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Robbins-Engel, Inc. published arrangements for the silent cinema from 1920 to 1927. From 1927 to 1935 it was known as Robbins Music Corp.

Partners
Robbins Music Corporation was established in January 1, 1922, in New York by Russian-born Maurice Richmond (Maurice Aaron Richmond; 1879–1965) and Boston-born Jack Robbins (né John Jacob Robbins; 1894–1959). Richmond had purchased the F.A. Mills catalog in 1915 and managed it with his nephew. On May 19, 1923, Harry Engel acquired a third interest in Richmond-Robbins, Inc. In 1935, Robbins sold the catalog to MGM.

Richmond-Robbins personnel in 1923
Members of the Richmond-Robbins Organization. Upper row, Left to right: Hugo Frey (1873–1952), composer; Domenico Savino (1882–1973), composer; Ernö Rapée (1891–1945), conductor of orchestra at Capitol Theatre and composer; Robert Hood Bowers (1877–1941), Musical Director, Columbia Graphophone Company and composer; Walter Hirsch (1891–1967), lyricist. Front row: William Axt (1888–1959), Assistant Conductor, Capitol Theatre Orchestra and composer; Harry Engel, general manager, Richmond-Robbins, Inc.; Richmond-Robbins Mascot, and Jack Robbins, head of house

Berlin distributor
Direct quote from Kater's book
 * To Hans Brückner's (de) (1891–1941) further dismay, his purges were hampered by what he perceived to be networks of international Jewish publishers who imported undesirable sheet music to the Reich via hidden channels from abroad. Viktor Alberti, for instance, who had owned the miraculous Alberti music store on Berlin's Rankenstrasse (de), a treasure source for every jazz buff, after his post-January 1933 emigration to Budapest had left the management of his shop to a relative, Nikolaus Weiss. According the Brückner, Weiss was receiving Jewish imports from Alberti in Hungary, after "Aryanization," were said to be smuggling in Jewish contraband from new headquarters in Vienna, until the Anschluss in March 1938 put a stop to this. Before that date, Austria was supposed to have had merely three non-Jewish music publishers! In particular, Irving Berlin's tunes were suspected of being marketed in Germany by the Viennese Bristol Publishers of Felix Ehrenfreund. But New York Broadway producers such as Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. and similar Jewish firms in London were also charged with infesting the German Market. Therefore, when when "alien" music was officially proscribed in late December 1937, this order was loudly hailed by the Jew hunters, whose xenophobia was fueled by anti-Semitism.


 * Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany, by Michael Hans Kater, Oxford University Press (1992; paperback 2003), p. 43


 * Unterhaltungsmusik, February 10, 1938, p. 155

Addresses

 * Robbins-Engel 1658 Broadway
 * Robbins Music Corp. 799 7th Ave
 * J J Robbins, Inc., 15 CPW

Selected publication

 * My Spirituals, for solo voice and piano
 * By Eva Alberta Jessye (1895–1992)
 * B&W woodcut illustrations by Millar of the Roland Company


 * The Roland Company of Advertising Art, Inc.


 * Edited by Gordon Whyte and Hugo Frey (1873–1952)
 * 1st ed., quarto; 81 pages (© 11 April 1927; A967776)
 * 81 pages

 "The Singer"  "Who Is Dat Yondah?"  "Spirit O' the Lord Done Fell on Me"  "An' I Cry"  "Bles' My Soul an' Gone"  "I Been 'Buked an' I Been Scorned"  "Stan' Steady"  "Ain't Got Long to Stay Heah"  "March Down to Jerdon"  "John Saw DE Holy Numbah"  "I'm a Po' LI'l Orphan"  "When Moses Smote de Water"  "So I Can Write My Name"  "I Can't Stay Away"  "Tall Angel at the Bar"  "Got a Home at Las" <li> "I'se Mighty Tired"</ol></ol>


 * Chocolate Kiddies


 * Publisher Jack Robbins purchased the rights to the score, but only brought out three tunes: "Jig Walk," "Jim Dandy," and "With You." They appeared in 1925, but whether before or after the European tour is not known to this writer.

The Roland Company

 * Jay Roland


 * Records & Briefs – New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, Vol. 216, Library of the New York Law Institute, "Estate of Leonard Roland, Deceased," October 23, 1962, p. 293