick & Co.)
is one of those numbers that is proving up to the
claims made for it before publication. There is
nothing that can be said stronger than that.
A WONDERFUL SUCCESS.
Some Interesting Figures Regarding the Sale
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier."
"Sensational hit" and "million copy hit" are terms
that have been manhandled in the popular music
field until their standard rate of discount aver-
ages 98 per cent. There is one case, however,
where the first expression really has the basis of
proven facts and the second expression will shortly
have facts back of it, and that is the case of
Feist's "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier."
Three hundred thousand copies actually sold in
three weeks is the statement of Edgar F. Bitner,
manager of the Leo Feist, Inc., and not being a
bragging man, Mr. Bitner's words carry convic-
tion to say nothing of the figures at hand to back
up those words. Genuine merit and timeliness in
the song itself, combined with expert, persistent,
widespread and costly publicity, are the secrets of
the success of the number.
The manner in which it is regarded by the critics
of vaudeville performances is indicated by the
following item in the Star-Gazette of Elmira, N. Y.
"The originality of this song is unquestioned;
the beauty of its music conceded ; its text exalted.
But the benefits of its moral influence cannot be
estimated, for in future generations, when this pen
has crumbled into dust, your song, Brother Feist,
will be sung and sung again, and reverberate, a
menace to check bloodshed and to spare life, and
to halt the advance of armies in respect to the
mother who bears her son and bids him Godspeed
— not at the bayonet's point, but in the peaceful
realms of his home and country.' 1
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BLANCHE RING'S NEW
SONG HIT
I "Everybody's Singing
Tipperary, Why Not
Sing Wearin' of
the Green"
Eight to Ten Encores at Every
Performance
7
cents a copy if you attach
t h i s advertisement t o
your order
LEO FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
IVAN CARYLL DUE NEXT WEEK.
Composer of "Chin Chin" and Other 'Successes
Will Make Arrangements for Next Season's
Productions of His Operettas.
Ivan Caryll, composer of the great Broadway
musical comedy success, "Chin Chin," and of a
number of other previous successes, is due to ar-
rive in New York next week on the ss. "Adriatic."
Mr. Caryll will spend some time in the United
States, and in addition to looking over the prog-
ress being made by "Chin Chin," will make ar-
rangements for the production of his operettas in
this country next season.
THE MUSICAL COMEDY HIT
OF THE SEASON!
• Henry Blossom & Victor Herbert's
Brightest and Biggest Success
"The Only Girl"
Now Playing to capacity at the
Lyric Theatre, N. Y.
All the musical numbers, selec-
tion, score NOW READY!
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldg., 144-146 W. 37th St.,
BOSTON
NEW YORK
A REAL HARRIS BALLAD
WALTER JACOBS
i Bosworth St.,
BOSTON, MASS.
Publisher of
(
'Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,
And Some Others World Famous.
OLIVER DITSON
You
Can't G o
Wron£
With
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS t PRINTERS, & ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Mai» Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
"Can You Pay For
A Broken Heart?"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
SOLD WHEREVER MUSIC IS SOLD
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
MEYER COHEN. Mgr.
N e w York
THE
PUTTING YOU RIGHT!
The Right Kind of Merchandise
is the Short Cut to
BIGGER SALES!
BIGGER BUSINESS!
BIGGER PROFITS!
One Brand of the Right Kind is
"Century Edition"
SHEET MUSIC
Which You Can Sell at Ten Cents
a Copy with a Big Profit
ARE YOU THERE P
Century Music Pub. Go.
231 -235 West 40th St., New York City
MAURICE LEVI TO PUBLISH.
The Maurice Levi Music Publishing Co. has been
organized and opened offices in the Strand Theater
building. The head of the company is Maurice
Levi, the prominent composer and bandmaster, but
the company will not confine itself to the publica-
tion of 'his works alone.
W. C. POLLA & CO. INCORPORATED.
W. C. Polla & Co. filed a certificate of incorpora-
tion with the Secretary of State at Albany on Sat-
urday with a capital stock of $10,000 for the pur-
pose of music publishing. Those interested are M.
Schneider, A. J. Wolff and W. C. Polla, of 1367
Broadway.
The Les Lorden Music Co., San Francisco, Cal.,
has Ix-cn incorporated with capital stock of $20,000.
The incorporators are L. Lorden, J. P. Lorden and
J M. Lorden, and the company will publish music.
10 NEW REMICK
SONG HITS
Over the Hills to Mary.
Chinatown, My Chinatown.
