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bert, Sousa, and W. T. Francis, would be very
rich men if they could collect the royalties due
them for the sale of their music abroad. Their
songs, even those of two years ago, are being
sung and played all over the continent. In
France it is very amusing to hear the orchestras
murder our ragtime melodies. They make them
sound like Spanish gypsy music."
The Italian publisher, Sonzogno, paid $5,000
for a prize libretto by Fausto Salvatori, and
asked Mascagni to set it to music, in the hope
of securing another "Cavalleria Rusticana."
Mascagni accepted it, although he admitted at
once that he was not particularly interested.
He has now definitely declined the'task. When
Salvatori asked on what ground, Mascagni re-
plied: "I cannot set to music a system of
philosophy." The plain truth is that Mascagni
has for years been so unsuccessful with all of
his operas that he cannot run any extra risk with
an unsympathetic libretto. He is the unfortunate
victim of the ludicrous over-praise he received
for his first opera, which led thousands to expect
more of him than he can possibly give.
SUCCESSES THAT SUCCEED.
Maude Raymond, in her song hit, "Somebody's
Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone," has
scored one better, if that were possible than in
"Bill Simmons." In the Shubert production,
"The Gay White Way," in Philadelphia, Miss
Raymond brought down the house. "Somebody's
Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone" is
expected to sweep the country equal or in ad-
vance of Miss Raymond's former successes.
Lotta Faust, the little dainty soubrette with
the Lew Fields All Stars Co., is reaching the
very highest point in her career in "When You
Steal a Kiss or Two." The song goes almost
of itself, and fits Miss Faust's temperament like
a glove. She is an entertainer that has the
whole audience with her whenever she occupies
the center of the stage.
Cecelia Loftus, in "The Lancers," is making
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good with George Spink's "Voodoo Man" and
"Fairies," and her inimitable powers of mimicry-
enable her to grasp the hidden, underlying
features of the songs, and interpret them as
she well knows how. Miss Loftus has advanced
greatly in her art and never has she been heard
to better advantage than in these two songs.
Mr. Spink could not have done better work had
he written them for her especially.
Eva Tanguay, at the Victoria, is creating an
extra breeze and causing her audiences to won-
der how she does it, in the song "Does It Pay,"
by Lennox and Sutton. Miss Tanguay, who is
often compared to a whirlwind, has a way and
a style entirely her own, and has gained suc-
cess where many others fall short of it.
Clifton Crawford, at the New York Theatre,
New York, is repeating his former successes in
his new song, "Martha Gray." Mr. Crawford
gained renown through his song "Nancy Brown,"
several years ago, and his new subject he has
treated in a decidedly novel and new way, so
every time he sings the song, it goes big.
"Martha Gray" is full of humor and fun, and is
the kind one wants to whistle after hearing it
the first time. M. Witmark & Sons, the publish-
ers of the new hits, are naturally much gratified
with the success attending them.
SCORES OF SONGS TURNED LOOSE.
In these days of popular prices for popular
music fortune-making has passed out of vogue.
Scores of new songs are turned loose every
month. Some of them remain long on the deal-
er's shelves while others attain short-lived and
often undeserved success, says a writer in a
Detroit, Mich., paper. Popular music has passed
through several stages of development. In its
earliest days the sentimental ballad found the
quickest favor. Then followed the "coon" song,
rag-time, another reign of the sentimental or-
der, songs of the Western plains and Indian bal-
lads. Now the ridiculous variety seems to have
found its own.
With the increased demand for popular songs
the number of song writers and music publishers
has grown until the country is fairly flooded
with cheap music—cheap both in quality and
price. Once in a while some of the writers of
light opera, notably Victor Herbert, and a few
others, send out something that passes the more
critical as being worthy of being classed in some-
thing better than the popular variety, but the
great mass of popular songs meet the fate they
deserve—a few weeks or months of "rage" and
then oblivion.
America almost can be said to have gone
crazy over popular music. The theatrical pro-
moters, who are among the first to observe the
trend of the times, must clearly realize this
for the announcement is made that five hun-
dred new musical shows will have been launched
before the season is very far advanced, and that
the total number of musical productions on the
road this winter will exceed that of any other
year in theatrical history.
"Lazy Moon," "When Bob White Is Whistling
In the Meadow," "When the Evening Breeze Is
Sighing Home, Sweet Home," "When the Snow-
birds Cross the Valley," "My Gal Sal," "Hymns
of the Old Church Choir," "I Like Your Way,"
"When the Sunset Turns the Ocean's Blue to
Gold," "Sugar Babe," "After They Gather the
Hay," "In the Golden Autumn Time, My Sweet
Elaine," "The Last Rose of Summer is the
Sweetest Song of All," "My Very Own," "It's De-
lightful to Be Married."
The immense strides made by this enterpris-
ing firm recently, not only in the publication of
popular songs, but as publishers of the suc-
cessful musical plays from the pens of fore-
most composers, has placed them in an eminent
and unique position.
FRED DAY'S "EXPERIENCES.'
In a recent interview Fred Day, manager of
the American branch of Francis, Day & Hunter,
and himself a music writer of considerable note,
when asked by a London paper for his experience
regarding song "plugging" as practised here,
among other things said: "Music successes are
such an attraction in America that the managers
of a department store will actually give an order
for many thousand copies to a publisher, pay-
ing full trade price, and then advertise a cut-
rate sale—selling twenty-five-cent music at seven,
eight or nine cents, knowing that by this means,
although selling at a loss, they will draw such
a huge crowd in their stores that they will be
amply rewarded by the purchases customers will
make in other departments." As the poet says:
"Can such things be, and like a summer cloud
o'ercome us?"
HAVILAND'S NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Among the new publications from the P. B.
Haviland Pub. Co. are: "Won't You Be My
Honey," "Since Arrah Wanna Married Barney
Carney," "Take Me Where There's a Big Brass
Band," "In Monkey Land," and the big hit—
"Arrah Wanna."
Nagle and Adams and Ida May have added "In
Monkey Land," the new jungle song, to their
act. This is another of Morse and Drislane's big
hits.
Alice Jennings is singing "Nobody's Little
Girl," "Arrah Wanna" and "The Good Old U.
S. A."
MONARCH MUSICAL CO. INCORPORATED.
The Monarch Music Co. was incorporated with
the Secretary of the State of New York on
Thursday, to compose and publish music with a
capital of $20,000. Incorporators: Wm. W.
Ragsdale, 219 West 89th street; Louis M. Burt,
226 West 113th street; Harry J. Gough, 163 East
89th street, all of New York.
Jay Witmark, of M. Witmark & Sons, New
York, sailed on the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria for
Hamburg, Germany, Thursday. He is going prin-
cipally for rest and the sea air, and will be back
in three weeks.
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