Music Trade Review

Issue: 1910 Vol. 51 N. 3

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
THAT F. H. Burt, at Remick's, has been driven
to posting a sign near his desk reading: "A
cordial welcome is not an invitation to stay all
day."
THAT the Victor Kremer-Sunlight Music Co.
THAT when you write a new musical produc- deal is off, Mr. Newman making the announce-
tion you must make it an opera comique if you ment that it fell through after being practically
want to keep up with the procession of those who completed.
are eminently proper in matters musical.
THAT Clarice Vance was among the recent ar-
THAT Puccini will come to New York in No- rivals in this city on the steamship "Baltic," which
vember to attend rehearsals of his latest grand Viad collided with the tank steamer "Standard" in
opera, "The Girl of the Golden West."
mid-ocean.
THAT the formation of an association of New
THAT James East Phillip, whose charming song,
York, music publishers to work for the mainten- "The Jewel of Asia," was interpolated in "The
ance of proper prices would be one of the most Geisha," is dead in England.
desirable organizations that could exist.
THAT the song publishers and song boosters,are
THAT as the popular publishers will not join very much in evidence at Atlantic City during the
such a movement, by all means let the standard week-ends, visiting the cafes and (the boosters)
publishers co-operate with the recently inaugurated
singing on the piers.
movement to form such a body.
THAT George Walter Brown, manager of
THAT maintenance of prices, by whomsoever
Shapiro's professional department, was a recent
achieved, is the great and crying need in the music visitor there, also Tom Penfold, of the Ted Snyder
publishing world of to-day.
Co.
THAT the latest freak song in London is called
THAT Percy Wenrich, of "Grey Bonnet" fame,
"Cock-a-Doodle-Do," and is, as might be expected, and his wife (Dolly Connolly) are at Atlantic
a burlesque on "Chantecler" and is sung in appro- City for the summer.
priate costume.
THAT Thomas J. Gray has written some new
THAT Victoria Monks' song, "What Yer Gwine songs for Paula Edwardes and is now said to be
to Do on Judgment Day?" has created something writing a new number for the "Follies of 1910."
of a sensation in London, some persons calling it
THAT Arthur Longbrake, manager of the New
blasphemous and otherwise giving it considerable York office of the Jos.. Morris Co., was married
free advertising.
last Sunday to Ruth Curtis, of Detroit.
THAT Bessie Abbott has changed the spelling of
her name, and only one "b" will be in evidence
ANNUAL OUTING OF SONGWRITERS.
when the lyric soprano returns to this country
next fall to star in Mascagni's new opera,
The Songwriters of America will hold an outing
"Ysobel."
to-morrow on the Shrewsbury River. This will
be their second annual outing. On the committee
in charge of the details are Ernest R. Ball, Wil-
ALL READY DEALERS!
liam Redmond and Edward E. Pidgeon. In addi-
tion to the songwriters a number of music pub-
"RIDE ME IN A BIG BALLOON'
lishers will attend.
THEREVIDVflEARS
By Harry D. Kerr.
"When You Marry A Girl For Looks"
By Harry D. Kerr.
"Don't You Worry, Little Girlie"
By "Dick" Hanch.
Send in your orders—they're good ones.
MILLER MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.,
515 So. Hermitage Avenue, Chicago.
ROBERT TELLER SONS ft DOINER
Mislc EM§ravers aid Prliteri
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MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OP TITLE
TOR ESTIMATE
III WIST 18th STIER, NEW Y W I CITY
YOUNG WOMAN WRITES TANGUAY SONGS.
