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THE: MUSIC TRADE:
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business and pleasure this week, and singing York, have arranged to give a reception and din-
"You Are the Ideal of My Dreams" at Young's ner in his honor on the evening of June 1, at
Ocean Pier. Mrs. Morrell is looking well.
The Weather Not to Be the Cause, but Seven
Hotel Jefferson. Following the dinner a musical
Maurice Shapiro and Mrs. Shapiro greatly en- program will be presented. The affair is in the
Rival Music Stores Will Make Things Hum
joyed a performance of "The Girl in Waiting" at hands of a number of our prominent citizens.
at That Resort—Ten-Cent Stores Competing
the Apollo Theater last Saturday night. The
for Business, with Woolworth at Last in
Alfred G. Robyn, composer of "The Yankee
catch line of the piece is, "I love you, I love you." Consul" and of numerous popular ballads consid-
Line—Some Boardwalk Chat.
It is repeated about 25 times during the four acts. erably above the average, among these being
Mr. Shapiro started up to take notice about 16 "Answer" and "You," is to be organist at the
(Special to The Review.)
times out of the 25, thinking that Mr. Van Buren Tompkins Avenue Church, in Brooklyn. It is re-
Atlantic City, May 21, 1910.
We are having some 57 varieties of weather was going to sing the chorus of "Ideal of My ported that he is engaged in writing the music
down here, but are beginning to get used to them. Dreams." At the finish Mr. Shapiro said, "That for a new opera for Henry W. Savage, and that
song was all the show needed."
when this is completed he will undertake similar
The. month of May in Atlantic City is very ex-
citing, however, almost as exhilarating as spend-
Henry I. Marshall, manager here for Shapiro, work for Charles B. Dillingham.
ing the summer in New Rochelle.
had the honor of being the first in the water, tak-
ing his initial dip on May 19. Last year the same
There will be several things besides the
PUSHING HAVILAND PRINTS IN WEST.
individual, yours truly, was also first to assail the
weather that will bring storms when summer
HENRY I. MARSHALL.
finally comes. No less than seven music stores briny.
Richard Nugent, of the F. B. Haviland Pub-
will be in full swing shortly after this goes to
lishing Co., is now in the West on the regular
press. The last to open will be Remick's. Their
business trip that he takes at this season of the
scheduled opening is for Saturday, the 21st, but it
year. Although in the past he closed some large
hardly looks like it now.
General Manager of Shapiro's at Work on a orders for the Haviland prints we understand
Song Comedy to be Called "The Suburban-
that this spring he has been even more success-
Jos. Morris, of Philadelphia, has captured the
ites"—Interpolations Will be a Feature.
ful than usual, his sales having been of a most
best stand at the corner of St. James place and
satisfactorily large volume. Mr. Nugent will
the Boardwalk, just outside the Old Vienna Cafe.
The store is sadly handicapped, however, by lack
Edgar Selden, general manager for Shapiro, probably return to New York next week, after
of width. On the opposite corner is Remick's
has affirmed for The Review the truth of the re- being away nearly a month. In his absence, Mr.
place. This alone looks interesting there.
port, published last week, that he is at work on Haviland, the head of the firm, has been literally
As one goes along the Boardwalk a few steps a song comedy to be produced next season. Mr. on the jump during all of each day, having to
farther one bumps into McCrorey's 5-and-10-cent Selden adds that this will have been his first of- look after the details to which Mr. Nugent ordi-
store, with a window full of sheet music and dem- fense at playwriting in four years. He is well narily attends, besides attending to the executive
onstrators hard at work. A few steps more and
known as a song writer nowadays, and is the affairs, which necessarily fall to his care. Mr.
Haviland reports that business is keeping up
Woolworth's 5-and-l 0-cent store looms up with an- author of a number of very successful songs. In
other big display of music. This, by the way, is years past he was a regular contributor to the well, holding as well as could be expected at this
Woolworth's first venture into the sheet music columns of various journals on musical topics, time, when publishers generally are noting signs
field, something for which sales managers of
and more recently he has written able articles on of the inevitable summer dulness, the decided im-
provement upon which the firm entered last fall.
various publishing houses have been keeping matters pertaining to music publishing.
their eyes peeled for some weeks past.
They
His new comedy will be called "The Suburban-
have been waiting a long while, in fact, for him ites." Originally he had intended to use the
NEW FIRM TO HANDLE SHEET MUSIC.
to get in line with his competitors. I wonder title, "The Commuters," but found that James
whose reel will land the big fish.
Forbes, author of "The Chorus Lady," had named
The Sanders & Stayman Co., of Washington, D.
A block away in the same direction, at 1633 his new piece "The Commuters." Mr. Selden's C, whose incorporation was recently reported in
Boardwalk, one comes to Shapiro's. Beautiful work will be a comedy with music, and he will The Review, with George B. Kennedy as presi-
dent, have a sheet music department, in addition
pictures of white and nile green, with glass cases produce most of the lyrics. These will be used in
to pianos, talking machines and other goods ap-
filled with attractive seashore novelties, make interpolated songs, and, as Mr. Selden is a firm
propriate to the trade.
one of the finest stores in the country.
This advocate of interpolations, it is to be expected
store Shapiro proposes to maintain the year that a liberal policy will be adopted toward these
round. Shapiro will open his other store, that in his play. It is suspected, furthermore, that
at 1029 Boardwalk, on June 15. Active prepara- Shapiro will publish the music. "The Commut-
tions are now in progress to make this store ers" will be produced next October, the deal for
Irish Cowboy Song. By Williami and Van Alstyne.
equal to the other in style and beauty. In the its production having already been closed.
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Exposition Mr. Shapiro also has a small depart-
ment.
Our Comic Specialty.
By Jerome and Schwartz.
PRIZE OF $1,000 FOR STATE SONG.
Last Sunday a group stood outside of Young's
Missouri Contest Will Remain Open Until
Hotel chatting gayly about a certain automobile
September 30—Reception and Dinner in St.
trip that everyone knows about. They were
A Rousing Hit.
By Williams and Van Alstyne.
Mose Gumble, Fred E. Belcher, Leo. Feist, Victor
Louis Planned for Composer Alfred G. Robyn.
Kewell (who is here to take charge of the Rem-
ick store) and Ben Harris.
(Special to The Review.)
Jerome and Schwartz' Rosiest "Rose" Song.
Frank Morrell, the tenor, is here combining
St. Louis, Mo., May 24, 1910.
Gov. Hadley and the members of the State
song committee have prepared a set of rules to
Novelty Waltz Song.
By Bryan and Gum We.
govern the contest in which a prize of $1,000 will
be awarded to the person who produces the best
Mr. Dealer have you
State song. The contest will be declared open in
a few days, to close on September 30. This will
got this one ?
allow a little more than four months for the com-
HI)
posers to complete their work. The manuscripts
must be forwarded to W. H. Pommer, chairman,
at Columbia, Mo. It is expected that the manu-
SOME NOVELTY SONG
scripts now on hand, which arrived before the
Published by
rules were formulated, will be returned to their
J. P. HINCTGEN PUB. CO.
authors.
LA MOTTE, IA.
St. Louis friends of Alfred G. Robyn, the well-
known composer, who is soon to move to New
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