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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
back a couple of weeks now from my Western
SUCCESSFUL SONG WRITING TEAM.
trip, which was highly successful; that is, wher-
Will be Held March 13 at the Congressional ever the music dealers could be found who had
Although the youngest team of song writers
Library, Washington, D. C.
any confidence at all to buy anything in the known to the realm of popular music, at least so
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, has music line. You see, I found the music trade far as the length of their term of co-partnership
notified the delegates from the Music Publishers' pretty well disrupted by the popular sheet music is concerned, Lenox and Sutton have already es-
Association of the United States that the third war, which seems to be going on most every- tablisned for themselves a prominent and perma-
and probably the final copyright conference will where in the United States." Mr. Wier knows nent reputation. They have just signed an agree-
be held March 13 in the Congressional Library, whereof he writes, for he has had an experience ment with M. Witmark & Sons, making that firm
Washington, D. C. The gentlemen from the trade covering not a few years with publishers of popu- the exclusive publishers of their compositions.
With the signing of the contract they handed the
present at the last meeting, in the City Club, New lar music.
Witmarks a hit in the song, "Let Good Enough
York City, November 1-4 last, were James F.
Schedules in bankruptcy, filed Saturday last,
Bowers, of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, president of of the Iris Music Co., New York, late managers
the association; George W. Furniss, with Oliver of the Adams Dry Goods Co.'s music depart-
Ditson Company, chairman copyright committee; ment, show liabilities of $11,301; assets, $2,060.
Walter M. Bacon, with White-Smith Music Pub- Sam Speck has taken over the company's inter-
lishing Company, Boston, Mass.; R. L. Thomae, ests in the store and continues the business.
with Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden,
N. J., and Nathan Burkan, counsel, New York
Katherine Dahl, now playing the Orpheum
City, framed the tentative bill for the pub- circuit, reports that she is making a sensational
lishers. A majority, if not all, of the delegation hit with Cobb and Edwards' "If a Girl Like
are expecting to attend the Washington confer- You Loved a Boy Like Me," published by the
ence, in which about twenty-five other associa- Gus Edwards Music Publishing Co. Miss Dahl
tions interested in the revision of the copyright predicts this song to be one of the biggest hits
laws will participate. Thorvald Solberg, Register of its kind since "I Can't Tell You Why I Love
of Copyrights, who will be the secretary, has pre- You, But I Do," by the same authors. The "House
pared a bill which will be submitted for the Melodious" is scoring on a number of their
approval and indorsement of the conferees pre- issues.
vious to its formal introduction in the Senate and
Describing audiences, Clyde PMtch, the eminent
House, where it will take its usual course of be-
ing sent to the committee on patents in both dramatist, in a lecture Saturday evening, under
l.odies, and public hearings given. Mr. Putnam the auspices of the "Legion of Political Educa-
will preside over the conference, which will tion," said that the one liking musical comedies
"is sincere; it will not be buncoed, except in
doubtless be in session several days.
a certain sort of a way. It does not pretend.
It is generous in its applause when it gets
REV1EWOGRAPHS.
what
it wants. Not only in America does this
I.KNOX AND SUTTON.
When Fritzi Scheff, the comic opera prima
donna, now appearing in "Mile. Modiste," was audience rule. In London, where a few years Alone," now being sung in "The Galloper" by
asked what songs she used to exercise her voice, ago it had only one theatre, it now has five, and Raymond Hitchcock, who is taking his audiences
by storm with its aid. This fine comedian pre-
she replied: "Oh, most anything—'any old thing,' tne tune and the girl reign supreme."
you call it. Sometimes coon songs, then there
A benefit matinee recently at the Oxford Music viously sang "The World Goes On," by the same
is the song 'A Picnic for Two'—I do like that. Hall, London, Eng., in aid of the late George writers, in "Easy Dawson." The team of Lenox
And then there is another song they sing in I.e Brunn (a very successful song writer) real- and Sutton is composed of Jean Lenox and Harry
'The Catch of the Season' called 'Little Girl, ized nearly $35,000. Now, when the memorial O Sutton, an exceptionally talented and brilliant
You'll Do.' I love it. I know I have no chance performance is given the late Paul Dresser, an- pair, who have, within a very short time, written
to see these things or hear them sung because other eminent writer of popular music, at the some remarkable successes, among them "Smile
matinees are the only way, and if I go to a Broadway Theatre, New York, Sunday evening, on Me," sung by Eddie Leonard, Virginia Earle
matinee I get so enthusiastic over the perform- March 25, may a like amount be taken in for and a host of other bright lights of the musical
ance that it upsets me for my own."
his monument. The committee of publishers stage—another recent Witmark hit.