In addition to her numerous accomplishments,
already recognized, please add one more to the
genius of Eva Tanguay, says Joshua Lowe in the
Morning Telegraph. What may be described as
an Eva Tanguay "find" is a young woman, still
in her teens, the daughter of a prominent family
living in the wilds of Long Island, who bids fair
to shine as one of the country's foremost lyric
writers and popular composers. Her name is
Blanche Merrill and she is so modest that she re-
fuses to sit for a protograph or to supply me with
any details of herself. .All that I can learn is that
in some mysterious way she was discovered by
Miss Tanguay and that the "I Don't Care"
comedienne employed her to write "The Tanguay
Rag," "Give An Imitation of Me," "Egotistical
Eva," "I Can't Help It," "Whistle and Help Me
Along," and several other attractive ditties to be
exclusively used by Miss Tanguay.
MUSICAL COMEDY BASED ON FARCE.
"Jinga Boo," to Be Produced by John Cort,
Taken from "There and Back"—Music by
Arthur Pryor and Lyrics by Vincent Bryan.
The new musical comedy, "Jinga Boo," which
John Cort has announced as scheduled for pre-
sentation by him in October, has for its book an
adaptation from the German by Leo. Dietrich-
stein, originally presented as a farce under the
title of "There and Back." In its musical form
the lyrics will be supplied by Vincent Bryan and
the music by Arthur Pryor. We understand that
the music will be. published by Shapiro.
With the exception of the prelude and the
musical number, "Sunset," used in Montgomery &
Stone's "Old Town" (Witmark), Pryor has
given his attention almost entirely to band and
orchestra compositions, which have had world-wide
vogue for several years. Pryor is generally known
as the Paganini of the trombone, and as soloist
on that instrument has won international recogni-
tion. It is as a band leader that he has been
brought into special prominence of late years.
Mr. Cort will give "Jinga Boo" a New York hear-
ing. Vincent Bryan is well known to New York
music publishers as a lyric writer, and has written
the words of many successful songs.
LIBRETTO MUST BE DESTROYED.
Budapest's Court of Appeal has pronounced
judgment in the suit brought by Maurice Maeter-
linck against Emil Abranyi for using the Belgian
poet-mystic's "Monna Vanna" as an opera libretto
without securing permission from the author.
Abranyi and the two directors of the Budapest
Opera, who produced the work, have each been
condemned to pay a fine of $20 and required to
destroy the libretto.
"Santa Fe"
Irish Cowboy Song. By Williams and Van Alstyne.
"I'm On My Way To Reno"
Our Comic Specialty.
By Jerome and Schwartz.
"What's The Matter With Father"
A Rousing Hit.
By Williams and Van Alstyne.
"I'll Make A Ring Around Rosie"
Jerome and Schwartz* Rosiest "Rose" Song.
"I'm Afraid Of You"
FOUR BIG SELLERS BY WM. MARX
" Don't Forget That We Were Playmates'*
" When The Evening Turns To Gray "
" Where The Brazos River Flows "
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WM. MARX, Music Publisher
251 Ida Ave., Wichita, Kan.
Sample copies free to Dealers interested
T. B. Harms & Francis, Day
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" I'm Awfully Glad I Met You."
" I Want a Girl From Yankee Doodle
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Send for it.
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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
acquaint the metropolis with what has been
transpiring in connection with this musical
Second Pamphlet on This Phase of the Trade Ed. Morton, a Popular Monologist, Meets Suc- production. Doubless it will surprise many to
Issued for Music Dealers by Jerome H. Rem-
cess at Local Theater with Stirring March learn that in midsummer a wholly new entertain-
ment has been presented in the Massachusetts
ick & Co.—Some Business Philosophy.
Number.
capital at a box office gait very close to $15,000 a
A second pamphlet on "Co-operation" has just
Ed. Morton, the popular monologist, glided into week, and, moreover, that the show is acclaimed
been issued by Jerome H. Remick & Co. It is Gotham last week, almost "on rubber shoes" (to the most magnificently caparisoned and satis-
the work of F. H. Burt, Remick's Eastern sales use the vernacular), appeared at the Alhambra, factory musical diversion ever observed in that
manager, and follows the line laid down by a and "created an awful disturbance" (again the city, says Leander Richardson in the New York
Review.
