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A song will live in proportion to the programs Paul Ruben's "Kunnin Kaffirs"
amount of undying sentiment it contains. two-step.
Jacques Lyons is in the extreme Northwest
"There'll Be One Vacant Chair" and "Then
You'll Remember Me" are still favorites, and is effectively using Roden and Witt's
while "In the Gloaming" and "Warrior "While the Convent Bells Were Ringing."
Bold" were long since buried because they
Cole and Johnson scored heavily at the
were not so close to the human heart. "Her Haymarket Theatre, Chicago, where they
Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" were the headliners. Their repertoire is made
and "Nancy Brown," another version of the up of their own compositions and included
same sentiment, are recognized as descrip- "Under the Bamboo Tree," "Nobody's Look-
tive lyrics of a type more or less well-known. in' But the Owl and the Moon" and "Mandy,
George Ade's "R-e-m-o-r-s-e" has caught the Won't You Let Me Be Your Beau?"
SOME STAGE SONG HITS.
fancy because it is a satire with a moral on
IDA MAY.
Another "batch" of "popular songs has the too free indulgence in an American drink
One
of
the
cleverest
juvenile singing and
come to town, and again is the question and may hold its place on the list of "p°P~
dancing
acts
now
on
the
stage is that of Lit-
raised as to what constitutes "popularity" in ular" songs as long as there are people who
tle
Ida
May,
whose
picture
appears herewith.
the song market. It is interesting to note understand what it is to get up "the morn-
Not
yet
in
her
"teens,"
Miss
May has played
the passing seasons of "popular" songs, if ing after" with an aching head and a regret
many
important
parts
in
dramatic
produc-
for no other reason than that the seasons do for a night's folly.
tions.
She
is
at
present
with
the
Daniel
R.
pass, thanks to the ever-changing American
The most "popular" coon song lives but
taste.
a few months. Like the "coon" pictures on
It is not always easy to explain why one
the funny page, it is only briefly diverting.
song becomes "popular" while others fail to
The reason for this perhaps is that they, like
do so, but it requires no great mental effort
their subjects, all look or rather sound alike.
to decide which songs are "popular" after
they have made a "hit." It would be too
WHAT THEY ARE SINGING.
much to say that the success of a song now-
The annual entertainment of the Journal-
adays is entirely dependent upon its music. ists' Club is at all times a most enjoyable oc-
If a number has a swinging tune, easily re- casion, this year particularly so, and the vo-
membered, its chances for success are in- cal program included "Call a Cab and Send
creased, to be sure, but many other things Me Home," sung by the composer, Jean
enter into the question. A new method of Havez; "When It's All Goin' Out and Noth-
singing the song, a bit of business on the in' Comin' In," by Williams and Walker,
part of the actor serving to emphasize the and "Mandy, Won't You Let Me Be Your
points of the words sung, or a novel dance Beau?" by Cole and Johnson Bros.
accompanying the music, are frequently fac-
Two well-known ballads are introduced in
tors that serve to win success for a number the Egyptian spectacle "A Prince of Egypt"
that in a musical way would probably not which is now being produced in the larger
have scored at all. The words of the aver- cities of Michigan; these are George Rosey's
age popular song "hit"—of course with some "Maybe" and Horwitz and Bowers' "No One
exceptions—are not such as to commend But You."
themselves to literature. Indeed, some of
Johnnie Carroll made a big hit last week
the great favorites of the past have been so at the Grand Opera House, Indianapolis,
lacking in anything that approached intelli- with Heelan and Helf's new waltz song en-
gent ideas that one could but wonder at their titled "Since Sally Left Our Alley." Mr.
acceptance by an over-indulgent public.
Carroll is at the Columbia Theatre, Cincin-
Recently at a session of the Aschenbroe- nati, this week.
del, the musicians' union, the subject of pop-
The Engstrom Sisters are making a big
ular songs came up for discussion, and after hit at Pastor's this week with J. Fred Helf's Ryan Co., where she introduces her specialty
going over the successes for the past thirty "I'll Be Your Rain Beau."
nightly to numerous encores. Her songs are
years it was agreed that modern song writers
The Bates Musical Trio have added to always of the highest standard, including
were no better than the old.
their beautiful musical act Heelan and Helf's Jerome and Schwartz's "The Gambling Man,"
What then, constitutes success? After all, waltz song, "Since Sally Left Our Alley."
"Susie Anna," "Why Don't You Go-Go-
it is not difficult to analyze. Those songs
Jerome Sykes has found a treasure in the Go?" and "Just Kiss Yourself Good-bye."
that have enduring worth are the ones that topical song by Ed. P. Moran and Seymour Published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
come nearest the human heart. First in favor Furth called "In the Lives of Famous Men."
SINGING HELFS SUCCESS.
are the patriotic ballads. National hymns
Kelly and Violette are among the best that
Cooper
and Bailey, the clever sister team,
never die. "Marching Through Georgia," have come from the West and are enhancing
have
added
to their repertoire J. Fred Helf's
"Dixie Land" or "The Star Spangled Ban- their reputation wherever and whenever they
great
coon
song "If You Can't Be a Bell
ner" have never been more widely sung or sing Cole and Johnson Bros. "Nobody's
Cow
Fall
in
Behind" and Miss Clarice Vance
whistled than was "Shoo Flv," but the lat- Lookin' But the Owl and the Moon."
is
duplicating
her success with the same song
ter is forgotten these twenty years, while
Leon Fairbrother, chef d'orchestre of the
at
the
Bon
Ton
Theatre, Jersey City, this
its contemporaries still appeal.
Castle Square Theatre, Boston, frequently
week.
an intelligent looking cabby, explained the
matter to him, and entered the vehicle. The
cabby whipped up his horse and drove
around the block at a rattling rate in order
to get up steam, and then, shouting and ges-
ticulating, drove the two schemers aboard
the pier as though they were belated passen-
gers. It was "Two dollars, sir," but they
thought it was worth it as they grasped
Herr Luders' glad hand and wished him
bon voyage.
George m. Krty
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