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good enough for me. Here the disturbance could
be settled within an hour if the two publishers
behind a certain department store would cease
their foolish policy. I t is all wrong, and some-
thing must be done to get the publishers to-
gether. Not literally, for that is impossible; out
a selling understanding could be established that
would be satisfactory all around. I was driven
to become a publisher in self-protection, or my
retail trade would have been wiped out."
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will feature "Why Don't They Play With Me,"
"I'm Trying So Hard to Forget You :> (new), and
"The Song That Makes Me Think of Home,
Sweet Home" (new). In August next she will
appear in German opera at Dresden, under the
patronage of Frau Mellinger.
REVIEWOGRAPHS.
Despite the statement of the defense in their
argument before the United States Circuit Court,
New York City, in the case of the White-Smith
A CHARMING ARTIST
Music Publishing Co. against the Apollo Co., that
Is Delia Donald, Who Joins the Vaudeville perforated music rolls were absolutely un-
Forces After Great Success With "The Bos- decipherable "for the purpose of singing or play-
ing the music therefrom as from a printed
tonians"—A Decided Acquisition.
sheet," Wm. H. Penn, of Sol. Bloom's writing
Another recruit, rather an acquisition, to the staff, declares he can read the rolls readily and
ranks of singers in vaudeville is Delia Donald, without the use of a graduating scale, templet
late prima donna contralto with "The Bos- or square, or previous knowledge of the key or
tonians," and who is generally called the "won- pitch. The writer of "Pansy Faces" and other
derful young California girl." The young lady, well-known compositions, and Mr. Votey, of the
Aeolian Co., should foregather and compare
notes. The results would be interesting.
Jos. W. Stern & Co. have signed a contract
with Benjamin Hapgood Burt, to write exclu-
sively for them for the ensuing two years. Mr.
Burt is well known as a writer of clever lyrics
and catchy music, and some of his recent suc-
cesses have been "Jingles, Jokes and Rhymns,"
George Grossmith's recent hit in "The School
Girl"; "Never Had to Work," Frank Daniels'
popular number in "The Office Boy," and
"Babette," also in Mr. Daniels' repertoire two
seasons back. Mr. Burt has just furnished
Frank L. Perley with four numbers for his new
opera, "The Girl and the Bandit," and is at pres-
ent engaged in writing special numbers to be in-
troduced m the forthcoming Frohman musical
comedy productions.
Orson B. Woodbury, author of the campaign
song of 1840, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," died
Saturday last in Madison, Wis., at the age of
eighty years. He wrote several other songs, was
once a Wisconsin editor and was one of the three
men that called the first Republican meeting in
Berlin, Wis., in 1854. He was driven out of St.
Louis during the civil war because of anti-slavery
sentiments.
DELIA DONALD.
whose charming personality makes her hosts of
friends everywhere, is from Los Angeles, Cal.,
her home, and as a child sang with great suc-
cess in Honolulu. Miss Donald is a thorough mu-
sician in the best sense of the word, has a beau-
tiful, rich voice and her technique has been
greatly admired by those competent to judge her
proficiency as a singer of unusual range and
power. As a graduate of the Leland Stanford
University of California it is needless to refer
to her other attainments and accomplishments,
socially and professionally. During the past
year she has been a member of the famous "Bos-
tonians," with whom she enjoyed a pronounced
success, being referred to at all times as the
ideal "Alan-a-Dale" of "Robin Hood's Band," and
to which her attractive personal appearance, be-
ing tall, slender and blonde, contributed in no
small measure. Delia Donald makes her debut
in vaudeville on the Proctor circuit, when she
POPULAR SONG and INSTRUMENTAL HITS
POLLY PRIM MARCH
SHAME ON YOU
FALL IN LINE
BIG INDIAN CHIEF
FISHING
EGYPT
PLAIN MAMIE O'HOOLEY
PEGGY BRADY
TWO ROSES
MADCAP PRINCESS
RED FEATHER
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SAMBO GIRL
JEWEL OF ASIA
JOS. W . STERN 6 CO,
34 East 21st S}., New York
CHICAGO
LONDON
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The following marches have become great
favorites among orchestra and band lears, and
they are equally popular at dancing assemblies
because the two-step is still one of the principal
attractions at these functions. The entire list is
published by M. Witmark & Sons, New York,
viz.: "Good-Bye, Little Girl. Good-Bye," "We'll
Raise the Roof To-Night" (with vocal chorus),
"Listen to the Big Brass Band," "Kate Kearney'
(Intro. Goreo), "By Right of Sword," "I'm on
the Water Wagon Now" (Intro. I Thought
Wrong), "I Can't do the Sum," "Tessie, You are
the Only, Only," "Coonville's Cullud Band," "The
Sentry," "Glory," "Since I First Met You," "My
United States," "The Tale of the Seashell,"
"Soldiers," "We're All Good Fellows," "I'll
Shake Up This Mean Old Town."
