Presto
Issue: 1925 2024 - Page 25
May 9, 1925.
25
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
HEARING IN CHICAGO
Representative Sol Bloom to Preside at Hear-
ing on Perkins Copyright Bill in West-
ern City Next Week.
The sub-committee of the Patents Committee on
the Perkins Bill will be resumed in Chicago next
week following two weeks' hearing in the rooms of
the New York Bar Association, 42 West Forty-fourth
street, New York. Congressman Sol Bloom, a for-
mer music publisher, will represent the sub-commit-
tee in Chicago and will conduct the hearings there.
This week and last were permitted the various groups
to discuss their differences at the New York session
and the findings will be in Mr. Bloom's hands this
week.
The session next week in Chicago will afford all
persons unable to attend the New York meeting an
opportunity to state their views. It is believed that
this bringing together of the various interests to
discuss differences is an effective means towards
framing a copyright bill. It is conceded to be a help
towards reconciling the differences of the warring
factions so that the Patents Committee this winter
could present to the new Congress a copyright bill
that would be satisfactory to all.
TWO ANNUAL CONVENTIONS
Associations of Sheet Music Dealers and Sheet Music
Publishers to Hold Conventions Week of June 8.
The National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
will hold its twelfth annual convention at the Hotel
McAlpin, New York City, on June 8, 9 and 10. On
Tuesday, June 9, the Music Publishers' Association
of the United States will hold its annual meeting in
the same hotel and in the evening give the annual
dinner, at which prominent dealers will be guests.
The meeting of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers will be enlivened by addresses that
will be heartening to the trade, inasmuch as they
will show the wonderful growth in sales of standard
music with no diminution of the calls for the music
of the popular variety. The importance of music in
REMICK SONG HITS
I Can't Stop Babying You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Swanee Butterfly
By the Light of the Stars
Old Pal
Somebody Like You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
Don't Bring Lulu
Take Me Back to Your Heart
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
schools will be shown by its effect on sheet music
sales.
The effect of the net price markings on the trade
will be another congratulatory fact told about at the
convention, which will consider and adopt new con-
structive measures for the coming year.
PHILPITT SCORES JAZZ.
S. Ernest Philpitt, the Florida music dealer, stated
very definite ideas on modern music in an interview
at the formal opening of his new Miami store re-
cently. "I am no admirer of jazz," he said. "I re-
gard it as a depraved taste, and do not think it can
continue indefinitely. People respond to music of the
higher, classic type. That has been demonstrated in
Miami beyond a doubt, by the great audiences we
have had for the great artists we have had here, and
by the every-day experience of watching the audi-
ences of Arthur Pryor. It almost goes without say-
ing that jazz can never attract the true artistry that
lies in everyone, as the classics can. Jazz cannot
continue indefinitely."
DENTIST A COMPOSER.
Dr. Uno A. Nyman, a dentist, won the first prize
of $100 in the composers' contest held recently by
the Milwaukee Music Association. The second prize
of $50 was awarded to Alexander MacFayden, na-
tionally known composer, and the third to Carl
Eppert, composer of the opera, "Kaintuckee." The
compositions winning the awards were presented in
concert last week, by the Civic Music Association.
ROBBED OF RADIO GOODS.
The H. Reichardt Talking Machine shop, 6421
South Halsted street, Chicago, was robbed of $1,200
worth of radios last week. By cutting the iron bars
in the rear of the store and prying the windows, a set
of radio robbers entered the store and selected
$1,200 worth of the finest radio goods. The robbery
was discovered by the regular watchman on that
beat.
BUYS CALIFORNIA BUSINESS.
The Long Beach, Cal., branch of the Fitzgerald
Music Co. has been purchased by Donald E.
Humphreys, who for the last nine years has con-
ducted a sheet music and general music store at 333
Pine avenue. The combined businesses will be oper-
ated under the name of the Fitzgerald Music Co. in
the future.
NEW ASSOCIATION FORMED.
