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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, February 12, 1910
THE REVIEW HEARS
THAT two more catalogs were offered for sale
this week by that many music, publishing
houses.
THAT negotiations for taking over one of them
are now pending, the facts of which will be an-
nounced next week, if they do not appear else-
where in The Review to-day.
THAT music printers have had cause of late
to get impatient at helping the goods of some
publishing firms to market without any signs
of anyone "coming across."
THAT they are thus beginning to feel some
of the sensations which music trade journals
have enjoyed for quite a while, if not longer.
THAT "The Prince of Sinners" will be the
title of a musical comedy which will open the
new theater, to be called the National, which
Weber & Rush are to build on Forty-second
street, within a block of Broadway.
THAT the new piece will,be written by Edgar
Smith and A. Baldwin Sloane and presumably,
therefore, will be published by Chas. K. Harris.
THAT Chas. K. Harris, Meyer Cohen, with' the
firm's attorney and two or three kindred
spirits, visited the moving picture houses last
week to hear "In the City Where Nobody Cares"
and see the slides.
THAT afterward they visited Maxim's, Jack's,
Little Billie's and other places "down the line,"
their appearance being the signal for Harris
music to be put on tap in each place.
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THAT Mr. Harris the next day was crooning
the strain of a newly improvised ballad, a
pathetic one, which he called "O, My Head!"
THAT "The Arcadians" (Chappell & Co.) be-
gan its fourth week at the Liberty Theater with
a continuation of the indications of an epoch-
making success which marked its opening.
THAT it is a long time since the ten dramatic
critics of the ten leading New York papers have
agreed about anything, and still longer since
they have been unanimous in praising a musical
comedy as they were in the case of "The Ar-
cadians."
THAT Philip Kornheiser, formerly sales mana-
ger of the Trebuhs Publishing Co., is consider-
ing a deal looking to his joining forces with the
Gotham-Attucks Music Co.
THAT David Rose wants us to mention the
fact that he has joined the professional depart-
ment of the Ted Snyder Co. All right, David,
we'll mention it some day.
THAT Bernard Nove is looking for a practical
music man to join him on a profit-sharing basis.
THAT "The Cellarer," as heard in Chicago,
has seventeen musical numbers, pleasingly
varied; also singable and possessing that lively
sense of color that makes songs attractive.
THAT a new musical production has been an
operatic sensation this week at the Montauk
Theater, Brooklyn—"The Merry Widow," offered
by Henry W. Savage—said to contain an espe-
cially promising waltz.
THAT several Brooklynites said they had
heard that the piece had really been presented
elsewhere before opening in Long Inland.
THAT if the "trend toward consolidation," as
they call it in Wall Street, continues to be fol-
lowed in the music publishing business the tinift
may yet come when a few strong publishers
will control the field and will be able to fix
prices, unpestered by the little fellows.
THAT, although the millennium is always to
be desired, it is not likely to come in the above
respect in time to be enjoyed by anyone younger
than the heirs and consigns of the present pub-
lishing personnel.
NEW WITMARK MANAGER IN CHICAGO.
Ted S. Barron, Who Has Been Appointed to the
Position, Is Familiar with All Branches of
Sheet Music Trade.
Ted S. Barron, who was recently, appointed
manager of the Chicago branch offices and sales-
rooms of M. Witmark & Sons, is well known as
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
GUS EDWARDS HAS GONE BROKE.
Also Mrs. Gus and the Gus Edwards Music
Publishing Co.—Bankruptcy Petitions Filed.
Petitions in bankruptcy were filed Tuesday
last against Gus Edwards, composer of popular
songs and theatrical producer, the Gus Edwards
Music Publishing Co., publishers of popular
sheet music, and the wife of Gus Edwards,
Lillian A. Edwards, manager of vaudeville acts,
all of 1531 Broadway. Stern, Singer & Barr,
attorneys for various creditors, filed the peti-
tions and Judge Holt appointed Theron G.
Strong receiver for the Gus Edwards Music Pub-
lishing Co., with a bond of $1,000, as it was
stated that the assets consist of 150,000 copies
of music worth $1,500, fixtures $500 and pianos
amount not given. The petitioning creditors of
Gus Edwards are Augustin J. Powers, $300 loan;
White Studio, $350 photos, and Harry Rapp, $50
money advanced. The petitioning creditors of the
Cus Edwards Music Publishing Co. are Leo Ed-
wards, $3,235, royalties; Powers Photo Engrav-
ing Co., $47, photos; Alfred L. Simpson, $163,
merchandise.
The petitioning creditors of
Lillian A. Edwards are Emanuel Weingreen,
S300, merchandise; Manuel Chappelle, $350,
money loaned, and Harry Rapp, $111, commis-
sion. In all three cases it was alleged that they
are insolvent, and on February 7 admitted in
writing inability to pay their debts. Gus Ed-
wards Music Publishing Co. was incorporated
Sept. 9, 1905, with capital stock of $10,000. Stern,
Singer & Barr said that the liabilities of the
company are about $30,000 and assets probably
$3,000. Business has been poor for some time.
The sheriff recently received executions for $381
against Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. It is said they
have endorsed notes for the company.
NEW FIRM NAME IS ADOPTED.
a composer. He has also achieved considerable
success at various times as a singer in vaude-
ville and elsewhere. He has been identified
with the music publishing business, in one way
or another, for the last twelve years.
Mr. Barron left New York last week for Chi-
cago, where he has taken the place of Nat D.
Mann, who managed the Witmarks' affairs in
Chicago for eleven years past and is now con-
nected with another firm. Mr. Barron's ability,
education, achievements and experience fully
justify the Witmarka In their choice, for not
only is he a successful composer but he is thor-
oughly familiar with the sheet music trade in
all its branches, having once conducted a music
publishing business on his own account. He en-
joys the good will of a host of friends in the
theatrical profession, and although he has left
a large number of friends and well-wishers in
New York, Mr. Barron will undoubtedly find
many others at the scene of his future labors.
The Head Music Publishing Co. are now doing
business under that name, their official desig-
nation having been changed to such from that
of the Head-Westman Publishing Co. The
change went info effect on Thursday of this
week, the necessary permission having been
granted by the Supreme Court some weeks ago.
George W. Head, Jr., is president of the com-
pany. The firm will shortly publish a half-
dozen or more new numbers, which are now in
press. Among them will be three high-grade
ballads by F. Emil Grimm. The titles are
"Ecstacy," "The Warrior's Return" and "Sweet-
heart."
'MALBRUK" A SUCCESS IN ROME.
"Malbruk," the new opera by Leoncavallo,
which was given recently in Rome, turns out
to be much more of a success than "Maja,"
according to advices from Italy. Evidently the
composer's forte is comic opera, and "Malbruk"
is a work of the highest order in that class." The
libretto is said to be perilously near actual in-
decency, but its exceptional cleverness saves it
from gross vulgarity.