Presto

PRESTO-TIMES
16
publishing field. He has played football in the "Red"
Grange League.
Three hundred and two members of the American
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at-
Department Are Printed.
tended the annual banquet of the organization last
Rubank, Inc., Chicago, music publishers, will move week at the Ritz-Carlton, New York.
Princess Watawaso, a full-blooded Penobscot
to its new building, Campbell and Lexington ave-
nues, May 1. The company, which was started in Indian, now making a concert lour, features the.songs
of Charles Wakefield Cadman. In a number of songs
1918, publishes books for teachers.
on her program her accompaniments are special rec-
C. Hugo Grimm, a Cincinnati composer and organ- ords made by the composer for the Duo-Art repro-
ist, was recently declared winner of the $1,000 prize ducing piano.
of the National Federation of Music Clubs for the
The Mil-Rose Music Co. is the name of a new
best symphonic composition submitted in a contest. music publishing house in Columbus, O., recently
A prize of $1,000 has been offered by the Society incorporated by Mildred E. Guttnan and Rosalie
of Friends of Music for an original cantata for chorus,
Ruden.
orchestra and solo voices. The competition closes
New additions to the "Musicians' Library" of the
November 1.
Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, are two new volumes of
The Lyric Music House, Inc., Manila, P. I., has "Modern Scandinavian Songs" and "Seventy Negro
been appointed agent for the Philippines for W. A. Spirituals."
Quincke & Co., music publisher, Los Angeles.
The sheet music business for March showed a big
improvement of previous months of 1927 in the Wiley
R. Allen Co., San Diego, Cal., according to J. Hugh
Cooley, manager.
Miss Edith Rhetts, of Detroit, Doing a Great Work
Cal De Val, a song writer, has opened an office in
for Musical Instrument Cause in Michigan.
Chicago.
Pat Flaherty, new manager of the New York office
Miss Edith Rhetts, educational director of Detroit
of the Ted Brown Music Co., Inc., Chicago, is as Symphony Orchestra, is spending her entire time in
well known in the sporting world as in the music
instilling into the minds of the school children of
Michigan an appreciation of good music and giving
them an opportunity to hear the music 'they are study-
ing about at concerts given just for them, the same
NEW SPARKLING SONGS FOR YOUR
way that grown-ups have concerts given for them.
Miss Rhetts teaches the different instruments used
COUNTERS
by the orchestra and the place that they have in the
Your Arms Are Home Sweet Home to Me.
whole harmony. Often she will ask the children to
Yes, Dreams Come True. (Waltz Ballad.)
tell her what some instrument was that was prom-
We Don't Know Where We're Going:. (Comic.)
inent in a certain strain of the music. If they do not
Memories Dream. (Very Pleasing: Ballad.)
My Heart Calls, My Love, Come Back, Be True.
know, the instrument is brought to the front of the
The Man That Catches Me Must Have the Good
platform where all may have a good sight of it and
Hard Cash. (Now All the Rage.)
they receive a lesson which they never forget about
Our catalog: Is coming: to the front from all points
the different kinds of musical instruments.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
LEARN LIKE GR0WN=UPS
of U. S. A. Write for our special trade rates.
J. S. UNGER MUSIC HOUSE, Music Pub.
Reading, Pa.
REMICK SONG HITS
Hello, Blue Bird
Blame It on the Waltz
Baby Face
Breezing Along with the Breeze
For My Sweetheart
I'm Looking Over a Four-leaf Clover
All I Want Is You
Moonbeam, Kiss Her for Me
I've Got to Get Myself Somebody to Love
I Need Lovin'
If I'd Only Believe in You
Here Comes Fatima
Gone Again, Gal
What Could I Do
Bye, Bye, Black Bird
April 23, 1927.
LOS ANGELES PROMOTES MUSIC
Incidentally Department of Playground and Recrea-
tion Encourages Sales of Musical Instruments.
The promotion of better citizenship and the stim-
ulation of high ideals among children and adults
through music activities have become one of the im-
portant phases in the work of the Department of
Playground and Recreation of Los Angeles.
Within a comparatively brief time, thirty-two types
of music activities have been organized at the public
playgrounds and recreation centers, and the present
objective is the increase to a total of ninety-eight by
the end of the year. These activities include orches-
tras, bands, harmonica bands, choruses, ukulele
clubs, community sings and special programs.
For the purpose of making music one of the highest
forms of recreation adaptable to municipal play cen-
ters, the Los Angeles Playground and Recreation
Commission recently appointed Glenn M. Tindall as
supervisor of music activities. He is the director
and sponsor of music development at the twenty-three
major playgrounds of the city and, also, the adviser
of many special groups of amateur musicians. The
appointment was based upon his previous experi-
ences in St. Louis, New York City and elsewhere
as musical instructor in public schools, as developer
of state music-training programs for schools, as a
well-known music organizer among the foreign-born
population, and for his executive ability. In Los
Angeles Mr. Tindall has been an organist and choir
leader.
The primary aim in department music activities is
to develop self-expression through music, either by
means of low-type instruments, such as harmonicas,
ukuleles, drum corps, or with high-type instruments,
involving orchestras, bands and singing groups.
Secondary is the inspirational motif for the passive
participant, the appreciative listener.
S H E E T MUSIC W I N D O W SALES.
Ed. Little, head of the sheet music department of
The Kimball Music Store's quarters in Kenosha, Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, is a firm be-
Wis. have been remodeled and enlarged so as to liever in the efficacy of window displays of sheet
make more room for the exclusive sales and display music. Mr. Little says that a new publication can
of the Kimball piano. The store is located in the be made a "best" seller" in a few days by the win-
Virginia building, and is one of the most progressive dow display process.. He has often proved it, too,
stores in the city. Joseph Cardinal, proprietor, be- with the company's own songs. And other sheet
sides being exclusive dealer for the Kimball piano in music department managers are ready to verify Mr.
Little's statement that effective displays of sheet
Kenosha also has one of the largest stocks of piano
music in show windows are powerful helps to quick
rolls in the city.
sales.
KENOSHA STORE REMODELED.
CONN IN KANSAS CITY.
The saxophone continues to be the strong seller
with the Conn Kansas City Co., Kansas City, Mo.,
according to Foster Streep, manager. The business
in brass instruments is in equal ratio to the increase
in school bands throughout the section served by the
company. The anticipations for this phase of the
business are excellent and based on the spread of the
band promotion spirit all through the southwest.
REMICK ARTIST RETURNS.
Monte Austin has again joined the Rcmiek force
at Portland, Ore., as song plugger. Last year Monte
resigned from the Remick force to become the Port-
land representative of Feist. He also came into the
limelight recently by recording with the Cole Mc-
Elroy Spanish ballroom orchestra the record "Co-ed,"
Monte singing the vocal chorus.
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
FOR TRUE ECONOMY BUY
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always
STYLE 25
Send for catalog and price list
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, III.
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/