The talking machine world (July-Sept 1921)

130 (World of Music) THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD August 15, 1921 Charley Straight and Roy Bargy have Written an Unusually Attractive Fox Trot Ballad IT MUST BE SOMEONE LIKE YOU Starting Splendidly! Chicago McKINLEY MUSIC CO.newyork TO FIGHT COPYRIGHT BILL Publisher* and Wriicis' Organisations to Oppose Proposed Amendment to Copyright Law Recently Introduced in Congress The Mimic Publisher*' Protective Association and tlic Composers' and I.yrii Writers' \*mh-i.i lion and tlie American Society of Author*, Composer* and Publishers have Formulated a campaign lo combat the new copyright aiucnilmrnt recently introduced in Congress hy Senator Lamport. Nathan Burkon, J. C. Rosenthal mid E. C Mills, of the above organisations, contemplate leaving for Washington, I). C, to confer w.th the Cominitlcc on Polenta and conviuci il ol the inequity of the new amendment, which provides that any purchaser of a printed oi published copyrighted work can perform it for profit. While the Committee on Patents will not reach amendment for formal consideration before the Pall, of sending rcpr forestall any po .i ii ndirienl « lection to a copy It is undcratoo Hun picture in lax to the Ann Authors and Pub Hie jclclics feel the necessity itlvci t<i Washington in serious consideration of Obviously alTordu no pro i the bill is sponsored by s who object to paj ing Society of Composers, * inr tin public perform IRVING BERLIN, INC., TO MOVE Irving Berlin, Inc., has leased practically the entire third Moor of Churchill's, Forty-ninth in August. It will be ofticcs and studios in II The present offices of have been crowded an company has found il tioiial space for some NEW HOME FOR BROADWAY CORP. The Broadway Music Corp. has leased the fifth, sixth and seventh floors of the new Robertson-Cole Building, Forty-eighth street and Seventh avenue, for a term of five years. The lease of the present Broadway quarters, at 145 West Forty-fiflh street, does not expire until December, but the company is arranging to occupy the new home early next month. NEW SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. SONGS "FANCIES" PROVES PROMISING Sam i & Co. "Smiln • il "II. [Uil 1 Sherman, i las cc two new fox-Irot B. They ate entitled Forgotten?" eath the Jack Kohbins, general inanugi-i ol M.n Richmond, Inc., \» spending his six weeks' vnca tion in Atlantic City, N. J, Incidentally, he is pulling on a campaign of publicity in favor of the firm's wall/. "Mello 'Cello." "Kan> and H "Under former success, At number has been rec M. Witmark & Son ting their entire sales Flela Jan Brown s of the famous fair to rival iheir "MOON RIVER" DOING WELL Lee David, who writes exclusively for B. D. Nice & Co., Inc., is the composer of a new song enlitled "Moon River." Il is a waltz number and has received a favorable reception with a number of orchestras which have given it a try-out. tin publicity forces bcr and one of ihc most thorough ring every publicity channel has FEATURING "DANGEROUS BLUES" The J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Kansas Cily, Mo., which has numerous branches in the Middle West, is carrying out a very elaborate campaign on the firm's novelty number, "Dangerous Blues." ALL RECORD AND ROLL COMPANIES WARNING!!! You are hereby notified that the American Public will commence action against you unless immediate release is made of I Ain't Nobody's Darling The Overnight Surprise— A "Natural" Hit SKIDMORE MUSIC CO., Inc., Publishers Gaiety Theatre Building, 1547 Broadway, New York SHAPIRO, BERNSTEIN & CO., Inc., Selling Aflenls Corner Broadway and 47th Slreet, New York