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WITH THE CHICAGO PUBLISHERS.
Rothschild's Department Changes Hands—
Bryan Song in Demand—Sung at State Con-
vention—Harris Publications for Talking
Machines—Personal Items—Columbia Four
Featuring Witmark Music—Mr. McKinley
Writes Poem on Optimism.
(Special to The Review.)
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embodied his sunshine sentiments and inci-
dentally the names of two of the McKinley hits
in a sweet little "pome" entitled "Boost a Bit,"
which runs as follows:
BOOST A BIT.
Here, you discontented knocker,
""
Growlin' 'bout the country's ills;
Chloroform yer dismal talker ;
Take a course o" liver pills.
Stop yer durn kio-tee howlin'
"Love Jtules the World" is ii better song.
Don't sit in the. dumps a-srowlin",
Jump the roost—
Boost loud and long.
Chicago, July 3, 1908.
The Western Book & Stationery Co., who have
the sheet music department at the Fair, have
bought the sheet music department at Roths-
childs from Sol Bloom and will run both de-
partments in the future.
A very elaborate band arrangement of the
Thompson Music Co.'s Bryan Song will be played
July 8 at the Bismarck Garden. The Bryan Song,
which is the joint production of Alvord and Otis
Colburn, was sung at the Democratic State Con-
vention at Sumpter, S. C, by Rose Ivy, a talented
young woman, who came to our shores from New
Zealand several years ago. She was invited by
the South Carolina State Delegation to accom-
pany it to Denver and repeat her enthusiasm
rousing performance. The Bryan Song will also
be played at the National Convention by the Ken-
nedy and Horn bands, who accompany the Illi-
nois delegation to Denver.
"A Stubborn Cinderella," which is having a
big success at the New Princess Theater, and the
hits of which are published by Harris, has at-
tracted the attention of the "Canned music" man-
ufacturers. The Columbia Co. will bring out
"Love Me Just Because" and "I Have Lost My
Heart But I Don't Care" in both disc and cylin-
der record about July 15.
Leighton & Leighton, on their way from the
coast, spent a very enjoyable four weeks' stop
over at Wood River Valley, Ore., and are now
in Chicago conferring with their partner in the
Star Music Co., Tell Taylor, who, with his wife,
spent the past week at Wooster Lake, 111.
Paul Wezeman, who has charge of the band
and orchestra departments of Victor Kremer,
will leave next week for Michigan, where he
will spend his vacation.
The Columbia Four, who are in Chicago this
week, will feature "As Long as the World Rolls
On" (Witmark), and "Somebody Loves You
Dear" (Witmark), on the Keith & Proctor circuit.
William McKinley, president of the McKinley
Music Co., is an incorrigible optimist. He has
Publishers of comic operas, musical comedies
and similar works must have often been con-
fronted with the problem how to keep vocal
scor*es to a reasonable size. Especially does this
question become pressing when long and com-
plicated ensembles abound, necessitating a large
number of different voice parts. On the one
hand, the costs of engraving and printing such
music is an appreciable item, while, on the other
hand, it may be questioned whether amateurs,
who are the largest buyers of such scores, derive
much satisfaction from fumbling their way
through a piano accompaniment and half a
dozen or more chorus and solo parts above.
Often the "tunes," which are, of course, the chief
consideration in light music, do not appear in
those accompaniments; the average amateur
naturally skips such numbers, and passes on to
a song which he can more easily tackle.
In order to overcome these difficulties, Messrs.
Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., of London,
have repeated an experiment which was tried
with success several years ago. Their new
opera, "Butterflies," a musical adaptation of "The
Palace of Puck," was playing at the Apollo Thea-
tre, Shaftesbury avenue, and is particularly re-
plete with choral numbers and ensembles of
great length. These numbers are published with-
Gus Edwards' 1908 Hits
ANOTHER CHAS. K. HARRIS SONG
"SEE SAW,"
"THAT'S WHAT THE ROSE SAID TO ME,"
and th« greatest ballad in years
" H i WAITING FOR THE
SUMMERTIME AND YOU."
