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ing directors: Louis Dreyfus, Frederick Day,
Max Dreyfus and Jerome D. Kern.
THAT the Alliance Music Publishing Co. aver
they have secured the best ballad of the forth-
coming season. It is entitled "As We Listened
THAT although it is hardly a musical item, it to the Rustle of the Leaves," and is by the author
is reported that Wm. S. Devery, former chief of of "When the Evening Breeze is Sighing Home,
the New York police, has invented a new device Sweet Home."
to protect God-fearing citizens from robbery.
THAT our "Man on the Street," like the girl
THAT it is a pity he did not invent some sort
who "Couldn't Keep Away from the Ten-Cent
of a similar contrivance when he himself was Store," again went to see "Algeria" (Chas. K.
chief of police.
Harris) on Monday afternoon.
THAT what with Salome dances, "sheath gown"
THAT if only George Leon Moore, the tenor of
songs, and "The Naked Truth," our amusements the play, would learn to wear his spurs the right
are being stripped of their old-time enjoyment. way up, a load would be removed from that por-
THAT there are now two classes of vaudeville tion of the audience who knew how to sit astride
entertainments—the Salome kind, which is a a horse.
naked fact, and the sheath gown variety, which
THAT spurs or no spurs, "Algeria" is the very
is a bare possibility.
best thing of its kind that has seen the Broad-
THAT Sam H. Harris says that the music of
way lights in many a long day.
Victor Herbert's new fantastic opera, "Little
TJIAT "The Girls of Gottenberg," with the
Nemo" is little short of wonderful. Melville sweetest of all the girls, Miss Gertie Millar
Ellis has not yet been heard from on the subject, (apologies to Lionel Monckton), is going to stay
however.
in New York for a long, long time to come.
THAT "A Waltz Dream" (Continental Music • Chappell & Co. publish the music.
Co.) will shortly start on a lengthy road tour.
THAT Leo Feist is patting himself on the back
TiiAT it seems a pity E. T. Paull's "Homecom- that he has secured the American rights of "Ah!
ing March" was not ready to welcome the Ameri- Si Vous Voulez D'Lamour," Scotto's latest and
can athletes.
greatest chansonette.
THAT Edgar Selden, a man of more than aver-
THAT this ditty is already the rage of Europe.
age intelligence, should have paused before in- It will be renamed over here "If You Alone Were
flicting upon the public a song of the caliber of Mine," and the words are by the evergreen Felix
"Have You Seen My Pussy Cat?"
Feist.
THAT this sort of lyric neither tends to elevate
THAT the words "evergreen" must not be mis-
the public taste nor to heighten the respect of construed.
the community for the publishing fraternity.
THAT the "Mexico Musical," under the heading
THAT Jack Drislane, of the P. B. Haviland
"Fortunes from Songs" (Fortunas obtenidas con
forces, has just returned from a fishing trip.
canciones) tells even a more wonderful and a
THAT when asked by our "Man on the Street" more inaccurate story of music publishing than
how much bass he brought back he answered, our contemporary,- the New York Herald.
"None! We drank it all."
THAT after one or two of the wild wanderings
THAT T. B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, which have lately appeared in the latter sheet,
New York, music publishers, have been incorpor- this would appear impossible.
ated, having a capital of $24,000, with the follow-
THAT it is reported "The Three Twins" (M.
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DANSE DU PARAGUAY, by J. Valverde.
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LOVE ME, by F. Paolo Tosti.
3 Keys .
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Price 60 Cents
I HEAR YOU CALLING ME, by Chas. Marshall.
3 Keys
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Price 60 Cents
LITTLE TEDDY BEAR, GOOD NIGHT,
by Laura G. Lemon.
4 Keys
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Price 60 Cents
A THOUGHT, by Chas. J. Roberts.
2 Keys
XLhc Sensational
Success of Berlin
Witmark & Sons) is to visit London, after its
present successful engagement at the Herald
Square Theater.
THAT its managers would do well to consider
that a musical play founded on Mrs. Pacheco's
farce "Incog" and entitled "Tom, Dick and
Harry" was produced at the Duke of York's The-
ater, in the English metropolis, as far back as
19(0.
THAT "A Daughter of America," book and
lyrics by John Saunders, music by N. Harris
Ware, published by Jerome H. Remick, was seen
in Philadelphia on Monday night.
THAT the star of the occasion was "Countess"
Olga von Hatzfeldt, whoever that may be.
THAT an extended review of Gus Edwards' new
juvenile play, "School Days," will be given next
week. It will be produced at the Circle Theater,
New York, on Monday night.
THAT George M. Cohan has a new song in "The
American Idea" entitled "Sullivan." Whether
this is dedicated to "little" or "big" Tim is
problematical.
THAT we are told on the authority of a musical
paper that the "Pittsburg music trade is normal."
THAT anything "normal" emanating from Pitts-
burg these days is worthy of comment.
THAT by kind permission of our sportsmanlike
Governor Hughes, Mclntyre and Heath have
named their new musical comedy "The Steeple-
chaser."
THAT no publisher has yet been found to accept
the music publishing rights, for fear that he
should be charged with betting on a "sure
thing."
THAT a new march entitled "The Newly Weds"
has been thrust upon the world by Rocco Venuto,
through the well-known publishers, Thiebes-
Stierlin Co., of St. Louis.
THAT "Jack" Hazzard has written an interpo-
lated number for "The Girls of Gottenberg" en-
titled, if we remember rightly, "Queenie Was
There with Her Hair in a Braid" (published by
M. Witmark & Sons).
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Price 60 Cents
O FRAGRANT MIGNONETTE,
by Laura G. Lemon.
4 Keys
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Price 60 Cents
KASINO WALZER, by Victor Hollaender.
Piano Solo
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