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VOL. X L VI. No. 2 1 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, May 23, 1908,
At a meeting of the House Committee on Pat-
ents, held on Monday last, it was decided that no
new copyright law would be enacted at this ses-
sion of Congress.
The drafting of a new copyright bill was dele-
gated to a sub-committee of seven members with
instructions to report to the full committee early
in the next session.
and distinction. Prior to the great earthquake
she was the prima donna at the Tivoli Theater,
San Francisco, and when the composer Mascagni
conducted his opera, "Cavalleria Rusticana," at
this house she was the only American in the
cast, and as "Santuzza" scored a triumph which
even the famous composer was not slow to admit
when he himself called her before the curtain
to share his applause.
Caro Roma is at work on a number of new
compositions, which no doubt will grace the Wit-
mark catalog in the near future.
CARP ROMA.
WITMARK COMEDY A SUCCESS.
WITH THE CHICAGO PUBLISHERS.
NO COPYRIGHT CHANGE
Hugo Wigale Reports Improved Conditions in
the West—Will Rossiter's Songs Popular in
Vaudeville—Many Artists Using Kremer's
Publications—George Evans a Baseball
"Fan"—A New Campaign Song^Other Pub-
lishing News from the "Windy City."
At Present Session of Congress.
(Special to The Review.)
Review Office, 156 Wabash Avenue,
Chicago, 111., May 16, 1908.
Hugo Wigale, general salesman for A. H. Goet-
ting, returned this week from a trip to the coast.
Mr. Wigale says he finds the business outlook
better in the West and business picking up all
along the line. Ben Brostowicz, assistant to Mr.
Fuchs up to about six weeks ago, is now inter-
ested in a metalized flower business and is rep-
resenting his concern in western territory. Mr.
Brostowicz says he finds his new venture an im-
provement over the music line.
Several well-known vaudeville artists are now
exploiting Will Rossiter's songs here:
Red-
path's "Napanee" is at the Olympic; Lillian Hart
and company are using "My Mariutch Come
Back to Me" and "Wish Me Good Luck on My
Journey; "Happy" Jack Gardner is singing with
marked success, "Somebody Lied."
H. F. Chandler, of the National Music Co., re-
turned this week from a trip to Indianapolis and
Richmond, Ind.
Garden City Trio are using Kremer's "Morn-
ing, Cy" at the Olympic this week, and Kremer's
latest coon song, "Baby Talk" is being featured
by Fogarty & Addington at the Haymarket.
George Evans, the well-known minstrel and
song writer, appears to be also a baseball enthu-
siast. He is offering a $500 gold cup for this
season's champion batter, the contest being lim-
ited to the American and National leagues.
A forerunner in the campaign song line has
reached Chicago and is entitled "Line Up for
Bryan." The cover claims it to be the battle
song of the Democracy.
The "Sunday closing" proposition, which is
now being tried in the courts here, has furnished
the inspiration for a song entitled "Don't Close
Up the Saloons in the Land of the Free."
A college song book for Northwestern Univer-
sity is being compiled by Carl Beecher of the
School of Music and C. S. Stratton, under the
direction of President Harris, Dean Lutkin of
the School of Music, and Prof. J. S. Clark, of
the University.
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Versatile Composer Who Has Signed With M.
Witmark & Sons—Some Successes by the
Author of "Violets."
So many of our best composers are under ex-
clusive contract to write for M. Witmark & Sons
that the signing by them of any new composer,
however well known, causes but little comment.
However, when it is said that Madame Caro
Roma has signed a contract for a long term of
years with this house it becomes a matter of
more than passing interest.
Madame Roma is the author of many well-
known compositions, prominent among them
being "Violets," "Resignation," "The Golden
Chain," "Love's Sacrifice" and a song cycle, "The
MME. CARA ROMA.
Wandering One," embodying the following num-
bers: "Absence," "The Lament," "Doubt Not,"
"The Prayer," "The Letter" and "The Return."
This cycle is already in the repertoire of many
of our prominent singers.
It would be obviously impossible to give a
complete list of the hundred and one songs which
this talented lady has written. As a mere slip
of a girl of five or six years she composed a
song which, marvelous to relate, enjoyed con-
siderable popularity. Her first great success was
"Violets," which is known to every music lover
throughout the country. Madame Roma is well
equipped to write high-class music, as she has
known the practical side of the concert and op-
eratic stage, having adorned both with credit
"The Gay Musician" a Comic Opera in Two
Acts—Book and Lyrics by Messrs. Seidle and
Campbell—Music by Julian Edwards—Pub-
lished by M. Witmark & Sons.
As a musician, Julian Edwards can be com-
pared to the little girl in our childhood's lore,
who, "when she was good was very, very good,
but when she was bad she was horrid." Following
so closely on the heels of "The Girl and the Gov-
ernor," a musical production obviously written
to order, "The Gay Musician," produced at Wal-
lack's Theatre, New York on Monday night last,
proved to be particularly grateful and comfort-
ing. Indeed, there can be no doubt that Mr. Ed-
wards has again struck his gait, as the entire
score of the new play shows a painstaking and
musicianly desire to elevate musical comedy
into the realms of comic opera. "The Gay Mu-
sician," obviously here to spend the summer
with us, is sure of a cordial welcome, being full
of light and tuneful numbers, showing an in-
genuity in their musical arrangement which does
the composer the greatest credit. A mother-in-
law-quartette in the first act is specially worthy
of mention, and a scandal song, entitled "A Cup
of Tea," is a decided novelty. One number, how-
ever, supposed to represent a stage rehearsal,
should be eliminated without delay, as heaven
knows there are sufficient skeletons in the mu-
sical comedy closet without baring them to pub-
lic gaze. The book, by our good friend Edward
Seidle, is far better than the average of its kind,
and will no doubt prove to be one of his best
"properties."
The cast, with one or two notable exceptions,
is both excellent and adequate. Walter Percival
played the tenor role in a dainty and ladylike
fashion with a foreign accent which in spite of
the writer's somewhat extended knowledge of the
Continent of Europe he signally failed to localize.
The music, a full list of which will be given
next week in our "Music of the Month," is not
likely to remain long on the retailer's shelves, as
its general excellence will certainly insure for it
a ready sale. It is published by M. Witmark
& Sons.
T H E MAN ON THE STBEET.
"The Merry-Go-Round" at the Gus Edwards'
Music Hall has developed into a really enter-
taining show.
The B. F. Wood Co., of East 17th street, have
a new song, entitled "My Violet," which is de-
cidedly pretty.