The Association of Music Men, an organization of
salesmen of the New York music publishing houses,
was recently formed principally for social purposes.
The new constitution and by-laws will be voted upon
at the next meeting when officers will be elected.
It is proposed to hold an outing June 7.
BIG SHEET MUSIC STOCK.
The sheet music department of the J. R. Reed
Music Co., Austin, Tex., carries one of the largest
stocks of popular and classical music in Texas. Miss
Gertie Moses, the efficient manager, states that some
hundred thousand pieces of music are kept on the
shelves.
LANGUAGE BY RADIO.
Spanish and French lessons taught from WLW,
Cincinnati, have met with such hearty responses from
listener-pupils that new languages will be added in
the course of time.
CLAIMS JEWISH SONG.
Jacob Koppel Sandier, who claims he wrote the
music of the famous Jewish lament, "Eli, Eli," is
suing a firm of music publishers for $500,000 for in-
fringement of copyright.
VICTOR CO.'S RADIO PLANS
Remark in Annual Report of President El-
dridge R. Johnson Held to Indicate Im-
portant Action by the Company.
A remark of Eldridge R. Johnson, president of the
Victor Talking Machine Co., in a recent annual re-
port, is interpreted to mean that the company will
enter the radio field. In his report Mr. Johnson said:
"Plans, carefully and deliberately developed, to-
wards meeting the conditions confronting the indus-
try, are rapidly nearing maturity and are anticipated
to maintain your company in its position in the van
of the entertainment field."
Although the officials of the company declined to
comment on the statement of the president or to
supplement them in any way, it is learned that the
company is manufacturing a loud speaker with dis-
tinctive characteristics, the patent rights of which are
the exclusive property of the Victor Talking Ma-
chine Co.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The stock of music of A. A. Taylor, Tacoma,
Wash., sold recently to Sherman, Clay & Co., con-
sisted of 225,000 pieces of music and 100,000 music
books, said to be the finest collection on the Pacific
Coast.
The constant growth of the sheet music business
of Costain Bros., Huron, S. D., makes necessary the
allotment of more space to the department.
Sheet music is handled in the new branch of the
Merrifield Co., San Luis Obispo, Calif., recently
opened in Porterville, Calif., with Earl Merrifield as
manager.
"Fifteen minutes of old-time American songs" will
be broadcast every evening from 7:45 to 8 p. m. by
Radio Super-Station WHT, in the Wrigley Building,
Chicago.
The Wide-A-Wake Variety Store, Longmont, Colo.,
owned by Vic Orr, has branched out ,occupying the
entire storeroom at 622 Main street. Mr. Orr an-
nounces that he will increase his sheet music depart-
ment.
Miss Mildred Handler is now in charge of the sheet
music department of the Portland Piano Co. in Lip-
man-Wolfe's department store, Portland, Ore. Miss
Handler has had considerable experience in the sheet
music field.
The Charles E. Wells Music Co., of Denver, which
has had a branch for several years located in the
Kirkpatrick Buliding, Longmont, Col., has moved to
the Ledger Building on Fourth avenue.
Radio engineers have devoted a lot of time to the
study of portable radio receivers and there are many
types on the market. Some are large and cumber-
some and others are small and inefficient. The ideal
portable receiver is one which can be depended upon
for reception of broadcast concerts; light in weight;
capable of holding a reasonable amount of battery
energy; compact and simply operated.
More portable receivers will be used this year than
ever before. Super-power broadcasting stations will
permit hearing the broadcast concerts above the
static level, while nearly all of the stations will con-
tinue with programs throughout the summer. The
number of broadcasting stations scattered through-
out the country makes it possible to tune-in to one
of them regardless of where the user may be with his
portable receiver.
A. L. Rhodes, of Leon, Iowa, has purchased the
music business conducted for several years in Lacona,
Iowa, by C. H. Bealer under the name of the Whitely
Music Store.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
9est
x
A N Y PUBLISHER
OUR REFERENCE
BAYNER DALHEIM & Col
'
WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
2054-2060 W.Lake StXhicaqoJll.
