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February 26, 1927.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
75c—FEBRUARY RELEASES—75c
1694 A Little Music in the Moonlight
—Fox Trot
1673 Candy Lips—Fox Trot
1686 Don't Forget the Pal You Left at
Home—Marimba Waltz
1683 Elsie Schultz-En-Heim—Fox Trot
1682 Give Me a Ukulele—Fox Trot
1661 Gone Again Gal—Fox Trot
1685 Knows His Groceries—Fox Trot
1690 Hello, Swanee! Hello!—Fox Trot
1696 How Could Red Riding Hood?—
Fox Trot
1695 I Don't Mind Being Alone—Fox
Trot
1691 If Tears Could Bring You Back to
Me—Fox Trot
1684 I'm Tellin' the Birds—Tellin' the
Bees—Fox Trot
1687 I t Made You Happy When You
Made Me Cry—Fox Trot
1674 I've Got the Girl—Fox Trot
1689 My Baby Knows How—Fox Trot
1693 My Girl Has Eye Trouble—Fox
Trot
1688 Oh, How She Could Play a Uku-
lele—Fox Trot
1675 Original Black Bottom D a n c e
1679 She's Still My Baby—Fox Trot
1672 Sidewalk Blues
1678 Susie's Feller—Fox Trot
1680 Tonight You Belong to Me—Waltz
1676 Trail of Dreams—Waltz
1697 When I First Met Mary—Fox Trot
1681 When I'm in Your Arms—Fox
Trot
1682 Within the Prison of My Dreams
—Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
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ers and distributors, the Author's League of America,
and the Music Publishers' Protective Association.
The National Periodical Publishers' Association, rep-
resenting copyright office clients making more than
Placing the Sheet Music and Music Books on 40,000 registrations of newspapers and periodicals last
year, are recorded as expressing no desire to oppose
Display in Plain Sight of Customer
the proposed increase.
Is Effective Plan.
The works for which registration may be made in
When a dealer attending a convention of the Na- the copyright office are divided into two classes—
(1) unpublished works, and (2) published works—
tional Association of Sheet Music Dealers railed at
and this permits the registrations to be divided into
the interference to the legitimate dealer by the chain
two categories to correspond. For the former the
stores which handle music, he was effectively chided
charge under the present laws will be continued, $1,
by another dealer. The latter said the way to combat
for registration, including certificate. But in the case
the chain store was to use chain store methods.
These are not a bit reprehensible, but marks of the of all other works, published or reproduced in copies
for sale, where the deposit has been made as re-
ingenuity and energy 'that show a lively spirit.
quired of the work actually published, the fee of $2
A conspicuous feature of the chain store music
for registration, with certificate, is proposed.
counters is that all the current populars are exhibited
The fee now fixed by law for indexing works the
in plain view and that somebody at a piano is always
copyright for which has been assigned is also left
ready to try anything over. Of course, the reproving
unchanged, namely, 10 cents for each title indexed.
dealer pointed out, the piano player might be consid-
ered a detriment by many in the regular trade; a dis-
The bill further proposes a change in the subscrip-
traction to the professional musicians who may be tion price for the Catalogue of Copyright Entries.
visiting the store, but showing the songs and popular This was fixed at $5 the year by the copyright act of
music in a conspicuous way is a great encouragement
1909. Since that time the cost of printing this cata-
to sales.
logue and index of the copyright registrations has
more than doubled. The work consists of a complete
Display tables are among the foremost means to
yearly record of more than 170,000 entries, and
sales favored in modern merchandising. Analysts of
causes and effects in sales concur in the belief that amounts to nearly 8,000 closely printed octavo pages.
display tables are highly suggestive of the desire to An increase to $10 for the complete work for each
year seems entirely reasonable.
buy. Showing goods in that way is a most effective
means of advertising. Sheet music and music books,
teachers' supplies and music school accessories, attrac-
tively arranged on counters, serve the same purpose.
Every article shown has the possibilities of sug-
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
gestion.
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
One customer goes into the store for a violin piece
and sees the song the name and air of which he had
W. E. Summers, music dealer, Larrett, Ind., dis-
recently become familiar. Thus he makes a second
played in his window Thursday a violin, which has
purchase. Another customer whose errand is to buy taken him a year to make. Everything on the violin
a certain popular song falls to the lure of a new book
is hand made.
with a collection of operatic arrangements for the
The Leedy Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, makers
piano.
of drums and xylophones, is holding a series of sales
The reproving dealer at the convention well pointed
concerts throughout the middle west.
out the methods of the chain stores where the goods
A banjo, played by W. C. Peske, was used in a
are displayed on counters and tables, and easily han-
recent presentation of "Skyscrapers," by the Chicago
dled by the customers. These stores do an immense
Symphony Orchestra. The piece is a composition
business during the year because the people passing by John Alden Carpenter and contrasts the moods
through the store are so effectively attracted and can of work and play in modern American life.
so e*asily make selections.
A banjo-saxophone class has been organized by
Fischer's Music House, Toledo, O., with free lessons
for purchasers of instruments from the company.
An unusual run on guitars is a feature of the busi-
ness in the small goods section of Grinnell Bros.,
Committee of House Favorably Reports New Toledo, O.
A complete equipment of Ludwig & Ludwig drums
Measure Increasing Registration Fees of
was recently installed in the orchestra of the new
Work Actually Published and Distributed.
Roxy Theater, New York.
The Linn & Scruggs Co., Decatur, 111., has sold its
The Committee on Patents of the House has just
Victor franchise and stock of Victor phonographs
favorably reported the bill (House Bill No. 16548)
providing for an increase in the fees charged by the and records to the Emerson Piano House in the
same ci>ty.
Copyright Office for registering and assigning copy-
rights and for other services. The measure proposes
an increase of the registration fee from one dollar
INFORMING THE PUBLIC.
to two dollars. It proposes also that other fees shall be
A most important committee of the Boston Music
doubled. According to the statement of the commit-
Publishers Association is that in charge of making
tee the fees now paid do not cover the actual cost of
publicity the association's attitude on topics relating
the service performed.
to music and musical matters. It is composed of
Under the circumstances the increase in fees pro- J. W. Bratten, chairman; C. V. Buttleman and
posed by the bill seems reasonable. The fee for a Charles F. Manney. The committee is a realization
patent was increased $5 by the act approved Febru- of a suggestion of Mr. Bratton of "Music and Youth"
ary 18, 1922, amending Revised Statutes section 4934.
to the effect that the association should prepare en-
The advance in these fees as proposed will still leave
lightening pamphlets on important musical questions
them smaller than similar fees charged in other copy-
which could be inserted in the mailing of statement
right offices.
from the publishing houses.
The increases proposed are small individually (from
SO cents to $1 and from $1 to $2), and even in the
PRIZE FOR ORGAN COMPOSITION.
aggregate will hardly be felt when distributed among
all the producers of copyrighted works throughout
The George Kilgen & Son Organ Co , St. Louis,
this and foreign countries.
through the National Association of Organists, has
Expressions of approval of the proposed increases offered a cash prize of $500 for the best organ com-
were submitted at the hearing on the bill on Thurs-
position submitted before May 15. The composition
day, February 3. Organizations representing most
should be in the form of an overture, tone poem or
of the large clients of the copyright office are on rec- fantasia, taking not less than six nor more than
ord before the committee as directly favoring this in-
twelve minutes to perform. The conditions require
crease in fees proposed—the American Bar Associa-
the composer to be a permanent resident of the
tion, the Publishers' Weekly, motion-picture produc-
United States or Canada for at least five years.
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