Music Trade Review
Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 24 - Page 157
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THE MUSIC TRADE
LOOK
For CENTURY Edition
Advertisements in the
following Publications:
Periodical
Ladies' Home Journal
Woman's Home Companion
Delineator
Good Housekeeping
McCall's Magazine
Hearst's Magazine
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Pictorial Review
McClure's Magazine
Saturday Evening Post
Harper's Magazine
American Sunday Mag.
New York American
Boston American
Atlanta Hearst's American
Chicago Examiner
San Francisco Examiner
Los Angeles Examiner
Dakota Farmer
Kimball's Dairy Farmer
Circulation
1,592,886
916,444
819,902
450,000
1,243,368
426,663
- 1,092,289
1,200,000
616,078
1,910,282
105,784
REVIEW
137
Moon,' all of which should have made money,
and big money, for the house of Harris. They
have sold in very large quantities, but until the
time comes when overhead expenses can be
eliminated, there is no use of any popular pub-
lisher trying to keep up the struggle, as it is
only a survival of the fittest, and those houses
which have not placed their business upon a
strong basis by watching the big expenses, and
establishing better and more profitable rates,
will do well to attend to this at once, or they
must inevitably be forced from the field."
CAN'T REGULATE MUSIC TASTES
Baltimore Ordinance, Designed to Force Rec-
ognition of "Star Spangled Banner" Arouses
Howl of Protest From Citizens
The "Star Spangled Banner" is recognized as
692,328
the national anthem of the United States.
320,577
When it is played at concerts, in the theatre
84,422
514,547
or in any public place, the audience by mutual
246,131
146,179
consent generally arises and remains standing
56,299
during the rendition of the piece. That is all
160,000
voluntary and as a mark of general respect.
12,595,079
Tremendous Total
The good city fathers of Baltimore, however,
thought that this practice of standing up when
the "Star Spangled Banner" was played should
be made mandatory and likewise decided to
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
outline just when and where the national an-
them should be played legally. What was
first designed to be a patriotic ordinance, how-
"1 feel that before the year of 1917, the pub- ever, was quickly credited by some to be an
lishers will begin to realize that they cannot actual infringement of the constitutional rights
publish music and sell it at the prices they are of the great American people. Letters of
receiving at present, and continue in business. protest were frequent and always strong. As
Even though I have been in this business for one writer aptly put it: "Can it be true that
twenty-five years, publishing popular music and in this twentieth century a handful of men can
making a success of it, I have often felt that come together and dictate to more than half
rather than lose the money that I worked so a million people when they should stand, sit,
hard to make I would rather shut up shop en- lie down or perform any other act under pen-
tirely and go into some other business, where alty of a heavy fine for failure to comply?"
at least a man can make an honest living with-
And that has been the general sentiment in
out the worry, trouble and anxiety which has
come to the popular publishers in the last five
TWO CONCERT BALLAD SUCCESSES
years, and I feel assured that many of the pop-
ular publishers feel the same as I at the pres-
ent time. That there is a ray of light appear-
ing through the dark clouds, coming soon, is
Ai featured in the Opera "Martha," by
the only hope that has kept the popular publish-
Elaine DeSellem, leading contralto with
ers from throwing up the sponge.
the Boston English Opera Co., now en tour
"Never, in my twenty-five years of experience
Brilliant
has the house of Harris showed such wonder-
Encore
ful ballads as in the past year. Among them
Song
are: 'All I Want Is a Cottage, Some Roses
and You,' 'The Story of a Soul,' 'Come Back'
15 CENTS FOR A LIMITED TIME
(Let's Be Sweethearts Once More), 'Songs of
CHICAGO McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
Yesterday,' 'It's a Long, Long Time Since I've
Been Home,' 'Love Me Little, Love Me Long,'
'In the Evening Time' (By Jos. E. Howard),
The Song of the Moment
'She Comes From a Quaint Little Town in
Pennsylvania,' and such big instrumental suc-
cesses as: 'Skating Waltzes,' 'Grasshopper's
Hop,' 'American Hearts,' 'Neath the Hawaiian
g
Irene Franklin's Latest S u c c e s s
1 "The Melting of Molly" 1
|
NOW ON TOUR
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
ORDER
Red, White, Blues
Mister Buzz Saw
Alpine Sunset, Valse Romantique
Valse Egyptian
The Jubilator March
Visions of Madrid, Spanish Serenade
The Isle of Palms
A Night in June, Serenade
FROM ANY JOBBER OR
C. L BARNHOUSE,
OSKA
os IA
£°s /
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music ? Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
311 West 43d Street
New York City
We Publish an Excellent Line of Teaching Music
Clfwrrlj, faxium an& (ft
IJ67-IJ69 BROADWAY.