Other noteworthy songs from their pen, which
will be announced next week.
Albert B. Wier, manager music department of
are soon to see daylight, are "Persuasion" and
Hinds, Noble & Eldridge, as an illustration of
Leo Feist, the publisher, denies his brother "Love Dreams." These will be featured by such
the situation among dealers, writes The Re- Sol is to embark in the same line of business popular professionals as Eva Tanguay, Anna
view in the following frank vein: "I have been for himself and that he will continue with him Laughlin, Adele Ritchie, Truly Shattuck, Pauline
as heretofore.
FINAL COPYRIGHT CONFERENCE
Complete vocal score and Separate Numbers of
"THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA"
Book and Lyrics by CHAS. EMERSON COOK.
Music by LUCIUS HOSMER.
Featuring the well-known prlma donna,
Mme. LILLIAN BLAUVELT.
Supplementary Songs In the following productions :
EDNA MAT'S New Musical Play,
"THE CATCH OF THE SEASON."
"RAINING"
By Jerome D. Kern
SHCBEHT BROS.' English Musical Comedy Success,
"THE EARL AND THE GIRL."
"HOW'D YOU LIKE TO SPOON WITH ME."
Max. C. Eugene's hit, "IN ROSELAND" Intermezzo
Published by
T. B. HARMS CO.
126 West 44th St.
NEW YORK
"Thm House Mmlodlou*."
GUS EDWARDS
MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
Publishers of Lillian Russell's and the Sea-
sons Song Hits,
" I f a Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me."
"Somebody's Sweetheart I Want to Be,"
and "Napoli," and Italian Love Story.
Our New Issues
"Pocahontas" (Tammany's sister). " I n a little Canoe
with Y o u " being featured by all the leading acts In
Vaudeville. "When the Green Leaves turn to Gold' a
Beautiful Rustic Ballad.
Gus Edwards Music Pub. Co.
1512 Broadway, New York.
A correspondent, who objects to the music
offered in public dining rooms and restaurants
by the average orchestra, makes these sugges-
tions: "Eaters who know the pleasures of the
table, mental and material, don't want disturb-
ing music, but that kind which merely sug-
gests the sweet concordance of sound—the rest-
ful, lulling variety; the soulful, sensuous sort;
the delicate diapason that is a dream; the
spirit of harmony, not a bass drum club; the
still, small voice of Euterpe, not the snort of
a cornet—they want atmosphere, not solid slugs
of sound."
"A Friend in Need" is the title—rather com-
monplace, to be sure—of an operetta written
by Henry W. Hart, connected with the advertis-
ing department of the Aeolian Co. It is designed
for an amateur performance, and will be pro-
duced this month in New York. Mr. Hart also
plays the flute, and will lead the orchestra—his
first attempt in that capacity—when his work
is brought out.
Eugene Geary, the well-known poet and writer,
delivered an interesting lecture in Brooklyn last
week on James Clarence Mangan, the Irish poet,
whose writings are said to have inspired Edgar
Allen Poe and many other celebrities.
Publications of
The Moore Music Co.,
Frank B. Perry, Mgr., 1346 Broadway, New York.
VOCAL.
My Heart Goes Bump-pa-di-Bump For You I
When the Evening Shades are Falling.
Sweethearts Forever.
Alice Darling.
INSTRUMENTAL.
Misses and Kisses
A Novelette.
Gallant Brigade
• March and Two-Step.
Tanglefoot Joe - Characteristic Two-Step.
Every dealer should be on our "New Issue" list!
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