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and the members of the Association could in-
vite a certain number of music teachers to be
present. The details were left in the hands
of a special committee to be appointed by the
chair.
One of the questions put by Mr. Davison
for the purpose of getting an expression of
opinion was: Is a large mailing list an asset
or a liability to a publishing house? It was
the consensus of opinion that only a list prop-
erly supervised and kept right up to date is an
asset; any other kind of a list is a liability.
Another query that brought out some worth-
while views was: Has the radio affected the
sale of songs? This was answered with dif-
ferences of opinion; some thought yes, most
of them no. A wire was read from John L.
Bratton, of New York, expressing his inability
to be present because of illness.
Mr. Gaines, the guest of the evening, made
a feeling reference to two deceased members
whom he always enjoyed meeting, Clarence A.
Woodman and Charles W. Thompson, and then
hi: proceeded to expand on the idea of a closer
co-operation between the composer, the music
teacher and the music publisher. He referred
to composers as the creative artists and
those he thought should cultivate the publish-
ers more. The publisher after all was the
cc mposer's best friend and he advised that all
barriers be broken down. He referred to a
recent trip he took into the South, where he
found considerable talent and he said he was
always glad to listen to them and to look over
manuscripts, although, of course, some awful
stuff is met with. The next meeting of the
Association will be held in November.
Locate in Los Angeles
Los ANGELES, CAL., October 13.—Miller & Shoe-
maker, Inc., music publishers, formerly at 745
Seventh avenue, New York, have located here
recently at 244 North Western avenue. The
company plans to continue working on many
of its songs released in the East, such as "No-
body but You," "Dream Hours" and "Just
Whisper," and will also add to its catalog in
the near future.
HERE IT IS!
The Song you've had so many calls for
and thought it was an old one.
BUT IT'S NOT—IT'S NEW
and A NATURAL
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Fox'"The Four Devils"
Rapee and Pollack Furnish "Marion" and "Des-
tiny" in Score for New William Fox Special
Production
A new precedent of supplying two theme
songs for a single photoplay was set with the
recent release of the William Fox picture, "The
Four Devils," at the Gaiety Theatre, New York.
Two numbers, entitled "Marion" and "Destiny,"
were written for the film by Erno Rapee and
Lew Pollack, writers of "Charmaine," "Diane,"
"Angela Mia," and other well-known theme
songs.
Both songs are published by De Sylva,
Brown & Henderson, Inc., New York, which
made a conspicuous entrance into the theme
song field this year with "Sonny Boy," "Angela
Mia" and other theme numbers.
The picture is expected to be a sweeping suc-
cess with Janet Gaynor, Nancy Drexel, Barry
Norton and Charles Morton as stars. The
song, "Marion," is used as the love theme
throughout the picture, and "Destiny' 1 is the
dramatic theme. An exploitation campaign has
been arranged by the De Sylva firm for both
numbers similar to those conducted for the
pictures, "Street Angel" and the "Singing Fool,"
according to Sam Lerner, manager of the pub-
licity department, who also supervises the slide
versions for the company's catalog.
New Releases Announced
by G. Schirmer, Inc.
Some interesting new songs are included in
the recent publications of G. Schirmer, Inc.,
New York, among them three excerpts from
John Masefield's poem, "The Widow in the
Bye Street," set to music for voice and accom-
paniment by Sidney Homer. The separate
pieces are entitled "Down the Bye Street," "The
Widow's Prayer" and "The Widow's Song."
Other new songs in the Schirmer list are "The
Harp," by Ida Bostelmann; "The Lamplighter"
and "Where Cherries Bloom," two flower songs
by Marian Coryell; "Lullaby for a Baby Fairy,"
by Minnie Coons Freeman; "Life's Sunshine,"
by Syrene Lister; "The Little Brown Head,"
by Alice Warren Sachse and others. New
Schirmer piano pieces include a four-hand
arrangement by Harold Bauer of Franz Schu-
bert's Rondo Brillante, Op. 84, No. 2; two
whimsical pieces, "Elfin Dance" and "Mar-
ionettes" by Hugo Felix; "The Placid Lake,"
last in a series of "Silhouettes," by Frances
Terry; "Valse Caprice," by Minnie Coons Free-
man; two piano narratives, "A Mysterious
Story" and "The Old Whet-Stone A-Grinding."
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The Music Trade Review
OCTOBER 20, 1928