Variety (December 1920)

32 VARIETY Friday, December 31, 1920 moon trip and Miss Lp Vay is con tinuing with the S-B house. Grant Clarke, last with the Irving Berlin house, will write exclusively for Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. He will team with Jimmie V. Monaco, an old writing partner from the days when they were with Leo Feist years ago. Lee S. Roberts an executive of the Q. R. 8. Music Roll Co., is re- turning to active music publishing once more with a catalog of four numbers written a part by hlm- p^If, G. F^hJrmcr, Inc., is the sr 1 .!- in ; agent. Roberts for a time was a publisher In* Chicago and then ■igned a con'ract to write exclu- sively for Schlrmcr on terms con- ceded by the profession to be very favorable for a ■onA>rltor. This con'-. •! has expired and Roberta will now wt'te and publish songs for himself. The Charles K. Harris Produc- tions, Inc., a picture company head- ed by the music publisher, starts a* the Essanay studios In Chicago next month on a feature. "A Wom- an Without a Heart," written by Mr. Harris and Adeline Leltzbach. Associated with the music publisher in the venture Is Joe Harris, gen- eral manager of the Essanay. who will also act as general manager of the Harris corporation. Jimmy Brown, professional man- ager of Will Rossiter's New York office, has severed connections with the house to associate himself with Tom Brown (Six Brown Brothers) In the business management of Brown's acts. The Rosslter house gave up Its local branch Saturday. Phil Moore. Eastern sale* manager for the Arm. will represent It sole- ly In New York. The New York professional staff will make con- nections elsewhere. Tom Brown, who owns the lease of the building on West 46th street, last occupied by Rosslter, will utilize the prem- ises for his own enterprises. To combat the sheet music slump at present prevalent in the indus- try, several of the publishers are .pinning considerable faith in tliclr "standard" numbers, songs that were "popular" at one time, but have proven moderately consistent sellers for many years. Several of the firms realising the Talus sf such standard satalsg are beginning to build It ■» by accepting better grade ballads, not so much for their immediate popular appeal, but for the fact they can be developed Into standard numbers. A resolution has been adopted by the M. P. P. A. at Us recent i eet- lng to limit the Jobbers* credit to 60 days when a cash settlement will be insisted upon. Heretofore the Job- bers remitted In notes on * iS con- tention their outstanding accounts had limited their exchequer fund to the extent a cash payment would embarrass them financially, though only temporarily. The publisher obligingly countenanced this prac- tice and the Plaza and Enterprise muddles speak for themselves as to the continued Impracticability ©.' such negotiations. On an averag*- sach of ths bigger publishers have some 626.600 thus tied up between the two jobbing houses, the Plaza having gone' Into bankrupicy and the Enterprise funds being in abey- ance pending the settlement of the A. H. Ooettlng estate. MERR Y—HAPP Y—FROM JOE PEARL LANE AND HARPER NOW TOURING ORPHEUM CIRCUIT in "The Man and the Man-i-cure" NEXT SEASON Presenting an Entirely New Vehicle by Jack Lait "CO-RESPONDENCE" Personal Direction: RALPH G. FARNUM of Ed. S. Keller Office HAPPY NEW YEAR EVANGELINE Murray Girls KATHLEEN Now Playing ORPHEUM CIRCUIT Direction, FRANK EVANS An odd angle of music selling tha lately arose in connection with a 10-cent store chain is accepted by the publishers as an admission ths 10-centers have been so far re- moved from music at their prices of past months that to resume where the 10-center«s Strft off would to im- possible. Instead, the publishers say. the 10-cent stores, if making music a feature, as formerly, will have to start, all over again. The circumstances came about through a publisher in New York, knowing he had a popular hit. de- ciding to place it in the 10-cent class on the prospect of placing a couple of dead ones with it and have the three numbers plugged. Accordingly he arranged with the buyer for the 10-cent chain who Is conceded to know his business. The song Was placed on sale lut with no demand, while what demand thrre was came from the music stores that are handling only production price stuff. The 10-centers falling to show sufficient sales to warrant leaving the song there to die, the publisher withdrew It. but could not then place it with the music stores, as they refused to handle it at any price after the 10-centpr9 had had it. That leaves the publisher with a commercial hit on his hands but without the necessary circulating mediums to dispose of it. Were the title mentioned everyone would readily recognize the song and be all the more surprised. The lapse of the lO-cente.'s dur- ing the hard spell of 6 $4-cent must* entirely weaned away its music- buying trade. Publishers say th*- public no longer think of patroniz- ing the 10-centers for music. In view of all the conditions it is also surprising that publishers do not consider the advisability of placing a 10-cent or 25-cent sheet of music on the market any kind of a cut to attract attention to a reduc- tion. There are arguments both ways on it. Holiday Cheer to All from. GREETINGS FROM ■ RUE ELEANOR BALL AND BALL NOW TOURING ORPHEUM CIRCUIT CONNELLY Erwin AND Jane Will Present a New Comedy Under the Personal Direction of MR. SIDNEY WILLIAMS at B. F. Keith's Riverside Theatre Week Jan. 10 Direction, TOM FITZPATR1CK GREETINGS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND COMPANY Picscnting—"REINCARNATION"—A Dance Drama HEADLINING on fttie LOEW CIRCUIT ■ Direction HORWITZ & KRAUS tss CARL NIESSE EXTENDS GREETINGS TO ALL GEORGE YEOMAN and "LIZZIE" (My Sponsor) I II ■■!■■ I I - (INDIANAPOLIS) A U T H O ■ ■ ' ■ \ (1ND1ANAPOU3J WARD A DOOLEY Al. JOIJ40N WALTER KTANTON CH IC gAL E KATHERTNE collina it nryuiBBONA ■ AM, NELSON JOHN P. 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