Music Trade Review

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APRIL 17, 1920
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
61
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
CHAPPELL TORONTO OFFICE MOVED
Just Watch It Grow !
New Location Gives Increased Floor Space—
Elaborate Plans Prepared for "Miami Week''
TORONTO, CAN., April 12.—Chapell & Co., Ltd.,
have removed their offices and warerooms
to 38 Adelaide street, West. The new ground
floor premises are very centrally located and
give them double the space of the former quar-
ters. Walter Eastman, manager of the New
York branch of Chappell & Co., was in Toronto
recently and spent practically a week inspecting
the new qrarters, with which he is greatly
pleased, and completing arrangements for
"M'ami Week."
The idea of "Miami Week" is to accentuate
the phenomenal popularity of this waltz. Dur-
ing the week they are making arrangements
to have "On Miami Shore" sung in the various
vaudeville houses, played by the hotel orchestras,
and featured and sung in the moving picture
theatres. There is very little doubt but that this
idea will result in a very large increase in sales
of not only the music, but of rolls, word rolls,
and records of this number. They have pre-
pared special advertising in the way of titles,
window cards and streamers for distributing and
will share a portion of the expenses of dealers'
advertising in the local newspapers.
BARR & EVANS OPEN IN ANAHEIM
New Publishing Firm Has Offices at 312 South
Los Angeles Street
ANAHEIM, CAL., April 10.—Barr & Evans, mus-
ical publishers, have established offices in
this city at 312 South Los Angeles street. So
great has been the demand for good, original
material in the way of songs and musical com-
positions that local musicians feel that this en-
terprise will be a boon to the ambitious song
writer.
Messrs. Barr and Evans' experience in the
music publishing business will make possible
the popularizing of the work of local amateur
composers and writers whose work, otherwise
meritorious, may have remained obscure, for
who knows but what the next big song success
will come from an unknown song writer of
Orange county?
The collaboration of Barr and Evans in their
latest song, "You're a Dear Old Dad to Me,"
is destined to be a big success, according to
musicians of standing.
Max Winslow, professional manager of Irv-
ing Berlin, Inc., is making a five weeks' tour
of the twenty-two branches of Irving Berlin, Inc.
Words;.by
WILLIAM LF. BARON
Music by
VICTOR JACOBI
CHAPPELL & CO., LTD., New York, London, Toronto, Melbourne
MUSIC PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION HOLDS MEETING
Unusually Large Attendance Present at Quarterly Meeting of Organization—George W. Pound
and Harold A. Boosey Talk on Copyright Problems—Nominating Committee Appointed
A quarterly meeting of the Music Publishers'
Association of the United States was held at the
McAlpin Hotel on Monday night of this week
and was attended by over thirty members of the
organization, the meeting proper being pre-
ceded by a dinner.
As guest of the evening and principal speaker
George W. Pound, general counsel of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, attended.
C. A. Woodman, president of the Association,
presided. After closing the routine business
of the meeting a nominating committee was ap-
pointed to present a list of proposed officers to
be voted on at the annual meeting, which will
be held in New York June 15 at the Astor Hotel.
The committee for the purpose is composed of
the following: C. A. Woodman, Harold Flam-
mer and E. B. Marks.
It was decided to defer any action regarding
a change of by-laws until the annual meeting of
the Association. This move was made after
a proposal was presented to discontinue the
present quarterly meetings of the Association.
The question of a new mechanical copyright
law was discussed and it seemed to be the con-
sensus of opinion that the present law, with the
elimination of the compulsory license clause and
with the insertion of a clause giving the pub-
lishers the right to make individual contracts,
exclusively if they prefer, would be favored.
Harold A. Boosey, head of Boosey & Co., of
London, England, was asked at this juncture to
give the gathering an idea of the workings of
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the present English copyright law. He stated
that the English publishers are at present oper-
ating under a law passed in 1911, some features
of which were not effective until 1915. On
mechanical reproductions the English houses get
5 per cent of the marked selling price, which is
divided equally among the publisher, author and
composer. Much of this royalty is collected by
an English society, organized for that purpose,
with the exception of the larger publishing
houses, which deal with the mechanical firms
direct. He stated that while the above royalty
applied to the melody only, it was possible for
the English publishers to exact still another
royalty for the use of words, relating to player
rolls, although up to this time this royalty was
never insisted upon.
George W. Pound then addressed the gather-
ing regarding the work of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce and more particularly
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music, as well as the investigation of the pub-
lishers by the Federal Trade Commission and a
general talk on copyright. One pointed re-
mark he made in his talk which seemed to meet
with the genuine approval of those present was:
"The cure for universal unrest is music—music
in the home." In speaking of the copyright
situation and the proposed efforts to have the
present copyright law changed, he said: "Copy-
rights are always the subject of a bitter fight."
Regarding the passage of the 190 () copyright
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