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than Decatur, 1804, in Pain's openair theater.
There are so many effective episodes and start-
ling events crowded into the presentation that it
is difficult to decide which is the more attractive
or realistic. The blowing up of the Philadelphia
by Decatur is equaled, in the minds of many, by
the bombardment of Tripoli by Preble and his
squadron, led by the famous old warship Consti-
tution. She is still afloat, as a living evidence of
how well the American shipbuilders put together
the wooden walls of the young republic for fight-
ing purposes. The spectacle, as a patriotic re-
minder of the days of one hundred years ago, is
one of the best things of its kind yet seen on any
CLEVER LEO FRIEDMAN.
In presenting herewith a portrait of Leo Fried-
man we are enabling many readers to study the
features of their favorite composer of popular
melodies, who is, however, too modest to have his
picture printed on the title pages of his numerous
publications, ranging in character from sacred
and sentimental songs to descriptive instrumen-
tal numbers, and even "coon" songs. But Mr.
Friedman is a thoroughly educated musician, who
knows how to use syncopation—"wisely and not
too well"—which accounts for the popularity of
his latest Indian "reservation innovation," en-
titled "The Wigwam Dance," among cultivated
musicians as well as the masses. For Mr. Fried-
man studied in Berlin for a number of years,
under such masters as Kullak, Dr. Hans Bischoff
and Dr. Jedliczska—the evidence of whose thor-
ough instruction appears in the harmony and
musicianly development of even his lighter melo-
dies. Of his success in the field of concert songs
there is no better proof than the fact that he has
composed most of Jessie Bartlett Davis' successes
for the past several seasons. Among his hits
may be mentioned, "Coon, Coon, Coon," "Baby
Mine," "Dream On, Sue," "In a Poppy Field,"
"If I Should," "There It's Always Home, Sweet
Home," "Tizan, the Maid of Hindostan," and
"Too Whoo? To You," the latter ones having been
published since he joined the staff of the Wit-
marks, for whom he now writes exclusively.
ENGAGE VICTOR HERBERT.
The Composer to Write All the Music for the
Lew Fields Theater Shows.
Announcement was made Tuesday by Hamlin,
Mitchell & Fields that Victor Herbert had been
engaged to write all the music for the produc-
tions at the Lew M. Fields Theater, which is to
open in West 42d street in November. It also
was announced that Miss Marie Cahill had
signed as a member of the Lew iFelds Co.
Mr. Herbert held conferences this week with
Glen MacDonough, who is writing the book of the
musical production which will open the new
theater. Rehearsals will probably begin early in
September.
The same firm will produce the comedy "Bird
Center," also from the pen of Glen MacDonough,
founded on the cartoons of George McCutcheon,
in the West on or about Aug. 23.
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MUSIC PUBLISHERS' LIVE WIRES.
One of the greatest surprises in connection
with the music publishing business to-day is that
music which is embellished with a magnificent
lithograph cover in colors and containing be-
sides from five to seven pages of music can be
produced and sold at one of the department stores
for ten cents. Our attention was recently called
to the matter by a dealer in a suburb of New
York, who for ten years has made a nice income
from the sale of music in his town and locality.
He now complains that music is sold in the de-
partment stores cheaper than he can buy it from
publishers. This is a remarkable condition of
affairs and certainly not creditable to the pub-
lishers engaged in it—nor is it hopeful for the
future, because a business founded on such an
unsound and illogical basis cannot permanently
thrive. There is certainly "something rotten in
the state of Denmark."
Miss Amy Whaley, who won a reputation as a
prima donna soprano during her concert tours
with the U. S. Marine Band, is filling a series of
engagements with the various Chautauqua as-
semblies throughout the country this summer.
Miss Whaley has just concluded her engagement
of Tama, (la.) Assembly, where, she writes, 3,000
people heard and applauded her rendition of
"Star of My Life," by Ogden Ward and Edward
Warren Corliss; and at Mountain Lake Park,
Md., she will introduce J. A. Daynes' latest sacred
song "The Holj' Temple," which she will sing
also before the Assembly at Northampton, Mass.
"It is a great song for the masses," writes Miss
Whaley to its publishers, the Witmarks.
Now that Dan Emmet is dead we note the
usual questionings as to his being the author of
the music of "Dixie." One writer in last Sun-
day's Sun stated that the tune is an exact copy of
an old English song called "The Dashing
White Sergeant." Now this will not hold as the
resemblance of "Dixie" to the "Dashing White
Sergeant" is very slight. A couple of bars at the
opening of the strain are somewhat alike, but
outside of that there is but little similarity. It
is rather late to take credit from Emmet, who
wrote the words and music in 1859 in New York.