With the assumption of full power and re>
sponsibility in the "Big Firm" by Jerome H.
Remick, it is now definitely announced that Fred
E. Belcher will be the personal representative of
his chief in New York and the general manager
of the eastern establishment. Mose Gumble has
had his field of activity enlarged, and is in
charge of the firm's professional department in
its entirety. Mr. Remick left for Detroit Sunday
and will probably not return to New York until
after the holidays.
These items were caught floating around Sol.
Bloom's headquarters: (1) I. Waldman Tesch-
ner, the business manager, returned Friday last
from a week's visit to Boston, and had a pleas-
ant word to say of the luxurious hotel accommo-
dations afforded the tired New York traveler, as
well as a timely criticism of the demoralized
condition of business in the Puritan capital. (2)
Cara Kilrani, who* appears at clubs and in vaude-
ville, and rs referred to as "a child of nature"
by her intimates, is singing "Carissima," by
Arthur Penn. A peculiar circumstance in this
connection is that the title of the song is the
singer's pet name. (3) Percy Campbell Mason
and Ellis R. Ephraim are featuring "She's Gone
to the Land of Santa Claus" with eclat and
profit. (4) Major O'Rourke, of Inneskean, Ire-
land, writes of the success of "A Bit o' Blarney"
in the land of the shamrock.
A well-defined rumor is to the effect that the
F. B. Haviland Publishing Co. are contemplating
the purchase what remains of the once great
Howley-Dresser Co. catalogue from the trustee
in bankruptcy. They are in a better position to
know its value than anyone else in the business,
but it will be sold at a price if at all. Mean-
while the creditors wonder what is going to be-
come of their claims and what is really the status
of affairs anyway.
Albert von Tilzer, manager of the York Music
Co., returned from his western professional and
and pleasure tour Monday. Jack, the power be-
hind the throne, goes toward the setting sun this
week for a short trip.
Another choice morsel on the "street" is that
"Dick" Remick, of Shapiro, Remick & Co., of-
fered the olive branch to Sol. Bloom, who
promptly accepted the overture in the spirit in
which it was tendered. When Mr. Goldfinger, of
Siegel-Cooper'& Co., was approached on a simi-
lar measure, he is reported as sending out word
he was "too busy" to entertain this angel un-
awares. Since then tongues have wagged more
vociferously than ever, but it is surmised there
is something doing, which may materialize in
the near future. In the meanwhile the under
dog in this scrimmage for some sort of recogni-
tion, what no one has as yet quite clearly de-
nned, in other words, the regular dealer, is the
unwilling and unfortunate recipient of the hard-
est blows.
SONG WRITING SPRINT ON A WAGER.
Oscar Hammerstein, the New York Theatrical
Ajax, and George M. Cohan, to decide a wager,
will each write an entirely original song, the
winner to be decided by a committee composed
of Frederick Rankin, the librettist; William
Parry, for many years stage director of the
Metropolitan Opera House, and Maurice Levi, of
"Higgledy-Piggledy" fame. The contest is to be
decided upon the following points: 1. Speed.
2. Quality of music. 3. Quality of lyrics. I t
will be held in Mr. Hammerstein's private office
at the Victoria Theatre, and to prevent previous
preparation, the judges will a t that time give
each contestant his theme, together with the
tempo in which the music is to be written.
All this is the result of a controversy in the
Green Room Club last Friday when Cohan's
manager, declared that the star of "Little
Johnny Jones" could write a song in quicker
time than any other lyricist in the city. Thomas
W. Ryley disputed the assertion, and put for-
ward Oscar Hammerstein as his champion, re-
minding Mr. Harris that Mr. Hammerstein had
once written the libretto and score of a comic
opera in twenty-four hours and on another occa-
sion the words and melody of a song in ten min-
utes on a wager. Mr. Harris retorted that "If
I Were Only Mr. Morgan," one of Mr. Cohan's
most popular songs, was completed in fifteen
minutes. A bet of $100 was made, the loser to
pay that amount into the Actor's Fund.
Theodore Morse, of the F. B. Haviland Pub-
lishing Co., sings his own songs in the combina-
tion known as "The Theodore Morse Trio," which
is now on tour in one of the leading vaudeville
circuits, opening at the Yorkville Theatre, New
York City, Monday. Teddy's singing associates
are his lyric writers, Jack Drislane and George
Offermann. Their repertoire includes: "Blue
"Book of Songs for Motor Cyclists" is being
Bell," "I've Got a Feelin' For You," "Come
Down From the Big Fig Tree," "Beansy," "Oys- compiled by the German Motor-cycle Club, Bal-
ters and Clams" (the rag-time oyster man), and timore, Md. Prizes are offered for the six best
songs submitted.
"The Seventeenth of March."