NEW YORK
('Till the Boys Come Home)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
NEW YORK
|
1
I
|
jj
|
M
Some typical "Franklin" Songs— 1
"Bread and Jam"
j
"Oh, Doctor"
|
"Grandma, Dear Grandma"
1
"Eat and the World Eats with You" |
(Diet and You Dine Alone)
m
1
1
and
"Gossip"—A Fox Trot
Century Music Pub. Co.
WHEN SHADOWS
FALL
"DARLIN"'
§f
jj
|
SPECIAL PRICE TO DEALERS
2Oc
a copy if you attach this
Advt. to your order
LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
Baltimore, which all goes to prove that despite
the success of popular song publishers in forc-
ing the public to believe that they like a song
because they hear it so often that even the
rulers of a city of half a million population
cannot with impunity tell the citizens how
they must behave when even the national an-
them is played.
"SOMETIME"
Successfully introduced in "Betty" by
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK
ALSO
"Erin Is Calling"
"Come Over Here It's a Wonderful Place"
" M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i"
"Turn to the Right"
"That Old New England Town"
"Sometime" Fox-Trot Time
and Geo. M. Cohan's Latest Song
"There's Only One Little Girl"
Win. Jerome Publishing Corporation
Strand Theatre Building, NEW YORK CITY
B - B - B - B - B
.
THESE 5 BS STAND FOR THE NEW
1
BALL• BRENNAN • BEAUTIFUL
• BIG B A L L A D *
>
,
B TURN BACK M M
^
AND GIVE ME YESTERDAY ^
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
p blishers
BOSTON »
WALTER JACOBS
8 Bosworth St.,
BOSTON, MASS.
publisher .»Merry M a d n e s s "
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Dealers
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
ANOTHER SENSATIONAL HIT
BY THESE WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ALREADY SELLING TREM6ND0USLY
MWITMARK-t SONS
I NEW YORK - CHICAGO WIIADEIPHIA - BOSTON • JAN FRANCISCO - LONDON
B-B-B-B-B
R
THE MUSIC TRADE
LOOK
For CENTURY Edition
Advertisements in the
following Publications:
Periodical
Ladies' Home Journal
Woman's Home Companion
Delineator
Good Housekeeping
McCall's Magazine
Hearst's Magazine
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Pictorial Review
McClure's Magazine
Saturday Evening Post
Harper's Magazine
American Sunday Mag.
New York American
Boston American
Atlanta Hearst's American
Chicago Examiner
San Francisco Examiner
Los Angeles Examiner
Dakota Farmer
Kimball's Dairy Farmer
Circulation
1,592,886
916,444
819,902
450,000
1,243,368
426,663
- 1,092,289
1,200,000
616,078
1,910,282
105,784
REVIEW
137
Moon,' all of which should have made money,
and big money, for the house of Harris. They
have sold in very large quantities, but until the
time comes when overhead expenses can be
eliminated, there is no use of any popular pub-
lisher trying to keep up the struggle, as it is
only a survival of the fittest, and those houses
which have not placed their business upon a
strong basis by watching the big expenses, and
establishing better and more profitable rates,
will do well to attend to this at once, or they
must inevitably be forced from the field."
CAN'T REGULATE MUSIC TASTES
Baltimore Ordinance, Designed to Force Rec-
ognition of "Star Spangled Banner" Arouses
Howl of Protest From Citizens
The "Star Spangled Banner" is recognized as
692,328
the national anthem of the United States.
320,577
When it is played at concerts, in the theatre
84,422
514,547
or in any public place, the audience by mutual
246,131
146,179
consent generally arises and remains standing
56,299
during the rendition of the piece. That is all
160,000
voluntary and as a mark of general respect.
