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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
of a composer who has written so unforget-
J. W. STERN & CO. SUCCESSES.
table a song as "Answer," and an author
Jos. W. Stern & Co. announce that the
who has written a book like "Checkers,"
just the result which accrued in "The acquiring of the $50,000 Chinese inter-
Yankee Consul," the latest musical comedy mezzo "Wong Ting Sing" is a "coup," that
of importance to be produced this season. will interest every dealer of sheet music in
To judge from the enthusiastic press com- the United States, as the demand for this
ment wherever it has appeared, it is a safe unique instrumental novelty savors of an
prediction that this Blossom and Roby undoubted success. Further two new bal-
PUBLISHERS' "LIVE WIRES."
masterpiece will, when it comes to New lads by Monroe H. Rosenfeld is an event in
itself; and his recent efforts, "Clean Hands
York,
enjoy a phenomenal run.
The inspection of manuscripts in the
publishing house is no mean task. One Publishers guard the titles of their is- and Tainted Gold," and "Only One! Just
firm runs through 120' a week—not hui"- sues with great circumspection until fully One " are equal to his "Take Back Your
riedly, but conscientiously and with a view launched. If the production is a hit, then Gold," and the popular "I Don't Care if
of discovering a nugget of gold in the heap the trouble begins with rival houses crib- You Never Comes Back." From the pen
of chaff. It is a task the labor of which bing the name with as close an imitation of S. R. Henry a new two-step, entitled
is by no means light, and the responsibility as the law allows, and often going beyond "Polly Prim" has sold so well that the en-
tire first edition was ordered in advance of
still greater.
this limit. The music shares the same
its coming from press, and another edition
The hit of the "Medal and the Maid," fate, and there is much wailing and gnash- is well nigh exhausted. In securing the
heard at the Broadway Theatre, Monday ing of teeth over a practice that seems exclusive services of Alfred Solman for a
evening, was an interpolated song. "Zanzi- irremediable.
term of years, the firm is extremely foi-
bar," rendered by Emma Carus, and a show
"Sergeant Kitty," which has been on tunate; this brilliant composer has given
girl chorus impersonating monkeys. The tour for several months, will be produced the public a pastoral ballad success in "In
galleries took up this vocal number, which in New York, Monday, at Daly's Theater, the Valley Where the Bluebirds Sing," and
has a swinging lilt, and whistled it through with Virginia Earl in the title role. Mon- among other manuscripts placed with his
half a dozen encores.
day, Justice Fitzgerald denied the applica- publishers that show every evidence of en-
A crabbed critic remarked, apropos of a cation of James Horan for an injunction hancing the reputation of their composer
recent comic opera, that "musical comedy restraining George R. White, Miss Earl's are "Turn Those Eyes Away," "The Bird
in England is plunged into a slough of manager, from producing the play. Chas. and the Organ," "Wait for Me," "Magger-
despond as deep and hopeless as that which K. Harris has the exclusive publishing land," and "Dance of the Moros." Two
new songs by Cole & Johnson Bros, in the
engulfs the same article of home manufac- rights of the play.
ture." Certainly a few, at least, of the musi-
"The County Chairman," at Wallack's production of "An English Daisy," heard
cal plays presented this year are fearfully Theater, is drawing much the largest au- in New York Monday, are "A Prepossess-
and wonderfullv made.
diences in New York. Mr. Ade's homely ing Little Maid," and a characteristic
Indian love song "The Big Chief." The
"Music must be dressed in colored title yet brilliant comedy is without doubt the former referred to is a dainty ditty which
pages these days to attract the public," says strongest hit the metropolis has seen in defies discrimination, while the latter is
F. H. Pearson. "Many a fine composition several seasons, and there is no telling how spoken of as a masterpiece in its aboriginal
is passed by because its covers are in plain long' it will last.
musical treatment, the lyric being a gem of
design. This applies to sheet music. Band
In connection with the closing of Weber Arcadian naivette.
and orchestra music must have attractive & Field's Theater about Feb. 1, with an
From across the sea, a cablegram speaks
titles and be advertised as the 'hit' of the extensive road tour before them, a progres- in glowing terms of the pronounced and
year. If we count the so-called 'hits,' we sive publisher said to The Review Tues- emphatic success made by the "Congo Love
find the task irksome by reason of its mag- day : "The best thing they could do. Pro- Song" in Seymour Hicks' play, "The
nitude. Whether pronouncing a composi- ductions in New York seldom net pub- Cherry Girl," which opened auspiciously in
tion a success before it has stood the test of lishers anything to speak of, and often they London ; this makes three emphatically uni-
time is good business tactics, might be are a positive loss. But as soon as the versal successes; the other two now run-
questioned. It is certain that modern ad- play is on the road business in the sale of ning in England's metropolis, being "Under
vertising as applied to the music trades has sheet music picks up amazingly. Metro- the Bamboo Tree," and "Egypt." In ad-
opened a new field for speculation."
politan prestige is all right, and necessary dition to these more than a dozen import-
One would expect from the collaboration for certain productions, but the money ant interpolations in Williams & Walker's
comes publishers' way when the companies Co., and current pantomime successes play-
are on the road."
ing in the principal cities of England will
be found to emanate from the catalogue of
ARTHUR TREVELYAN VISITS BOSTON.
Jos. W. Stern & Co.
[Special to The Review.]
Boston, Mass., Jan. n , 1904.
A MERITORIOUS DITSON PUBLICATION.
Arthur Trevelyan, the distinguished
English song writer, who is visiting the
In the fine song by Louis R. Dressier,
United States for a limited period, arrived
"Drink
to Me Only With Thine Eyes," the
here last week for the purpose of improv-
Oliver
Ditson
Co. have issued one of the
ing his acquaintance with the music pub-
lishers of Boston. Mr. Trevelyan has re- very really successful modern settings of
turned to New York, after having doubt- the well known old poem by Ben Johnson.
less benefited both the music publishing It is so singable, so effective for the voice,
contingency of this city and (incidentally) so attractive in melody, that its success was
Hinds & Noble, Publishers, jr JV.'isth St.,
himself by disposing of quite a few char- assured from the start. Singers have only
Jy. V. City, will send you any o/these books sub-
ject to approval. Enclose this advertisement.
acteristic effusions written during his so- to know the song to add it at once to their
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