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PRESTO-TIMES
May 14, 1927.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
the winner is $1,500, provided by the Infantry Jour-
nal, official publication of the United States Infantry
Association of Washington, D. C.
The Waukegan Township High School Band,
Also List of States Where Movements to Create the
Waukegan, 111., is now proud of an outfit of instru-
Law Are Active.
ments made by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
The following states have band tax provisions, ac-
Jack Smith, "The Whispering Baritone" of Victor
cording to facts compiled by Musical Truth, the pub- record fame, is now singing "Carolina," the new song
lication of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.:
hit of the J. I. Unger Music House, Reading, Pa.
California, 15c on $100 value; Idaho, 2 mills; Illi-
Japan now ranks second as a purchaser of Ameri-
nois, 2 mills; Iowa, 2 mills; Kansas, ^ mill; Mary-
can sheet music, according to statistics. It is sec-
land, 2 mills; Michigan, 2 mills; Montana, 1 mill;
ond only to Canada.
New Mexico, 1 mill; North Dakota, 2 mills; Ne-
The Vitak-Elsnic Co., 4639 South Ashland ave-
braska, 2 mills; South Dakota, 1 mill; Texas, 3 mills;
nue, Chicago, has issued a new catalog describing its
West Virginia, y 2 mill.
line of "Pearl Queen" concertinas.
States having permissive legislation under which
band organizations or maintenance may be carried
on are: Indiana, $1,200 per year (except LaPorte—-
$1,800); Massachusetts, $500; Minnesota, $500; Mis-
sissippi, $1,200; New Hampshire, $800; Pennsylva-
nia, $500.
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Musk
States having band tax law movements: Minnesota,
Department Are Printed.
passed senate March 1, 1927; Wisconsin, to vote soon;
A concert devoted to the works of American com-
Missouri, to vote soon; Maine, movement on; Nevada,
posers will be a feature of the annual convention of
movement on; Washington, movement on; Utah,
the California Federation of Music Clubs to meet
movement on.
this month at Santa Rosa.
The law which has been most popular and makes
Monte Austin, the Remick song demonstrator, is
most adequate provisions is that applying in the first
doing good work at featuring Remick songs at the
group. Major George W. Landers, Clarinda, Iowa, is
given credit for being the father of this law, and has Portland, Ore., headquarters of Jerome H. Remick
& Co.
had a hand in its being adopted in a number of states.
Carl Fischer, Inc., has issued the first of its new
Briefly and in general, the law provides that a tax
type of monthly publications which is in the nature
not to exceed 2 mills be levied each year by munici-
of a catalog.
palities for the maintenance or employment of a
Edwin Hoff, 2815 Dexter avenue, Denver, Colo.,
band for municipal purposes. Authority to levy such
a tax shall be initiated by a petition signed by 5 to 10 has been appointed Colorado representative for the
standard publications of W. A. Quincke & Co., 43
per cent of the legal voters and the question voted
South Broadway, Los Angeles.
on at the following general or municipal election.
The Dickson Book & Music Store, operated by J.
When carried by a majority vote, the levy shall be
Moore Dickson and wife at Clarksville, Tenn., carries
deemed authorized. Repeal of the law is provided
a line of sheet music and teachers' supplies.
through the same procedure.
Among sheet music publishers exhibiting at the
convention of the Federation of Music Clubs in Chi-
cago last week were: M. Witmark & Son, Gamble
Hinger Music Co., Oliver Ditson, Carl Fischer, Fitz-
simmon Music Co. and Pallma Music Publishers.
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
The Music Publishers' Protective Association and
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers now occupy the twenty-fifth floor of the
A string orchestra of thirty musicians playing
Paramount Building, Broadway and Forty-third
mandolins, banjos and guitars has been organized at
street, New York.
the Oakwood School, Oakwood, Wis., by Vesey
The Pallma Music Publishers, Inc., Chicago, re-
Walker, manager of the band and orchestra instru-
ment department of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co., cently moved its offices to the Lyon & Healy build-
ing.
Milwaukee.
Irving King, a young English composer of popular
The Mouth Organ League of Great Britain recently
songs, is now visiting this country. His greatest
held a playing competition in London at which there
success was "Show Me the Way to Go Home."
were 152 competitors from all parts of England.