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25
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
HEARING IN CHICAGO
Representative Sol Bloom to Preside at Hear-
ing on Perkins Copyright Bill in West-
ern City Next Week.
The sub-committee of the Patents Committee on
the Perkins Bill will be resumed in Chicago next
week following two weeks' hearing in the rooms of
the New York Bar Association, 42 West Forty-fourth
street, New York. Congressman Sol Bloom, a for-
mer music publisher, will represent the sub-commit-
tee in Chicago and will conduct the hearings there.
This week and last were permitted the various groups
to discuss their differences at the New York session
and the findings will be in Mr. Bloom's hands this
week.
The session next week in Chicago will afford all
persons unable to attend the New York meeting an
opportunity to state their views. It is believed that
this bringing together of the various interests to
discuss differences is an effective means towards
framing a copyright bill. It is conceded to be a help
towards reconciling the differences of the warring
factions so that the Patents Committee this winter
could present to the new Congress a copyright bill
that would be satisfactory to all.
TWO ANNUAL CONVENTIONS
Associations of Sheet Music Dealers and Sheet Music
Publishers to Hold Conventions Week of June 8.
The National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
will hold its twelfth annual convention at the Hotel
McAlpin, New York City, on June 8, 9 and 10. On
Tuesday, June 9, the Music Publishers' Association
of the United States will hold its annual meeting in
the same hotel and in the evening give the annual
dinner, at which prominent dealers will be guests.
The meeting of the National Association of Sheet
Music Dealers will be enlivened by addresses that
will be heartening to the trade, inasmuch as they
will show the wonderful growth in sales of standard
music with no diminution of the calls for the music
of the popular variety. The importance of music in
REMICK SONG HITS
I Can't Stop Babying You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Swanee Butterfly
By the Light of the Stars
Old Pal
Somebody Like You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
Don't Bring Lulu
Take Me Back to Your Heart
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
schools will be shown by its effect on sheet music
sales.
The effect of the net price markings on the trade
will be another congratulatory fact told about at the
convention, which will consider and adopt new con-
structive measures for the coming year.
PHILPITT SCORES JAZZ.
S. Ernest Philpitt, the Florida music dealer, stated
very definite ideas on modern music in an interview
at the formal opening of his new Miami store re-
cently. "I am no admirer of jazz," he said. "I re-
gard it as a depraved taste, and do not think it can
continue indefinitely. People respond to music of the
higher, classic type. That has been demonstrated in
Miami beyond a doubt, by the great audiences we
have had for the great artists we have had here, and
by the every-day experience of watching the audi-
ences of Arthur Pryor. It almost goes without say-
ing that jazz can never attract the true artistry that
lies in everyone, as the classics can. Jazz cannot
continue indefinitely."
DENTIST A COMPOSER.
Dr. Uno A. Nyman, a dentist, won the first prize
of $100 in the composers' contest held recently by
the Milwaukee Music Association. The second prize
of $50 was awarded to Alexander MacFayden, na-
tionally known composer, and the third to Carl
Eppert, composer of the opera, "Kaintuckee." The
compositions winning the awards were presented in
concert last week, by the Civic Music Association.
ROBBED OF RADIO GOODS.
The H. Reichardt Talking Machine shop, 6421
South Halsted street, Chicago, was robbed of $1,200
worth of radios last week. By cutting the iron bars
in the rear of the store and prying the windows, a set
of radio robbers entered the store and selected
$1,200 worth of the finest radio goods. The robbery
was discovered by the regular watchman on that
beat.
BUYS CALIFORNIA BUSINESS.
The Long Beach, Cal., branch of the Fitzgerald
Music Co. has been purchased by Donald E.
Humphreys, who for the last nine years has con-
ducted a sheet music and general music store at 333
Pine avenue. The combined businesses will be oper-
ated under the name of the Fitzgerald Music Co. in
the future.
NEW ASSOCIATION FORMED.
The Association of Music Men, an organization of
salesmen of the New York music publishing houses,
was recently formed principally for social purposes.
