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V O L . X L V I I . N o . 9 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Aye., New York, August 29,1908.
WITH THE CHICAGO PUBLISHERS.
Vaudeville Artists Looking for New Songs—•
Summer Parks Make Public Acquainted With
Music—Some of the Popular Selections—
Miller Music Co. Preparing Slides—What
Other Publishers Are Contributing to the
List of Hits—Victor Kremer Co.'s New Pub-
lication.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., August 22, 1908.
Chicago at the present time is alive with
vaudeville artists who are looking for songs with
which to feature their acts, and during the fall
season many songs just published will be tried
out. by them.
The summer season has given the city much to
be thankful for in the way of music at the vari-
ous amusement parks, which during the past
couple of years have become so numerous.
People nowadays have no excuse to offer for not
being able to hear good music, as a small 10-
cent piece spent at White City, Rivecview or
the parks will enable anybody to hear such
artists as Liberati, Creatore, Phillipi and others.
Besides regular programs being given, requests
for special pieces to be played are readily grant-
ed, so that one can hear almost any kind of
music he desires.
Requests for music published in Chicago have
been frequent, indeed, and there is scarcely a
band or orchestra in this city that has not been
asked to play "I Wish I Had a Girl" (Thomp-
son); "Come Back, My Sailor Boy" (Miller);
"The Moon Won't Tell on You" (Kremer), and
others.
Nat D. Mann, western manager of Mr. Witmark
& Sons, spent the past week with the company
in New York. He is expected home to-day.
Webb Rockefeller Miller, of the Miller Music
Publishing Co., together with Mr. Phillips, of
the Genre Transparency Co., spent a day in the
country last week taking photos for sets of
slides to be used with "In the Happy Days of
Yore" (which will be put on at the Orpheum
in about two weeks), and "A Castle in Dream-
land for You, Dear." The sittings and situa-
tions were posed by professionl people, and the
photos of the wild country were so beautiful
that Mr. Phillips enthused and said that they
were about the best that he had ever taken,
which, by the way, is saying something.
The run of "A Stubborn Cinderella" (Harris)
at the new Princess Theatre continues unabated
and the music for the popular production is ex-
periencing a large sale.
Miss Clara Kennedy, of the Victor Kremer Co.,
is spending her vacation at Savannah, 111.
"A Broken Idol" (Remick) opens at the Whit-
ney Theater to-night, and from all indications
and the advance sale of seats it promises to
"make good."
"Some Day," the big hit of the Star Music Co.,
is steadily gaining in popularity and promises
to break records for the company.
A song that is highly spoken of by those who
have heard it is "Merry Mary, Marry Me," of
the Modern Music Publishers. This number and
others by the company are being used exten-
sively by professional people in various cities.
Pritzi Scheff will be seen in the "Prima Donna"
at the Studebaker Theater following "The Top
of the World" (Witmark). This high-class musi-
cal production is the joint work of Victor Her-
bert and Henry B'.ossom, and if it comes any-
where near their record-breaking production,
"The Red Mill," it will surely be a winner.
The Victor Kremer Co. are publishing a folio
number, "The Crescent No. 2," for violin, piano
and cornet, which will contain sixteen numbers.
The first of these already out are "The Waltz
Dream," "Love Dream Waltzes" and "Under the
Double Eagle." The arrangements for the band
and orchestra were made by Paul Wezeman.
"My Lolla Loo" and "Some Old Sweet Dream
of You," by B. Dolores Stonecipher, are meeting
with a great demand in the trade, and requests
for them in the music stores are heard re-
peatedly.
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LONDON PUBLISHERS MEET.
At the annual meeting of the London Music
Publishers' Association, held recently at 27 Re-
gent street, S. W., the following gentlemen were
elected officers and committee for the ensuing
year: W. W. A. Elkin, chairman and treas-
urer; W. Hammond, auditor, and the following
committee: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd.;
Augener, Ltd.; Boosey & Co., Breitkopf & Haer-
tel, Chappell & Co., Ltd.; Cramer & Co., Ltd.;
Hammond & Co., Hatzfeld & Co., J. H. Larway,
Phillips & Page, Reynolds & Co. and Ricordi
& Co.