The Association of Music Men, composed of sales-
Work is being done on the remodeling of the
men and other employes of Standard music publish-
Charles E. Roat Music Company store, Battle Creek,
ing houses in New York, will hold its annual outing
Mich. The phonograph department is being redec-
June 25 at Elk Lodge, Staten Island, N. J.
orated in shades of buff and brown and the floor will
be carpeted.
The study of music has been made compulsory in
SUMMER RADIO F E A T U R E S .
the schools of Aledo, 111.
Feature programs are to continue throughout the
H. H. Leiser, formerly a soloist in the Holton Band,
heated term, according to the National Broadcasting
Elkhorn, Wis., has been appointed band organizer
Company and individual stations who are meeting
foh the Knight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo. with wonderful success in their aims to maintain and
A summer school for band and orchestra directors
raise the standards of broadcasting is generally rec-
and public school supervisors will be opened July 5
ognized. There will be no revolutionary "slack
by the Conn National School of Music, Chicago, and
down" in radio programs, May, June, July and
continue for six weeks.
August; rather the opposite, as a number of national
The Selmer-Conn Co., Inc., New York, will open
features will be introduced.
a branch at 45 Bradford place, Newark, N. J., on
May 10.
RACINE P H O N O G R A P H F A I L U R E .
The Knight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo.,
has doubled the space heretofore alloted to its music
Three creditors of the Blandin Phonograph Com-
roll department. Agnes Ryan is manager of the
pany of Racine, Wis., have started involuntary bank-
department.
ruptcy proceedings against that company in Federal
T. M. Pletcher, president of the Q R S Music Co.,
court at Milwaukee. The creditors and the amount
is at present visiting the Q R S factory in Holland.
said to be owed them are as follows: The Chicago
A contest for a prize song for the infantry of the Veneer Company, $601.56; J. H. Mortzik Company,
$422.69; and the J. C. Deacon Company, $222.08.
United States army closes July 1. The reward for
STATES' BAND TAX LAW
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
VERY LATEST RELEASES
All I Want Is You—Fox Trot.
Along Miami Shore—Waltz.
A Lane in Spain—Fox Trot.
Collette—Fox Trot.
Carolina Mine—Waltz.
Forgive Me—Fox Trot.
He's the Last Word—Fox Trot.
Hoosier Sweetheart—Fox Trot.
If I Didn't Know Your Husband
and You Didn't Know My Wife—
Fox Trot.
1753 I'll Just Go Along—Fox Trot.
1758 I Know That You Know — Fox
Trot.
1763 I've Never Seen a Straight Banana
—Fox Trot.
1768 Lonely Nights in Hawaii—Marim-
ba Waltz.
1761 Moonbeam! Kiss Her for Me—Ma-
rimba Fox Trot.
1774 My Sunday Girl—Fox Trot.
1765 Oh, Margie—Fox Trot.
1764 Rock Me to Sleep in An Old Rock-
ing Chair—Waltz.
1757 Say It (With a Pretty Little Love
Song)—Fox Trot.
1760 Somebody Said (What Do I Care
What)—Fox Trot.
1749 The Cat—Fox Trot.
1767 There's Everything Nice About
You—Fox Trot.
1756 You-Hoo, Sweet Lady (It's You)
—Fox Trot.
1762 Yankee Rose—Fox Trot.
1751
1752
1769
1775
1766
1750
1759
1770
1772
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Gapitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedne Are., CHICAGO, ILL
(Formerly Columbia Music R*ll Co.)
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Carolina
* *
/Orders Received in Five, Two and One Hundred)
(Lots. J. S. Unger, Publisher, Reading, Pa.j
NEW SONG HIT
AMJSIC PRINTERS
ENGRAVERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS
PRINT ANYTHING IN MUSIC
BY ANY PROCESS
SEND FOR QUOTATION AND SAMPLES
NO ORDER TOO SMALL TO RECEIVE ATTENTION
THE LARGEST EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PRINTER V E S T OF NEW YORK AND
THE LARGEST ENGRAVING DEPARTMENT I N THE UNITED STATES.
ESTABLISHED 1876
THE OTTO
CINCINNATI,
REFERENCE ANY PUBLISHER
ZIMMERMAN
SON CO.jNC.
OHIO.
