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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
the bill. Aurie Dagnell writes us that "Just a
Little Rocking Chair and You" is the best song
she has used in some time.
The latest prints from F. B. Haviland Publish-
ing Co. follow: Vocal—"If I Ever Get Back to
Cincinnati" (in "The Blank Politician"), by
Chris. Smith and S. H. Dudley; "What Would
You Take for Me, Mamma," and "Arrah-Wanna,"
by Theo. Morse; "Dat Lovin'. Rag," by Bernard
Adler.
"THE MAN ON THE STREET."
Argument in Ricordi-Hammerstein Suit Post-
poned—Lowitz as Cartoonist—Leoncavallos
March for President—Hitchcock Explana-
tion—Other Items.
Argument in the suit of G. Ricordi & Co., Milan,
Italy, against Oscar Hammerstein, relative to the
production of Puccini's opera "La Boheme," which
was expected to have been heard in the United
States Circuit Court, New York, before Judge La-
combe, has gone over until Nov. 1G. George Max-
well, as Ricordi & Co.'s American agent, repre-
sents the complainants, who" allege that the Con-
ried Metropolitan Opera Co. have the right of
producing "La Boheme" the coming season. Its
right to the production of the opera, they state,
was established by the United States Circuit
Court of the eastern district of New York in 1898,
when H. E. Blein was enjoined from its presenta-
tion in Brooklyn.
John B. Lowitz is not only a song writer—words
and music—but has something of a reputation as
a daily newspaper cartoonist under the signature
of "Swifty." His main business, however, is
strictly commercial, for he represents Cluett, Pea-
body & Co., the great collar and shirt manufac-
turers, of Troy, N. Y,. looking after the account in
the principal department stores of the metropolis.
A few of Mr. Lowitz's compositions, on the side,
as it were, are: "Baby Blue," published by Jerome
H. Remick & Co.; "I'm Crazy About a Big Brass
Band," by M. Witmark & Sons; "Lady's Maid,"
"It's Lonely to Be Single," "Don't Argify" and
"Hello, Peaches," by Willis Woodward & Co. Mr.
Lowitz says he takes out and controls his own
copyright titles and is a free lance regarding pub-
lishing rights.
Monday week a specially prepared copy of
Leoncavallo's new march, "Viva l'America," was
presented to President Roosevelt at the'White
i l . A i i h i : VANCE.
House, Washington, D, C , by Rudolph Aronson
"The Southern Singer," now featuring an entire
Itemick Repertoire over the Keith & Proctor Circuit. on behalf of Chas. K. Harris, the publisher, New
York. With it was an autograph note to the
ANOTHER BIG PURCHASE BY REMICK & CO. President from Leoncavallo highly complimen-
That enterprising firm, Jerome H. Remick & Co., tary to Mr. Roosevelt and the United States.
has bought "Dance of tha June Bugs" from Rohl- This is a reminder, told in the "street" of a rep-
fing & Sons Music Co., Milwaukee, Wis., for resentative, who, on being asked how many copies
$3,000. It is a well-known fact among the trade of Leoncavallo's march he could handle, wrote
at the present time that the Remick house has back: "Who is Leoncavallo, any way, and what
got, it claims, all the standard pieces" published. has he done?" The goods were shipped him,
This has cost thousands of dollars, but Mr. nevertheless.
Remick feels that it is a good investment, as
A New York publishing house has on its books
compositions, such as "Dance of the June Bugs,"
"Wedding of the Winds" waltz and "Dance of the between 5,00-0 and 10,000 names of persons who
Demons," have sold for years, and will sell for have bought their music or made inquiries as
being in and of the "profession." Just think of
years to come.
supplying professional copies to this bunch!
WILLIS WOODWARD & CO.
PUBLISHERS OF
May Irwin's Great Hit of this Season,
"DON'T
ARGIFY"
By John B. Lowitz (Swifty).