"FLUFFY RUFFLES" OPENS IN BUFFALO.
(Special to The Review.)
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1908.
A crowded house witnessed the first perform-
ance this evening at the Star Theater of the new
musical comedy, "Fluffy Ruffles," by John J.
A. E. WIER ON BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
McNally, music by Jerome D. Kern (published
In the opinion of Albert B. Wier, manager of by T. B. Harms & Francis Day Co.). The
the Most Famous Publishing Co., the season of production was most elaborate, and of twenty-
1908-09 is going to be a good one for the publish- two musical numbers the majority received a
ers. In an interview with our "Man on the generous measure of applause. The comedy will
Street," Mr. Wier said: "I believe the effects of be shortly seen at the Criterion Theater, New
the financial panic are pretty nearly exhausted, York.
and that shortly things will resume a normal
condition. This country is too big and too rich
FOREIGN ROYALTIES FOR SOUSA.
in its natural products and in its manufactur-
John Philip Sousa received the other day a
ing interests to lie prostrate long under any
blow, no matter how severe, and as soon as the check from Paris for $2,900, which sum repre-
holidays are over, the public will begin to buy, sents royalties collected and paid him by the
not only music, but everything else. Personally, French Society of Authors and Composers for
I must say, that in spite of the fact that so many performances of his works in France during
"calamity howlers" have told me during the past. the season 1907-8. Of course, Sousa has made a
few months that I commenced basiness at an un- large fortune at home out of his marches and
propitious time, I have been exceedingly pleased operettas, as well as with his band.
with the sale of my first folio, 'Famous Medleys
"THE SPANISH ONION SONG."
of Famous Songs.'
"Of course, I realize that a great many dealers.
Says that authority on onions, the Cleveland
—personal friends of mine—gave me liberal or-
Plain Dealer:
ders to show their confidence in me, but in many
"How many people would guess the meaning of
cases I have had positive proof that the folio has
a 'Spanish onion song'?
found a place of its own among music collections,
"This strange phrase—one of the many to be
and, moreover, has made good in the fullest sense
found in the professionals' dictionary of slang—
of the word. I shall have to print my second edi-
is used to denote the music hall ballad, and owes
tion of 10,000 copies shortly and abcut half of
its origin to the fact that no self-respecting mem-
this is already taken up for orders to be filled
ber of its race would be without a pathetic refer-
in September.
ence to 'dear old mother' or 'somebody's sweet-
"In about two weeks, I am introducing another
heart far away.' Now, pathos draws tears, and
new folio of entirely different character, which I
so do onions. The rest is obvious."
believe will prove to be a big seller for the reason
While The Review has no authoritative dic-
that it is a better planned collection and is more
tionary on the slang of "Tin-Pan-Alley," it can
value for the money than the retail trade has
bear out the statement of the Plain Dealer that
ever been offered before.
"onion" songs are almost as plentiful as "lemons"
"I ought to ask you to express my appreciation
in the same line. Ask the department stores.
to the trade in general for their hearty support of
my new enterprise and I shall endeavor in every
DEATH OF MR. SOUSA'S MOTHER.
way to promote the sale of the 'Most Famous'
series by putting out real salable collections and
(Speciiil to The Review.)
doing all in my power to keep them out of the
Washington, D. C, August 25, 1908.
hands of those who are ruining the trade by
Mrs. Elizabeth Sousa, mother of John Philip
price-cutting."
Sousa, bandmaster, died of old age at her home
here, after a decline of three months. Relatives
We have received from the York Music Co. a do not know the whereabouts of her son, John
really beautiful number entitled "If Tears Were Philip Sousa, who is at present taking a short
holiday.
Pearls," which will be reviewed later.