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MUSIC TMDE
VOL. LI. N o . 1.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, July 2,1910
CHICAGO'S BUDGET OF NEWS.
Paul F. Deiss to be Remick Manager on Pacific
Coast—Has Been Prominent Figure in West-
ern Trade—Kremer-Newman
Negotiations
Dropped—Interesting
Personalities—Some
Late Successes in the Music Field.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., June'25, 1910.
Music publishers East and West will be very
vitally interested in learning that Paul F. Deiss,
one of the largest and best-known music buyers
in the country, has resigned as manager of the
music department of the Western Book & Sta-
tionery Co., owners of the music departments of
"The Fair" and Rothschild's, Chicago; "The
Fair," Cincinnati, and Hamburger's, Los An-
geles, and who, besides, do an immense mail
order business.
Mr. Deiss severs his connection with the house
in whose Business he has been a large factor
for the past thirteen years to go with Jerome
H. Remick & Co., as manager of their retail
interests on the Pacific coast. Remick already
has retail stores at San Francisco and Los An-
geles, and contemplates going into Portland and
Seattle in the fall, giving him a chain of stores
along the coast, and thus making the position
assumed by Mr. Deiss a very important one.
Mr. Deiss is known not only as one of the closest
and shrewdest buyers in the country, but as a
systematizer and aggressive sales manager. The
department at "The Fair" here has been
built up to remarkable proportions under his
management.
Mr. Deiss will be succeeded at the Western
Book & Stationery Co. by S. B. Brewer, son of
O. W. Brewer, the treasurer and general man-
ager of the company. He has been associated
with E. H. Dart in the music department of the
Hamburger department store at Los Angeles,
Cal., owned by the Western Book & Stationery
Co. Mr. Diess leaves next week for New York,
where he will spend a month at the Remick
headquarters posting up, and will go to San
Francisco, where he will make his headquarters,
about August 1.
Negotiations between Victor Kremer and
Harry Newman looking toward the acquisition
by the former of an interest in the Sunlight
Music Co., have been dropped. Mr. Newman
returned from New York this week and an-
nounced that he had sold his song, "Dear Old
Tennessee," which has proved a big hit, to
Shapiro. He has opened New York offices in the
Astor Theatre building, 1531 Broadway. He re-
turns there to-day and will remain for the next
three months. He has just brought out a new
song, "Smiling Moon," from which he expects
big things.
The '*Girl in the Kimono," by Phil Schwartz
and Harold Atteridge, opens at the Ziegfeld to-
night. Great popularity is predicted for some
of the numbers, among which are "Only a Kiss,"
"Corner of My Heart" and "Boogey-Boo Lady."
Leo Feist publishes the music.
It's just a year since Frank Clark opened up
Ted Snyder's Chicago office, and it is admitted
generally that he has made a record for himself.
He has certainly done his part toward realizing
the company's ideal of a "hie a month." Two of
the most strongly exploited numbers in Chicago
just now are "Call Me Up Some Rainy After-
noon" and "Grizzly Bear."
Harry Werthan, general western representa-
tive for Jerome H. Remick & Co., leaves next
week for Detroit, where he will spend the sum-
mer while Mr. Remick is at his cottage at
Gloucester, Mass.
Tom Mayo Geary, Chicago manager for Theo-
dore Morse, is enthusiastic regarding Morse's lat-
est, "Good-Bye Betty Brown," a cracking march
song. It will be sung for the first time in Chi-
cago at the La Salle to-night by Wolf and Lee.
SHAPIRO GETS INJUNCTION
Restraining Vaudeville Performers from Sing-
ing "That Dancing Big Banshee"—Case
Against J. Fred Helf Co. Settled.
Maurice Shapiro, publisher of the score of
"The Matinee Idol," in which De Wolf Hopper
is starring at the Lyric Theater, has obtained an
injunction against Harry Pilcer and Gertrude
Vanderbilt, vaudeville performers, restraining
them from singing the song "That Dancing Big
Banshee," a part of the score of "The Matinee
Idol." The injunction being handed down by
mutual agreement no further action was taken.