At the Mississippi Cabaret.
I Want to Linger.
When It's Night Time Down in
Burgundy.
There Is Only One California for
Mine.
On the 5.15.
Oh, What a Beautiful Baby.
Come Over to Dover.
Wrap Me in a Bundle (and take
me home with you).
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
NEW YORK
137 W. Fort Street
DETROIT. MICH.
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnsic Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
311 W«tt 43d StrMt, N«w Tori City
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
53
MREVIEWflEARS
THAT the spirit of organization appears to be
in the air in the music trades; as witness the
efforts of the Denver dealers to form a State as-
sociation in Colorado.
THAT the Denver association deserves credit for
being the first to take a public stand on the price
question and fix the minimum price on popular
music at 15 cents.
THAT the Watterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. now
has a new Chicago office at 81-85 West Randolph
street, that city, with Frank Clark in charge.
THAT song writers are in luck just now in being
featured generously in special stories in the daily
papers.
THAT some of the hard workers are wondering
how the lucky ones manage to maintain such active
press agents in these times of depression.
THAT following his great success as a writer of
motion picture scenarios and his entrance into that
Held as a producer, Chas. K. Harris need not worry
about ballad successes.
THAT the professional copy grafter, who is in
such bad odor just now, will probably be elimi-
nated when the giving of professional copies is
stopped entirely, and not before.
THAT "Over the Hills to Mary" (Remick & Co.)
is one of those numbers that is proving up to the
claims made for it before publication. There is
nothing that can be said stronger than that.
A WONDERFUL SUCCESS.
Some Interesting Figures Regarding the Sale
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier."
"Sensational hit" and "million copy hit" are terms
that have been manhandled in the popular music
field until their standard rate of discount aver-
ages 98 per cent. There is one case, however,
where the first expression really has the basis of
proven facts and the second expression will shortly
have facts back of it, and that is the case of
Feist's "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier."
Three hundred thousand copies actually sold in
three weeks is the statement of Edgar F. Bitner,
manager of the Leo Feist, Inc., and not being a
bragging man, Mr. Bitner's words carry convic-
tion to say nothing of the figures at hand to back
up those words. Genuine merit and timeliness in
the song itself, combined with expert, persistent,
widespread and costly publicity, are the secrets of
the success of the number.
The manner in which it is regarded by the critics
of vaudeville performances is indicated by the
following item in the Star-Gazette of Elmira, N. Y.
"The originality of this song is unquestioned;
the beauty of its music conceded ; its text exalted.
But the benefits of its moral influence cannot be
estimated, for in future generations, when this pen
has crumbled into dust, your song, Brother Feist,
will be sung and sung again, and reverberate, a
menace to check bloodshed and to spare life, and
to halt the advance of armies in respect to the
mother who bears her son and bids him Godspeed
— not at the bayonet's point, but in the peaceful
realms of his home and country.' 1
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BLANCHE RING'S NEW
SONG HIT
I "Everybody's Singing
Tipperary, Why Not
Sing Wearin' of
the Green"
Eight to Ten Encores at Every
Performance
7
cents a copy if you attach
t h i s advertisement t o
your order
LEO FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
IVAN CARYLL DUE NEXT WEEK.
Composer of "Chin Chin" and Other 'Successes
Will Make Arrangements for Next Season's
Productions of His Operettas.
Ivan Caryll, composer of the great Broadway
musical comedy success, "Chin Chin," and of a
number of other previous successes, is due to ar-
rive in New York next week on the ss. "Adriatic."
Mr. Caryll will spend some time in the United
States, and in addition to looking over the prog-
ress being made by "Chin Chin," will make ar-
rangements for the production of his operettas in
this country next season.
THE MUSICAL COMEDY HIT
OF THE SEASON!
• Henry Blossom & Victor Herbert's
Brightest and Biggest Success
"The Only Girl"
Now Playing to capacity at the
Lyric Theatre, N. Y.
All the musical numbers, selec-
tion, score NOW READY!
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldg., 144-146 W. 37th St.,
BOSTON
NEW YORK
A REAL HARRIS BALLAD
WALTER JACOBS
i Bosworth St.,
BOSTON, MASS.
Publisher of
(
'Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,
And Some Others World Famous.
OLIVER DITSON
You
Can't G o
Wron£
With
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS t PRINTERS, & ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Mai» Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
"Can You Pay For
A Broken Heart?"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
SOLD WHEREVER MUSIC IS SOLD
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
MEYER COHEN. Mgr.
N e w York
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