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PRESTO-TIMES
May 14, 1927.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
the winner is $1,500, provided by the Infantry Jour-
nal, official publication of the United States Infantry
Association of Washington, D. C.
The Waukegan Township High School Band,
Also List of States Where Movements to Create the
Waukegan, 111., is now proud of an outfit of instru-
Law Are Active.
ments made by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
The following states have band tax provisions, ac-
Jack Smith, "The Whispering Baritone" of Victor
cording to facts compiled by Musical Truth, the pub- record fame, is now singing "Carolina," the new song
lication of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.:
hit of the J. I. Unger Music House, Reading, Pa.
California, 15c on $100 value; Idaho, 2 mills; Illi-
Japan now ranks second as a purchaser of Ameri-
nois, 2 mills; Iowa, 2 mills; Kansas, ^ mill; Mary-
can sheet music, according to statistics. It is sec-
land, 2 mills; Michigan, 2 mills; Montana, 1 mill;
ond only to Canada.
New Mexico, 1 mill; North Dakota, 2 mills; Ne-
The Vitak-Elsnic Co., 4639 South Ashland ave-
braska, 2 mills; South Dakota, 1 mill; Texas, 3 mills;
nue, Chicago, has issued a new catalog describing its
West Virginia, y 2 mill.
line of "Pearl Queen" concertinas.
States having permissive legislation under which
band organizations or maintenance may be carried
on are: Indiana, $1,200 per year (except LaPorte—-
$1,800); Massachusetts, $500; Minnesota, $500; Mis-
sissippi, $1,200; New Hampshire, $800; Pennsylva-
nia, $500.
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Musk
States having band tax law movements: Minnesota,
Department Are Printed.
passed senate March 1, 1927; Wisconsin, to vote soon;
A concert devoted to the works of American com-
Missouri, to vote soon; Maine, movement on; Nevada,
posers will be a feature of the annual convention of
movement on; Washington, movement on; Utah,
the California Federation of Music Clubs to meet
movement on.
this month at Santa Rosa.
The law which has been most popular and makes
Monte Austin, the Remick song demonstrator, is
most adequate provisions is that applying in the first
doing good work at featuring Remick songs at the
group. Major George W. Landers, Clarinda, Iowa, is
given credit for being the father of this law, and has Portland, Ore., headquarters of Jerome H. Remick
& Co.
had a hand in its being adopted in a number of states.
Carl Fischer, Inc., has issued the first of its new
Briefly and in general, the law provides that a tax
type of monthly publications which is in the nature
not to exceed 2 mills be levied each year by munici-
of a catalog.
palities for the maintenance or employment of a
Edwin Hoff, 2815 Dexter avenue, Denver, Colo.,
band for municipal purposes. Authority to levy such
a tax shall be initiated by a petition signed by 5 to 10 has been appointed Colorado representative for the
standard publications of W. A. Quincke & Co., 43
per cent of the legal voters and the question voted
South Broadway, Los Angeles.
on at the following general or municipal election.
The Dickson Book & Music Store, operated by J.
When carried by a majority vote, the levy shall be
Moore Dickson and wife at Clarksville, Tenn., carries
deemed authorized. Repeal of the law is provided
a line of sheet music and teachers' supplies.
through the same procedure.
Among sheet music publishers exhibiting at the
convention of the Federation of Music Clubs in Chi-
cago last week were: M. Witmark & Son, Gamble
Hinger Music Co., Oliver Ditson, Carl Fischer, Fitz-
simmon Music Co. and Pallma Music Publishers.
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
The Music Publishers' Protective Association and
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers now occupy the twenty-fifth floor of the
A string orchestra of thirty musicians playing
Paramount Building, Broadway and Forty-third
mandolins, banjos and guitars has been organized at
street, New York.
the Oakwood School, Oakwood, Wis., by Vesey
The Pallma Music Publishers, Inc., Chicago, re-
Walker, manager of the band and orchestra instru-
ment department of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co., cently moved its offices to the Lyon & Healy build-
ing.
Milwaukee.
Irving King, a young English composer of popular
The Mouth Organ League of Great Britain recently
songs, is now visiting this country. His greatest
held a playing competition in London at which there
success was "Show Me the Way to Go Home."
were 152 competitors from all parts of England.
