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...with a superiority complex. We decided that such rare talents deserve something besides loyal recognition. So we became music publishers and opened a shop in Harvard Square in a building where the rentals were low. We called the new firm "Sherry and Powers" and confidently expected we would put Witmark and New York's Tin-pan Alley out of business. The Sherry stood for Sherwood and the Powers was my middle name. Sherwood had one battered roll-top desk and I had the piano. To give the office a proper professional atmosphere, we evolved imitation montages of celebrity photographs...
Died. Jay Witmark, 77, co-founder with older brothers Isidore and Julius of the Manhattan music publishing firm M. Witmark & Sons; in Manhattan. The three boys, 11 to 14, began printing business cards in 1883 with a toy press that Jay had won in school as a mathematics prize, published their first song in 1886. By 1928, when they sold out to Warner Brothers, they had published 24 Victor Herbert operettas, such raging hits as My Wild Irish Rose and Sweet Adeline...
...Used by special permission of copyright owners M. Witmark & Sons...
...playing again with Lewis at the Hurricane. *Copyright 1918 by M. Witmark and Sons: used by permission...
...Used by permission of M. Witmark & Sons, Copyright...