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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
he will not be at a loss for piquant scenes. This
opera, however, will not be undertaken until after
d'Annunzio's lecture tour in South America.
SONG HIT NEEDED IN DETROIT.
Exploiting Songs at the 5 and 10 Cent Stores—
Closing of Theatres Injure Sale of Music.
DAISY JAMES FROM LONDON.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., June 17, 1907.
A novel scheme for placing its 10-cent sheet
music before the public was put into effect last
night at the 5 and 10-cent store of S. H. Knox
& Co., Woodward avenue. Lew Leever, a New
York city tenor, sang popular pieces every
afternoon to an enthusiastic crowd of shoppers.
The idea made a hit, and the Knox store had
unusually large sales of sheet music all the week.
Such songs as "Let Me See You Smile," "When
You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl
You Can't Forget," "The Bee That Gets the
Honey," "Won't You Come Over to Philly,
Willy," and many other hits.
Most of the theatres have closed for the sum-
mer and there is a consequent falling off in the
sales of popular sheet music. The lack of a big
summer hit is felt in Detroit, where music deal-
ers usually do a big summer's business, owing
to the many summer resorts near here.
Patrick Conway's Band, of Ithaca, N. Y., is
playing an engagement of several weeks at Elec-
tric Park.
GOOD MUSIC FOR THE PARKS OF DETROIT.
(Special to The Review.)
Detroit, Mich., June 17, 1907.
The city of Detroit has officially tabooed rag-
time and "popular" music. Nothing but classical
selections will be played in the public parks this
summer. Park Commissioner Philip Breitmeyer
has awarded the summer concert contract to
Prof. Herman Brueckner's Band.
Professor
Brueckner is musical director of the Harmonie
Singing Society, one of the finest musical organi-
zations in the city. He insists upon playing
classical ' music exclusively, unless an awful
"howl" goes up from people who prefer some-
thing light and airy during the summer months.
Rag-time music comes much cheaper than the
less popular classical music which Detroiters
will hear this summer. Last year Al. Green's
band pampered to the popular tastes, giving
eighteen concerts for $21 per man. This year
Brueckner's band will play only thirteen times
and will receive $25 per man.
Thirty-Day Sheet Music Special
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GRAND OPERA BITS
LOVE'S MEDITATION
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MANUEL KLEIN.
"The seats of the Mighty" are rarely occupied
by those who reach that eminence by leaps and
bounds, but instead by those who have come up
out of hard work, earning every step of their ad-
vancement. Manuel Klein is one of the few
who has attained recognition and fame early in
life. He is a well-known composer, and also
director of the orchestra and music at the Hippo-
drome, and has again entered the field and is
competing for fresh honors. Mr. Klein is a many-
sided man, whose versatility is as pronounced
as his aggressiveness. And now to the surprise
of many of his friends, with all his other duties,
Mr. Klein has found time to write another opera,,
and the many who delight in his songs will find
added pleasure in this musical play. Its title,
"My Polar Pearl," is as original as the opera
itself, and the music while full of varying themes,
yet follows along as in a sequence, so that one
recognizes the scheme while following number
after number.
The book and lyrics and part of the music
are by James O'Dea and A. Payson Caldwell,
who, though new in such ambitious work, show
that they possess the requirements to make a
success of whatever they undertake, and their
lyrics are full of humor, a humor that is refresh-
ing and catchy because drawn from a fount that
has never been tapped and emptied of its re-
sources. Mr. Klein is to be congratulated in hav-
ing these authors working with him on "My Polar
Pearl," and the outcome will without doubt meet
with the success which has always awaited Mr.
Klein's work.
D'ANNUNZIO TRIES MUSIC.
Gabriele d'Annunzio is certainly a restless
genius, and tries to prove his versatility in many
ways, and, it must be confessed, usually with
success. He is already an established poet, dra-
matist and prose writer, breaker of hearts and
man of fashion; but all this is evidently not
sufficient, and he has now turned his attention
to music. The latest news from Rome is that he
is to write the libretto of an opera and put it to
music as well.
The opera is said to be called, "How Happy
Would I Be with Either. Were the Other Dear
Charmer Away," and as the author is reported
to have had plenty of experience in such matters
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For the third time this season an English ar-
tiste has set New York a-singing. In England
Daisy James ranks as a Music Hall star with
Victoria, Tilley, Lloyd and the best of them. Al-
though a stranger in New York and handicapped
by the fact that she is singing on a big open
roof garden, her reception nightly is so cordial,
that she is delighted with America, and has al-
ready accepted a longer engagement than was
at first intended. "Anything On To-night?" is
the song which has set the whole town talking.
This is her piece de resistance, although she has
three other numbers, the titles of which are: "I
Want My Little Daisy," "Horse and Cart," and
"Everyone's in Love with Someone." Miss James
not only sings these songs inimitably, but works
them, impersonating true to life the character
she sings about in each case. She is booked for
over forty weeks in this country and Joseph W.
Stern & Co. have secured the exclusive control
and selling agency of all her English and Amer-
ican songs.
IMPORTANT STERN ANNOUNCEMENT.
An announcement was made this week by Jos.
W. Stern & Co., publishers, New York, to the
public in part as follows: "We sell our goods
direct only to department stores and dealers who
control their own departments. We will not sell
to those who lease their music departments to
any one publisher." This notice, gotten up in
poster style, expressing the firm's opinion of
methods alleged to be in vogue in places where
the "House of Hits" declare they will not sell,
and has been given wide distribution.
George L. Friedman, manager of the American
Music Stores, who w«.s out of New York arrang-
ing to open up another store, returned Tuesday.
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