The Association of Music Men, composed of sales-
Work is being done on the remodeling of the
men and other employes of Standard music publish-
Charles E. Roat Music Company store, Battle Creek,
ing houses in New York, will hold its annual outing
Mich. The phonograph department is being redec-
June 25 at Elk Lodge, Staten Island, N. J.
orated in shades of buff and brown and the floor will
be carpeted.
The study of music has been made compulsory in
SUMMER RADIO F E A T U R E S .
the schools of Aledo, 111.
Feature programs are to continue throughout the
H. H. Leiser, formerly a soloist in the Holton Band,
heated term, according to the National Broadcasting
Elkhorn, Wis., has been appointed band organizer
Company and individual stations who are meeting
foh the Knight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo. with wonderful success in their aims to maintain and
A summer school for band and orchestra directors
raise the standards of broadcasting is generally rec-
and public school supervisors will be opened July 5
ognized. There will be no revolutionary "slack
by the Conn National School of Music, Chicago, and
down" in radio programs, May, June, July and
continue for six weeks.
August; rather the opposite, as a number of national
The Selmer-Conn Co., Inc., New York, will open
features will be introduced.
a branch at 45 Bradford place, Newark, N. J., on
May 10.
RACINE P H O N O G R A P H F A I L U R E .
The Knight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo.,
has doubled the space heretofore alloted to its music
Three creditors of the Blandin Phonograph Com-
roll department. Agnes Ryan is manager of the
pany of Racine, Wis., have started involuntary bank-
department.
ruptcy proceedings against that company in Federal
T. M. Pletcher, president of the Q R S Music Co.,
court at Milwaukee. The creditors and the amount
is at present visiting the Q R S factory in Holland.
said to be owed them are as follows: The Chicago
A contest for a prize song for the infantry of the Veneer Company, $601.56; J. H. Mortzik Company,
$422.69; and the J. C. Deacon Company, $222.08.
United States army closes July 1. The reward for
STATES' BAND TAX LAW
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
VERY LATEST RELEASES
All I Want Is You—Fox Trot.
Along Miami Shore—Waltz.
A Lane in Spain—Fox Trot.
Collette—Fox Trot.
Carolina Mine—Waltz.
Forgive Me—Fox Trot.
He's the Last Word—Fox Trot.
Hoosier Sweetheart—Fox Trot.
If I Didn't Know Your Husband
and You Didn't Know My Wife—
Fox Trot.
1753 I'll Just Go Along—Fox Trot.
1758 I Know That You Know — Fox
Trot.
1763 I've Never Seen a Straight Banana
—Fox Trot.
1768 Lonely Nights in Hawaii—Marim-
ba Waltz.
1761 Moonbeam! Kiss Her for Me—Ma-
rimba Fox Trot.
1774 My Sunday Girl—Fox Trot.
1765 Oh, Margie—Fox Trot.
1764 Rock Me to Sleep in An Old Rock-
ing Chair—Waltz.
1757 Say It (With a Pretty Little Love
Song)—Fox Trot.
1760 Somebody Said (What Do I Care
What)—Fox Trot.
1749 The Cat—Fox Trot.
1767 There's Everything Nice About
You—Fox Trot.
1756 You-Hoo, Sweet Lady (It's You)
—Fox Trot.
1762 Yankee Rose—Fox Trot.
1751
1752
1769
1775
1766
1750
1759
1770
1772
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Gapitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedne Are., CHICAGO, ILL
(Formerly Columbia Music R*ll Co.)
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Carolina
* *
/Orders Received in Five, Two and One Hundred)
(Lots. J. S. Unger, Publisher, Reading, Pa.j
NEW SONG HIT
AMJSIC PRINTERS
ENGRAVERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS
PRINT ANYTHING IN MUSIC
BY ANY PROCESS
SEND FOR QUOTATION AND SAMPLES
NO ORDER TOO SMALL TO RECEIVE ATTENTION
THE LARGEST EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PRINTER V E S T OF NEW YORK AND
THE LARGEST ENGRAVING DEPARTMENT I N THE UNITED STATES.
ESTABLISHED 1876
THE OTTO
CINCINNATI,
REFERENCE ANY PUBLISHER
ZIMMERMAN
SON CO.jNC.
OHIO.
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).