The case of Shapiro against the J. Fred Helf
Co. to prevent the latter concern from, publish-
ing the song, "When My Marie Sings Chilly-
Billy-Bee," which was to have come up for trial
at a later date, has been settled out of court.
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$3.00 PER VEAR.
bring her own English quartet, consisting of
Miss Alice Prowse, soprano; Miss Palgrave-Tur-
ner, contralto; Herbert Eisdell, tenor, and Julien
Henry, baritone.
Mine. Lehman and her quartet are already en-
gaged to appear in Rochester, Quincy, Peoria,
Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fargo, Des
Moines, Columbia, Mo., Kansas City, Omaha, and
other cities in the Middle West; also for
twenty performances on the Pacific coast. They
will return from southern California via Texas,
appearing at Galveston, Houston, San Antonio,
New Orleans, Birmingham, etc. Owing to the
great demand for Mme. Lehmann's services in the
West, it will be impossible for her to give a
recital in New York before the middle of Jan-
uary.
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HIGH CLASS BALLADS PREFERRED
On the Pacific Coast, Says Manager Little of
Sherman, Clay & Co.—Tendency of Present
Day Demand Is Along These Lines—Amazed
at Price Conditions in New York, Which For-
tunately Are Not Duplicated on the Pacific
Coast—Looking Forward to an Excellent
Year's Business.
Edward Little, manager of the sheet music
department of Sherman, Clay & Co., Oakland,
Cal., who has been visiting the metropolis for
the purpose of keeping in touch with trade de-
velopments in the East, was a visitor to The
Review sanctum on Monday.
In the course of a chat he expressed some as-
tonishment and regret at the way prices of
music were being cut in New York, and couldn't
NEW FEIST PRODUCTION.
seem to understand why publishers shouldn't get
together and prevent the demoralization which
'The Girl and the Drummer*' Now in Rehearsal exists. "We manage things better on the Pacific
—Opening at Atlantic City July 25—Popu-
Coast," said Mr. Little. "We are able to get to-
lar Numbers in "The Girl in the Kimono."
gether and hold prices at a point which pays us
a fair profit. The demand for music on the
The latest addition to the rapidly-growing list
Coast is most active and our department is
of productions published by Leo Feist is "The
steadily growing. We are handling the standard
Girl and the Drummer," by George Broadhurst
and classical publications of all the publishers.
and Augustus Barrett. The show is now in re-
d,m\ the output of the Sherman-Clay institution
hearsal and will be produced for the first time at
in the music line is formidable, figured out in
Atlantic City on July 25, under the management
dollars and cents—in fact, the amount, if stated,
of Wm. A. Brady.
would be surprising to some of the largest East-
"The Girl in the Kimono," by Harold Attridge
ern retailers.
and Philip Schwartz, and also published by
"You will be glad to know that the demand
Feist, which had its premiere at the Ziegfeld
at
present is for the better class of ballads and
Theater, Chicago, on June 20, has proven an
instrumental music, and this tendency is grow-
immediate success. Among the more popular
ing month after month. This affords us much
numbers are "In the Corner of My Heart," "Only
gratification, for it supplies evidence that the
a Kiss" and "The Boo^ey-Boo Lady," for all of
people
are appreciating the better class of music.
which the publishers are already noting a strong
This does not mean, however, that the popular
demand.
music is being neglected in its entirety—far
from it. There will always be a market for the
LIZA LEHMANNJTOJOUR STATES.
popular song, but the taste of the people in the
musical field is ascending, and the high-class
To Cover Entire Country to Pacific Coast Next
ballad is being preferred to-day by people who
Season—Will Bring Own Quartet—To Be
formerly bought the so-called popular stuff. We
Heard in New York in January.
are looking forward to an excellent season on
the Coast and everything points to our closing a
Mme. Liza Lehmann, the celebrated composer
of "Breton Folk Songs," "In a Persian Garden," year of great prosperity."
Mr. Little left for Boston and some other
"Nonsense Songs," and other publications,
points in New England early in the week. He
will return to America about October 1 for an
expects to leave for home on Tuesday.
extended tour through the Pacific coast. She will