12,595,079
Tremendous Total
The good city fathers of Baltimore, however,
thought that this practice of standing up when
the "Star Spangled Banner" was played should
be made mandatory and likewise decided to
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
outline just when and where the national an-
them should be played legally. What was
first designed to be a patriotic ordinance, how-
"1 feel that before the year of 1917, the pub- ever, was quickly credited by some to be an
lishers will begin to realize that they cannot actual infringement of the constitutional rights
publish music and sell it at the prices they are of the great American people. Letters of
receiving at present, and continue in business. protest were frequent and always strong. As
Even though I have been in this business for one writer aptly put it: "Can it be true that
twenty-five years, publishing popular music and in this twentieth century a handful of men can
making a success of it, I have often felt that come together and dictate to more than half
rather than lose the money that I worked so a million people when they should stand, sit,
hard to make I would rather shut up shop en- lie down or perform any other act under pen-
tirely and go into some other business, where alty of a heavy fine for failure to comply?"
at least a man can make an honest living with-
And that has been the general sentiment in
out the worry, trouble and anxiety which has
come to the popular publishers in the last five
TWO CONCERT BALLAD SUCCESSES
years, and I feel assured that many of the pop-
ular publishers feel the same as I at the pres-
ent time. That there is a ray of light appear-
ing through the dark clouds, coming soon, is
Ai featured in the Opera "Martha," by
the only hope that has kept the popular publish-
Elaine DeSellem, leading contralto with
ers from throwing up the sponge.
the Boston English Opera Co., now en tour
"Never, in my twenty-five years of experience
Brilliant
has the house of Harris showed such wonder-
Encore
ful ballads as in the past year. Among them
Song
are: 'All I Want Is a Cottage, Some Roses
and You,' 'The Story of a Soul,' 'Come Back'
15 CENTS FOR A LIMITED TIME
(Let's Be Sweethearts Once More), 'Songs of
CHICAGO McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
Yesterday,' 'It's a Long, Long Time Since I've
Been Home,' 'Love Me Little, Love Me Long,'
'In the Evening Time' (By Jos. E. Howard),
The Song of the Moment
'She Comes From a Quaint Little Town in
Pennsylvania,' and such big instrumental suc-
cesses as: 'Skating Waltzes,' 'Grasshopper's
Hop,' 'American Hearts,' 'Neath the Hawaiian
g
Irene Franklin's Latest S u c c e s s
1 "The Melting of Molly" 1
|
NOW ON TOUR
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
ORDER
Red, White, Blues
Mister Buzz Saw
Alpine Sunset, Valse Romantique
Valse Egyptian
The Jubilator March
Visions of Madrid, Spanish Serenade
The Isle of Palms
A Night in June, Serenade
FROM ANY JOBBER OR
C. L BARNHOUSE,
OSKA
os IA
£°s /
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music ? Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
311 West 43d Street
New York City
We Publish an Excellent Line of Teaching Music
Clfwrrlj, faxium an& (ft
IJ67-IJ69 BROADWAY.
NEW YORK
('Till the Boys Come Home)
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.
NEW YORK
|
1
I
|
jj
|
M
Some typical "Franklin" Songs— 1
"Bread and Jam"
j
"Oh, Doctor"
|
"Grandma, Dear Grandma"
1
"Eat and the World Eats with You" |
(Diet and You Dine Alone)
m
1
1
and
"Gossip"—A Fox Trot
Century Music Pub. Co.
WHEN SHADOWS
FALL
"DARLIN"'
§f
jj
|
SPECIAL PRICE TO DEALERS
2Oc
a copy if you attach this
Advt. to your order
LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
Baltimore, which all goes to prove that despite
the success of popular song publishers in forc-
ing the public to believe that they like a song
because they hear it so often that even the
rulers of a city of half a million population
cannot with impunity tell the citizens how
they must behave when even the national an-
them is played.
"SOMETIME"
Successfully introduced in "Betty" by
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK
ALSO
"Erin Is Calling"
"Come Over Here It's a Wonderful Place"
" M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i"
"Turn to the Right"
"That Old New England Town"
"Sometime" Fox-Trot Time
and Geo. M. Cohan's Latest Song
"There's Only One Little Girl"
Win. Jerome Publishing Corporation
Strand Theatre Building, NEW YORK CITY
B - B - B - B - B
.
THESE 5 BS STAND FOR THE NEW
1
BALL• BRENNAN • BEAUTIFUL
• BIG B A L L A D *
>
,
B TURN BACK M M
^
AND GIVE ME YESTERDAY ^
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
p blishers
BOSTON »
WALTER JACOBS
8 Bosworth St.,
BOSTON, MASS.
publisher .»Merry M a d n e s s "
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Dealers
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
ANOTHER SENSATIONAL HIT
BY THESE WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ALREADY SELLING TREM6ND0USLY
MWITMARK-t SONS
I NEW YORK - CHICAGO WIIADEIPHIA - BOSTON • JAN FRANCISCO - LONDON
B-B-B-B-B
R
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