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has been the production of new plays, and
the revival of farces which are practically
new to the present generation of play-
goers. This policy, it is understood, has
met with such gratifying success that it
will be continued during the Fall and Win-
ter.
Since the recent purchase by Mr. Proc-
tor of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Street Theatre, he has made extensive
plans for the complete renovation and al-
teration of the house, and already a large
force of workmen are busily engaged. At
the Fifty-eighth and Twenty-third Street
Theaters the usual high standard is being-
maintained, and the slogan "Proctor and
Prosperity" continue to go hand in hand.
CHOSEN AS GENERAL MUSIC DIRECTOR.
Max S. Witt, the popular head of the
professional department of Jos. W. Stern
& Co., for the past eight years, has ac-
cepted the offer of Broadhurst & Currie to
become their general music director. With
his departure from the field of his useful-
ness where his relations have been con-
genial, he voluntarily handed Stern & Co.
an exclusive contract covering a period of
five years whereby all of his compositions
are to be published by that firm. He is
slated to write the music of several musi-
cal comedies with Mr. Broadhurst and is
in collaboration on an opera which will be
produced next spring. Mr. Witt's popu-
larity as a composer was signalized in the
success of his ballads, "The Moth and the
Flame" and "My Little Georgia Rose;"
these were followed by "My Heart's To-
night in Texas," "When the Birds Go
North Again," "While the Convent Bells
W r ere Ringing," "When the Fields Are
White With Cotton," "The Everlasting
Night," "Down by the Summer Sea," "The
Woodland Blossom and the Hothouse
Flower," "Don't Let Her Lose Her Way,"
"Grace O'Moore," "Off the Massachusetts
Coast," "When the Cows Are Coming
Home," "Military Molly."
As a composer of instrumental music, he
is best known by these waltzes: "Mice and
Separate Numbers and Scores
of the following
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O p e r a and Musioal
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"TMB JEWEL 6 P ASIA"-By Frederic Ranker, Harry
B. Smith and Ludwig Englander.
"NANCY BROWN"—By Frederic Ranken and Henry
K. Hadley.
"THE HOCKING BIRD"—By Sidney Rosenfeld and A.
Baldwin Sloane.
"SALLY IN OUR ALLEY"—By Geo. V. Hobart and
Ludwig Englander.
"THE WILD ROSE"—By Harry B. Smith and Ludwig
Englander.
.
"THE BLONDE IN BLACK"—By Harry B. Smith and
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Just West of Broadway,
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MUSIC
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managers. They have released this com-
poser's last composition "Come Down My
Evening Star" to the profession at large,
thereby insuring Mrs. Stromberg a large
increase in royalties. This song was first
sung by Lillian Russell in "Twirly Whirly"
and was one of the best things this prima-
CARLE'S "MUMMY AND T&E MAID."
donna ever did. Owing to the strong at-
In presenting a picture of Richard Carle, tachment which every member of the com-
the comedian and author of "The Tender- pany felt toward John Stromberg, the song
foot," the music play which is now having was given with a certain feeling and sym-
a successful run in Chicago, it may be pathy which Lillian Russell has rarely
added that he has just finished the score of shown before. It has a little under-current
of sadness woven into its flowing melody
which almost brings tears, even though it
be just a darky serenade to a star.
Men," "Sweet Repose," "Orange Blos-
soms," "Phyllis," "First Violin," "Belle of
Grenade," "Birth of the Rose," "Diana."
Also the following: "Commander in Chief"
March, "Ambassador" March Henry V.,
and Dance Antique.
IN TABLOID FORM.
Louise Drehaney, a vaudeville singer
whose voice is a remarkable soprano of great
range and sweetness, has chanced upon her
piece de resistance in her ballad called "Dear
Heart," which is predicted will make the
composer, Louis Weslyn Jones, famous be-
fore many months. This song has that happy
mingling of sentiment and pathos which as-
sures it a place along with such unforgetable
songs as "Annie Laurie," "Coming Through
the Rye," etc.