The new constitution and by-laws will be voted upon
at the next meeting when officers will be elected.
It is proposed to hold an outing June 7.
BIG SHEET MUSIC STOCK.
The sheet music department of the J. R. Reed
Music Co., Austin, Tex., carries one of the largest
stocks of popular and classical music in Texas. Miss
Gertie Moses, the efficient manager, states that some
hundred thousand pieces of music are kept on the
shelves.
LANGUAGE BY RADIO.
Spanish and French lessons taught from WLW,
Cincinnati, have met with such hearty responses from
listener-pupils that new languages will be added in
the course of time.
CLAIMS JEWISH SONG.
Jacob Koppel Sandier, who claims he wrote the
music of the famous Jewish lament, "Eli, Eli," is
suing a firm of music publishers for $500,000 for in-
fringement of copyright.
VICTOR CO.'S RADIO PLANS
Remark in Annual Report of President El-
dridge R. Johnson Held to Indicate Im-
portant Action by the Company.
A remark of Eldridge R. Johnson, president of the
Victor Talking Machine Co., in a recent annual re-
port, is interpreted to mean that the company will
enter the radio field. In his report Mr. Johnson said:
"Plans, carefully and deliberately developed, to-
wards meeting the conditions confronting the indus-
try, are rapidly nearing maturity and are anticipated
to maintain your company in its position in the van
of the entertainment field."
Although the officials of the company declined to
comment on the statement of the president or to
supplement them in any way, it is learned that the
company is manufacturing a loud speaker with dis-
tinctive characteristics, the patent rights of which are
the exclusive property of the Victor Talking Ma-
chine Co.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The stock of music of A. A. Taylor, Tacoma,
Wash., sold recently to Sherman, Clay & Co., con-
sisted of 225,000 pieces of music and 100,000 music
books, said to be the finest collection on the Pacific
Coast.
The constant growth of the sheet music business
of Costain Bros., Huron, S. D., makes necessary the
allotment of more space to the department.
Sheet music is handled in the new branch of the
Merrifield Co., San Luis Obispo, Calif., recently
opened in Porterville, Calif., with Earl Merrifield as
manager.
"Fifteen minutes of old-time American songs" will
be broadcast every evening from 7:45 to 8 p. m. by
Radio Super-Station WHT, in the Wrigley Building,
Chicago.
The Wide-A-Wake Variety Store, Longmont, Colo.,
owned by Vic Orr, has branched out ,occupying the
entire storeroom at 622 Main street. Mr. Orr an-
nounces that he will increase his sheet music depart-
ment.
Miss Mildred Handler is now in charge of the sheet
music department of the Portland Piano Co. in Lip-
man-Wolfe's department store, Portland, Ore. Miss
Handler has had considerable experience in the sheet
music field.
The Charles E. Wells Music Co., of Denver, which
has had a branch for several years located in the
Kirkpatrick Buliding, Longmont, Col., has moved to
the Ledger Building on Fourth avenue.
Radio engineers have devoted a lot of time to the
study of portable radio receivers and there are many
types on the market. Some are large and cumber-
some and others are small and inefficient. The ideal
portable receiver is one which can be depended upon
for reception of broadcast concerts; light in weight;
capable of holding a reasonable amount of battery
energy; compact and simply operated.
More portable receivers will be used this year than
ever before. Super-power broadcasting stations will
permit hearing the broadcast concerts above the
static level, while nearly all of the stations will con-
tinue with programs throughout the summer. The
number of broadcasting stations scattered through-
out the country makes it possible to tune-in to one
of them regardless of where the user may be with his
portable receiver.
A. L. Rhodes, of Leon, Iowa, has purchased the
music business conducted for several years in Lacona,
Iowa, by C. H. Bealer under the name of the Whitely
Music Store.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
9est
x
A N Y PUBLISHER
OUR REFERENCE
BAYNER DALHEIM & Col
'
WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
2054-2060 W.Lake StXhicaqoJll.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).