That the tune may have been somewhat alike or
even suggested by some other is possible, but
genius ITas always taken its own where it found
it.
Notwithstanding the advertised "decline" of
ragtime, Thomas Preston Brooke finds it suf-
ficiently popular in music-loving Milwaukee, to
give seven special "rag" programmes during the
season of his band at the Exposition Gardens.
The sixth programme included high-class "rags"
from "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Victor Herbert;
picked-over "rags" from "Twirly Whirly," Fran-
cis; "rags" selected by "Hodge, Podge Co.,"
Bratton, and a tangle of Witmark's latest, in-
cluding "I've Got to Go Now," "Follow the Crowd
on a Sunday," "On the Water Wagon" and "The
Coonville Cullud Band."
Thibet now being very much in the popular
eye, makes very timely the production at the
Illinois Theater, Chicago, of a Thibetan comic
opera entitled, "The Forbidden Land." The book
is by Guy F. Steely and the score by Frederick
Chapin, both Chicagoans, while the production is
under the direction of the Dearborn Theater man-
agement, which produced "The Tenderfoot" and
other popular light operas. The scenes of the
now opera painted from sketches and photo-
graphs by Henry Savage Lander—the only white
man who ever got out of this country alive—are
all laid in the "sacred city" of Lhassa. From all
accounts the opera scored such a success that it
will run all summer. The Witmarks will pub-
lish the score and special selections for the trade.
Hurtig & Seamon opened their new Pier at
Arverne-by-the-Sea with great eclat on the eve
of the Fourth. The feature of the dedication pro-
gramme was the singing of Isidore Witmark's
latest topical waltz song, "Arverne-by-the-Sea,"
by Fred Whitfield, with the assistance of a juve-
nile vocalist in the gallery. After the first re-
frain the audience joined in the chorus and al-
together much enthusiasm was aroused.
Chicago has a new street advertising scheme.
ID order to gather and hold the crowds while he
is displaying advertising slides, the stereopticon
man has adopted the device of sandwiching in
popular songs, which he illustrates while they
are rendered by vocalists or instrumentalists
from a neighboring window. Last week he illus-
trated "Follow the Crowd on a Sunday," with
moving pictures. Fully 2,000 people gather
nightly to enjoy this free al fresco concert.
MME. SCHUMANN=HE1NK'S ARRIVAL.
Will Sail Within Two Weeks to Fill Several
Engagements—The Opera in Which She Is
to Star Mow Ready.
All rumors and reports to the contrary not-
withstanding, Mme. Schumann-Heink sails for
New York within the next fortnight to fulfil her
American engagements, beginning with the
Saengerfest of the Saengerbund of the North-
west, to be given at Exposition Hall, Milwaukee,
on July 28, 29 and 30. There are to be five con-
certs, with male chorus of 2,500; mixed chorus
of 1,000 and 3,000 children; the orchestra of 100
pieces being under the direction of Theodore
Thomas. This engagement will probably mark
the close of her concert work for the season,
since Mme. Schumann-Heink must immediately
begin preparations for her operatic starring tour,
under the management of Fred C. Whitney, in
the new opera written and composed especially
for her by Stanislaus Stange and Julian Ed-
wards. The principal numbers were sent to
Mme. Schumann-Heink in Germany as fast as
Mr. Edwards completed them, and called forth a
highly congratulatory postcard from the prima
donna to the composer. The opera is now com-
plete, except for the title which is still in de-
bate. However, believing that "an opera by any
other name would sound as sweet" the Witmarks
already have the score and principal numbers
in preparation for publication as soon as the title
is decided on.
INTERESTED IN PUBLISHING BUSINESS.
Louis C. Whiton, lawyer, of 252 West 85th
street, New York, has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy, with liabilities $100,616, of which $48,456
are secured, and nominal assets $115,508, consist-
ing of house and lot at Ozone Park, valued at
$10,000, mortgaged for $7,500; accounts, $21,500;
claims, $20,500; sheet music and plates, $5,000;
stocks, $58,500, and cash in bank, $8. The stocks
include $12,500 Woodhaven Junction Land Co.,
and $45,000 Georgia Land & Development Co.,
hypothecated. Mr. Whiton said that the liabili-
ties were incurred principally as attorney and
treasurer of land companies in Queens County
and on behalf of a client, the International Music
Co. Among the creditors are the Sprague Na-
tional Bank of Brooklyn, $18,200, secured; Wood-
haven Bank, $15,500, secured, and $2,052, judg-
ment; Bank of Jamaica, $1,450, and Mechanics'
National Bank of Brooklyn, $2,000.
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