Elizabeth Murray's Great Success,
"PEGGY
SHEA"
By Arthur Gillespie and Paul
And the New Summer
Waltz
Schindler.
Song,
"HELLO PEACHES"
By John B. Lowitz and Henry Arthur Blumentiial.
For a limited time the above can be had at 80% from
list price.
ASTHORE
The Great Comedy Success Played by
CHAUNCEY OUCOTT
Some of the Song Hits Which Are Published
by Chappell & Co.
"The Blue Moon" was heard for the first time
in New York at the Casino Theater Saturday
evening last. Howard Talbot and Paul A. N,
Rubens wrote the music and Harold Ellis sup-
plied the book. James T. Powers, the popular,
comedian, filled the title role. The play was
accorded a hearty reception by a large audience,
the music being bright and sparkling. The fol-
lowing are the real song hits out of the eighteen
vocal numbers: "The Crocodile," "Little Blue
Moon," "Burmah Girl" and "She Didn't Know."
Chappell & Co., Ltd., New York, are the publish-
ers. W. T. Eastman, manager of the publishing
firm, was present at the performance.
CHICAGO
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Music Engravers and Printers
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"Priscilla"
Intermezzo
Bind Two-Step
"SINCE
FATHER
BALLADS
Down Where M o h » w k
F l o w s , Golden Autumn
Time Sweet Elaine. Eve-
ning Breeie Sighing Home,
Sweet Home, Heart'l To-
night In Tennessee.
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"Little Girl
You'll Do"
Laid Carpet on
SUlrs
Little Buttercup
Young Antelope (Indutn-
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Harvest Moon Shining on
River
"Dedrie"
Lfolltd
"Robinson
Crusoe's
Isle"
"Peter
Piper"
March
READY OCT. 1st. 1906
The World's Representative Pia.no Folia
The Most Popular
Piano Pieces
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY RATES
Less than 25 copies
25 or more copies
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M. WITMARK & SONS, Publishers
YORK
THE "BLUE MOON" A CASINO HIT.
The finest collection of Piano Pieces ever published,
containing the thirty-five (35) most popular piano solos
arranged by America's master musician, George Rosey.
at the New York Theatre.
The Song Hits are "Day Dreams," "For Love of You,"
"Eileen Asthore," and "Wearers of the Green."
NEW
When the case of Augustus P. Bennett, with
M. Witmark & Sons, was called in Hackensack,
N. J., recently, it was nolle prossed, the State
admitting lack of evidence to convict. The de-
fendant was indicted for taking a number of
copies of "The Holy City" when the raid was
made on the premises of Garrett J. Couchois, in
Rutherford, N. J., and used in evidence against
him when the latter was convicted of issuing spu-
rious copies of this music and sent to jail.
Mr. Bennett, with George Maxwell, of Boosey
& Co., and Jack von Tilzer, of the York Music
Co., were severally and collectively proceeded
against by Couchois after his release, in a spirit
of revenge, it is alleged. The Maxwell and Von
Tilzer charges were quashed by the grand jury,
and the Bennett case, though called, never went
to trial, the prosecution falling down. This dis-
poses completely of what the "street lawyers"
considered a "very serious matter." Couchois is
still under suspended sentence in New York.
Raymond Hitchcock gives a novel explanation
for his reason for leaving musical comedy: "It
is not that I thought I could do something else
better than what my friends tell me I am fitted
for," said the actor, "but the truth is musical
comedy has reached a point where either myself
or the tenor in the white duck suit had to go.
Not that I was at all jealous of the long pale man
who sings 'My Heart Is Bursting for Love of
You-ou-ou-oo-oo,' but I objected to being com-
pelled to sit on a green bench beneath an artificial
catalpa tree eight times a week and hold hands
with the musical comedy aunt of the baby-faced
NOW READY-THE MUSICAL NUMBERS OF
"EILEEN
girl I am trying to marry, while that confounded
tenor is interrupting the action of the piece."
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