Music Trade Review

.DECEMBER
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
8, 1923
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BALL SONG WITH NEW FILM
WALTZ AND fox-TROT HITS
Bv AMERICA'S MOST fAMOUS WRITERS
PUBLISHED
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"Dear Little Boy of Mine" to Be Featured With
Latest First National Release
Ernest R. Ball's beautiful ballad, " Dear Little
Boy of Mine," published by M. Witmark ~
Sons, is likely to experience a new and vigo rous
lease of life . This song, one of the hest-known
in the Witmark Black and White Series, was
originally written and published during the
war, and though not actually a war song it
came to be generally regard ed as such. "Dear
Little Boy of Mine " e njoyed a very large meas­
ure of popularity and its sales were big. Now,
however, one of those unexpected but always
possible incidents in the music business is about
to occur th a t will bring th e so n g new publicity
and undoubtedly create a further d emand for
th e n umber. The First National is reLea sing a
feature picture, made by ]. K. McDonald,
starring Ben Alexander, filmed arol!nd a sto ry
written by Booth Tarkington, entitled "Boy of
Mine.'" The Bal1 so ng naturally fits int o the
picture perf,ectly, not only in title but in theme
.and will be used as the theme number through­
out the picture. I ncidentally, the musical score
will be ' made up largely, if not entirely, from
compositions by Ernest R.. Ball. The publish­
ers have iss ued a specia l souvenir edition, with
attractive title page, to comme morate the asso­
ciation of song and film.
GORDON'S MOTION PICTURE MUSIC
Addition to Well-known Edition Is by Walter
C_ Simon-In Loose-leaf Form
CHIlS.
K. H ·IIRRIS. BAOADWAV"Ar-ST.
NEW
YORK
p.r..,r
DEALERS' EXECUTIVES IN MEETING
Discuss Various Trade Problems and Practices
at Special Meeting Held at Chamber of Com­
merce Offices in New York Last Week
There was a meeting of th e Executive Com­
mittee of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers, on Tuesday, November 27, held
in the offices of the Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce, 105 West Fortieth s treet, New
York City, to which th e officers and directors of
th e association were invited.
Although the tim e was short, a general re­
vi ew of trade problems was discussed and some
very timely expressions of opinIOn were
re corded. Of particular and timely interest wa s
the attention given to the plans for furthering
th e sales of Christmas music books, folios,
songs, etc.
The question of extending to dealers on sale
privileges and long time credits on novelty
issues for teachers, schools, co nserva tories, etc.,
was viewed from numerous angles and an an­
a ly sis of the problem was made from both th e
publisher's and dealer's viewpoint. Co-opera­
tion of the publishers, in some instances a long
these lin es ha s already been give n the trade a nd,
undoubt edly, the entire indu st ry will work in
accord with the dealer. However, inasmuch as
the tenden.cy is to shorten the credit time, tht'
movement, in its present form, will hardly re­
ceive unanimous support.
Among those who attended were S. Ernest
Philpitt, Charles VI. Hom eyer, William H.
L evis,]. :M . Priaulx an d M. E. Tompkins. In addi­
tion a talk wa:; made by C. M. Tremaine, of the
National Bureau for th e Adva ncemen t of Music,
on "National Music Week," May 4 to la, 1924.
L. Dennis of the Better Business Bureau, who
has been quite ac tive in recent months in mak­
ing an analysis of dealers' and publishers'
pro.blems, also made a repo·rt of his work.
c.
Ted Kussman, formerly a musician in the the­
a tre in Oshkosh, Wis., is now an organist in the
motion picturp. play hou se in Galesburg, I ll. He
has also Irtunched the Ted Kussm a n Mu sic Co.
Owing to the g reat success of Gordon's Mo­
tion Picture Collection by Sol P. Levy, its pub­
lishers have issued a nother motio·n picture edi­
tion to s uppl e~lle n t that work.
The new co·ll ection is by Walter C. Simon,
who has had consi d erable experience bo th in
writing and playing for motion pictures. He
knows th e req uirements of the moti on picture
organist and musician thoroughly,. so th e new
work is expected to sa tisfy their demands. It
is already in demand.
The collection will be in loose-leaf form and
will be issu ed in twenty-four separate number s
and also in two vo·lumes entitled Gordon's
Loose-leaf Motion Picture Collection.
Each vo lum e will co ntain twelve loose- leaf
numbers , such as agita to'S, comedies, plaintive,
oriental, Indian, inte rme zzo., etc.
MRS. STASNY SAILS FOR EUROPE
Mrs. A. ]. Stas ny, head of the A. ]. Sta s ny
Music Co., Inc., sa il ed for England ea rly thi s
month where she will visit the Stasny English
branch and subsidiary retail establishments in
the British I sles, following which several weeks
will be spe nt on the Continent visiting the
Stasny repr ese ntat ives in Europe.