RICHARD CARLE.
Jos. W. Stern & Co. intend to have an in-
a new musical comedy, called "The teresting and comprehensive exhibit of music
Mummy and the Maid," which will be pro- at "The Fashion Show," which is to be held
duced in the early fall. The music is by at Madison Square Garden during the first
Robert Hood Bowers, and the new comedy two weeks of September.
is said to be very unique in theme and
J3. A. Silberberg, composer and pianist of
treatment. If there is one song which is the song-writing team of Standish & Silber-
as good as "My Alamo Love," the pre-em- berg, played a special engagement at New-
inent hit of "The Tenderfoot," the play port, R. L, on the evening of August 8. The
will be well worth hearing.
entertainment was given on board Mrs. Pem-
broke Jones' yacht, the Narada, at the re-
COLLEGE SONGS IN DEMAND.
ception given to Miss Roosevelt. The hit
"Songs of All the Colleges," published of the evening was "Dear Rosalie," the latest
by Hinds & Noble, acknowledged authori- ballad hit of these successful collaborators.
ties and headquarters for this class of mu-
SOL. BLOOM " H I T S . "
sic, is selling extremely well. Recently
Supported by twenty clever young women,
several century orders have been booked,
Marie Culp introduces "My Palm Leaf
the work being especially popular in the Maid" with Hyde's Blue Ribbon Girls, and
West. Their "New Songs for College Giee scores a hit at every performance. Anita
Clubs" have been officially adopted by Merlo has been fortunate enough to select
Humboldt College, Iowa, University of two songs of entirely dissimilar kind and
Michigan, University of Colorado Glee finds each a hit. They are "In the Glare of
Old Broadway" and "The Boys in the Gal-
Club, Drake University, Des Moines, la., lery for Mine." "Good Morning Glory"
Schubert Glee Club, Mount Hermon is an emphatic hit with Clara Douglas, as
(Mass.) School, Miss Mason's School, it is also with Lydia Barry, of Felix
Then there is nothing in
Tarrytowh, N. Y., which ordered 25 books & Barry.
Reilly
&
Woods'
clever organization scores
and then immediately repeated the pur-
more emphatically than "Moon," produced
chase; John B. Stetson University, Deland, with novel effects and rendered by a chorus
Fla., University of Virginia, Gettysburg of well drilled voices. All of these are pub-
(Pa.) College Glee Club, Y. M. C. A., of lished by Sol. Bloom.
Detroit, Mich., and recently the Harvard
HOWLEY, HAVILAND & DRESSERISMS.
Peiran Sodality used the work at one of
They say that the Trans-Atlantic Four
their big musical entertainments, which is
are featuring "Dear Old Girl," a new bal-
really only a small number of the leading lad by Theo. F. Morse, and, like most good
colleges and fashionable scholastic insti- ballads, it is published by Howley, Havi-
tutions which have stamped the songs with land & Dresser.
They say that Maud White, who has
their approval.
joined the "Wizard of Oz" Co., will sing
WEBER & FIELDS' GENEROSITY.
"Up In the Cocoanut Tree." This song
bids
fair to be a song hit of the season.
Theatrical managers generally are not
They say that William Redmond sang
much given to sentiment in their business Paul Dresser's march song, "The Boys Are
dealings; therefore it is gratifying and Coming Home To-day," at Prospect Park,
pleasing to hear of Weber & Fields having Brooklyn, a few weeks back, accompanied
broken a hard-and-fast rule of restricting by Borjes' Forty-seventh Regiment Band
their song successes to the use of their pro- of 40 men. The audience was estimated at
between 12,000 and 15,000 people. The
ductions exclusively, in favor of Mrs. applause that this song received stamps it
Stromberg, the widow of John Stromberg, as one of the best songs Dresser has ever
late musical director for these prominent written.