Specltl rates to the trade this month only.
GUS EDWARDS MUSIC PUB. CO.
1512 BROADWAY,
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NEW YORK
Fall In while the hands a-plnying
"Roll Me on the Roll-Away."
Ketch the step and skate along,
Stead o' pessimistic bray.
Drop your rag-time—do some rootin'.
Grab your horn, you cuss, and play
Every echo with yer tootiu".
Jump the roost
An' boost all dav.
REGARDING_VOCAL SCORES.
How the Problem of Keeping Them Within
Reasonable Size Have Been Overcome.
A Boat."
A Novelty That Will Sell. The Most
Original Ballad Ever Written.
Sold by your mutic jobber or direct from
the publisher
K HARRIS
31 W e 8 t 3 l 8 t St
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IV. n / \ I \ l \ . K > , NEW YORK
MEYER COHEN, Manager.
"ROSE IN THE BUD"
"HONEYBEES JUBILEE"
BARN DANCE
37 West 17th Street, New York
ACCESSIONS TO REMICK LINE.
As recently announced in The Review, Jerome
H. Remick & Co. have secured all of George
Rosey's recent compositions, which hitherto he
has personally controlled. These include George
Rosey's "Universal Piano Collection," "The Mo-
tor March" and "Victorious Eagle."
Jerome H. Remick has also secured the fol-
lowing operas and musical comedies: "Too Many
Wives," by Chas. Horwitz and Fred'k Bowers;
"A Daughter of America," by John Saunders
and N. Harris Ware; "A Yankee Mandarin," by
Edward Paulton and Reginald deKoven; "A
Broken Idol," by Harry Williams and Egbert
Van Alstyne, also the music to "Sunshine Lane,"
a vaudeville act by Ned Wayburn.
DEALERS
It Will Be Worth Your While
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I'd Tom The World
for You Hy Love
By MIGNON ZIEGFELD
By BENJ. RICHMOND
composer of
A high class ballad that will be heard
as long as songs are sung
IT WILL LIVE BECAUSE IT HAS LIFE
DOROTHY FORSTER
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
Mr. Verner J. Cavers, a Montrealer, has re-
ceived a check for $1,500 from a Montreal music
firm for a new song written by him, says the
Montreal Star. This is said to be the first time
a Canadian music house has paid so large a
sum for a song, and is a proof of Mr. Cavers'
growing popularity as a song writer. Would that
the "Montreal music firm" would move New
Yorkwards. We need the money.
Try Over This Song —
AN IRRESISTIBLE
Four Keys, B&, C, D*», Eb
HIS KIND NEEDED HERE.
"A Man,
A lVlaid,
A. Moon,
OUR LATEST ENGLISH
BALLAD SUCCESS
Music by
out the voice p a r t s , b u t with t h e words above
the piano p a r t which will contain t h e melodic
outline. I n this ingenious way t h e a m a t e u r de-
rives enjoyment from t h e perusal of the score,
while t h e words give a clue t o t h e situations.
Other firms have also felt this heavy and, to a
certain extent, unproductive outlay in engraving
long a n d complicated vocal ensembles. Chappell
& Co. were compelled t o except t h e vocal score
of "Les Merveilleuse" from their revised prices,
while we a r e informed t h a t Mr. Coote, when a t
the head of Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., a t first re-
fused to engrave t h e 33-pages-long Finale, Act 1,
of " T h e Belle of New York," a n d only did so to
oblige t h e composer, Gustav Kerker.
It m a y be objected t h a t t h e a t r i c a l companies
rehearsing will n o t be able t o use scores pub-
lished in t h e above manner. T h a t is quite true,
says T h e Music Trades Review, of London. A t
the same time, t h e requirements of professional
companies have never paid for t h e production
of an opera. T h e result of t h e experiment is in-
teresting, a n d it would n o t be s u r p r i s i n g to find
other firms following this example.
" Dance of the Honeybees "
WILLIS WOODWARD 6 CO., Inc.
The Great Eastern Music Publishers
1431 Broadway, New York
1193 Broadway, New York
Keith and Proctor Theatre Building
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