Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1919)

New Method Makes Music Amazingly Easy to Learn Learn to Play or Sing in Spare Time at Home — Every Step Made Simple as A B C by Print-and Picture Lessons That You Can't Go Wrong On. TRY IT ON APPROVAL. Entire Cost Only a Few Cents a Lesson — and Nothing Whatever to Pay Unless You Are Satisfied. How often have you wished that you knew how to play the violin or piano — or whatever your favorite instrument may be— or that you could take part in singing? How many an evening's pleasure has been utterly spoiled and ruined by the admission "I can't sing," or "No, I am sorry, but I can't play." At all social gatherings, some one is sooner or later sure to suggest music. When the others gather around for the fun, the one who can take no part feels hopelessly out of it — a wall flower — a mere listener and looker on ! Or those long and lonesome evenings at home, when minutes seem like hours — how quickly the time would pass if you could spend it at the piano or organ — or in making a violin "talk," or in enjoying some other instrument. And now — at last — this pleasure and satisfaction that you have so often wished for can easily be added to your daily life. No need to join a class or pin yourself down to certain hours for lessons or practice. No need to pay a dollar or more per lesson to a private teacher. Neither the question of time nor expense is any longer a bar — every one of the obstacles that have been confining your enjoyment to mere listening have now been removed. My method of teaching music by mail — in your spare time at home, with no strangers around to embarrass you — makes it amazingly easy to learn to sing by note or to play any instrument. You don't need to know the first thing about music to begin — don't need to know one note from another. My method takes out all the hard part— overcomes all the difficulties— makes your progress easy, rapid and sure. Whether for an advanced pupil or a beginner, my method is a revolutionary improvement over the old methods used by private teachers. The lessons I send you explain every point and show every step in simple Print-and-Picture form that you can't go wrong on — every step is made as clear as A B C. My method makes each step so easy to understand and practice that even children only 7 to 10 years old have quickly become accomplished players or singers under my direction by mail. Also thousands of men and women 50 to 70 years old — including many who had never before tried to play any instrument or taken a lesson of any kind — have found my method equally easy. My method is as thorough as it is easy. I teach you the only right way — teach Learn to Play by Note For Beginners or Advanced Pupils Piano, Harmony and Organ, Composition, Violin, Sight Singing, Viola, Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, Tenor Banjo Hawaiian Steel Mandolin, Guitar, Clarinet, Harp, Flute, Cornet, Saxophone, Piccolo, Cello, Trombone. you to play or sing by note. No "trick" music, no " numbers, " no makeshifts of any kind. I call my method "new" — simply because it is so radically different from the old and hard to understand ways of teaching music. But my method is thoroughly time tried and proven. Over 225,000 successful pupils— in all parts of the world, and including all ages from boys and girls of 7 to 8 to men and women of 70 — are the proof. Read the enthusiastic letters from some of them, which you will find printed at the right — samples of the kind of letters I am receiving in practically every mail. My file contains thousands of such letters. Largely through the recommendations of satisfied pupils, I have built up the largest school of music in the world. But I don't ask you to judge my methods by what others say or by what I myself say. You can take any course on trial — singing or any instrument you prefer — and judge entirely by your own progress. If for any reason you are not satisfied with the course or with what you learn from it, then it won't cost you a single penny. I guarantee satisfaction. On the other hand, if you are pleased with the course, the total cost amounts to only a few cents a lesson, with your music and everything also included. When learning to play or sing is so easy, why continue to confine your enjoyment of music to mere listening? Why nob at least let me send you my free book that tell6 you all about my methods? I know you will find this book absorbingly interesting, simply because it shows you how easy it is to turn your wish to play or sing into an actual fact. Just now I am making a special short-time offer that cuts the cost per lesson in two — send your name now, before this special offer is withdrawn. No obligation — y simply use the coupon or send your name / «. ^ / Mr. Davi. SUCCESS "Since I've been taking your lessons I've made over $60 with my violin. Your lessons surely are fine." — Melvin Freeland, Macopin, N.J. "When I started with you I knew nothing about the Cornet or music, but now I can play almost any piece of music." — Kasson Swan, Denmark, Col. Co., Nova Scotia. "I want to extend the heartiest approval of your Piano Course. It has done more for me than years of other lessons." — Moxie N. Lewis, 319 Jefferson, Neosha, Mo. "The folks at home are delighted to hear me play the Organ so well. You have a wonderful system of teaching music." — M. F. Allard, Caraquet, N. B. and address in a letter or on a postcard Instruments supplied when needed, cash or credit. U. S. SCHOOL OF MUSIC 324 Brunswick Building New York : rid / / / / / / Address F. Kemp, y President U. S. ' School of Music, / 324 Brunswick Bldg., / New York City. / Please send me your free / book, "Music Lessons in Your / Own Home" and particulars of >• your Special Offer. Name. City. .State.