previous pamphlet, thus aiming to develop the
The production contains more than thirty
spirit of co-operation as between the music pub-
swinging musical numbers, written by William
lisher and the regular dealer. The importance of
Jerome and Jean Schwartz, and the book, by
this phase of the publishing business has come to
Edgar Smith, is not only bristling with humor
be realized as never before among music publish-
but is built around a highly original idea. The
ers, and its careful development by the Remick
delay of a week in taking possession of
sales department has substantially increased the
the Casino after the closing performance
already large sales of the Remick prints among
of. "Mikado" was occasioned solely by the
music dealers, just as closer attention to it would
necessity for fitting the massive production to
increase the sales of other publishers. The
the stage of that establishment. It is quite possi-
pamphlet contains a bit of business philosophy, as
He that all this may read like a preconceived and
follows:
jubilant sort of press notice, but in reality it is
"Once and for all let every man Jack of us
more in the nature of a feeble reflection of the
realize that if a great business is to be built,
various reports which have come to me from
whether retail or publishing, it must be built in
entirely disinterested sources in Boston. "Up
the clear light of day, with methods that arc
and Down Broadway" at this distance looks to
open and above board. When a man begins to
be one of the greatest sure-fire shows of the
feel that he must hocus-pocus his customers in
year.
order to get business; when he feels that he must
The music of "Up and Down Broadway" is
apologize for his wares by making them appear
published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., who also
what they are not; when he begins to tincture his
publish the music of "Girlies," another summer
representations with the flavor of deception, then
success, and have the publishing rights to the
look out below. That business is tobogganing
vernacular) by his masterly handling of the stir-
music of "Follies of 1910."
straight for the discard class, and it will not be
ring Witmark march song, "Daddy Was a Grand
long before the proprietor has put the 'kibosh' on
Old Man."
TSCHAIKOWSKY'S SYMPHONY.
his representations, his credit and his good will.
This is a song which offers one of the most
"The saddest case of business shortsightedness
Through the dim-lighted corridors of the past,
in the music line is that of the dealer who tries notable examples of patriotic lives, wedded to a
martial
melody
which
would
make
a
heart
of
flint
Where the sweet tears are falling fast,
to sell inferior prints—goods that can be pur-
There stores relentless Memory his Lares
chased at smaller cost and thereby give a larger leap at its call. The verses of the song are by
And sad-eyed History her burden carries.
profit on the individual copy, but for which there Bert Fitzgibbon, the music is by Leo Bennett,
In the dull-sounding hall,
never was and never will be any actual demand. Ed. Morton is making a big "go" of it, and its
publishers
are
M.
Witmark
&
Sons.
Whose
recesses ne'er recall
"A satisfied customer is your best advertisement,
The word we'd fain forgot,
but a customer on whom you force a copy is not
Whose dome echoeth not
HIGH PRAISE FOR SUMMER SHOW.
satisfied. The people are awake to the fact that
On Earth!
the songs they want are the songs they hear in
In the dim-lighted corridors of the past,
the theaters, parks, etc. If a thing is worth sell- "Up and Down Broadway" a Sure-fire Success,
Says Leander Richardson—Boston Opening
Now is the echo of a soul at last!
ing at all, it is worth selling for what it is. A
Promises Much—Remick Publishes Music.
What heart melody can banish this?
sheet of music that needs an apology—that you
How the soft zephyrs kiss
dare not sell on its true merits, and that forces
And crashing sound-waves fall!
Very little information has thus far penetrated
you to adopt subterfuge and palaver to cover up
And Celestrial echoes call
its shortcomings—has no place on your counter." New York concerning "Up and Down Broadway,"
In soul-loved tones but thrice,
Mr. Burt started on his vacation on Thursday which comes to the Casino next Monday evening.
From the wings of Faradise,
of this week, joining an automobile party which The piece ended a two weeks' opening run in
In Heaven!
will tour Vermont, with St. Johnsbury as its ob- Boston last Saturday, but no particular effort
—Catherine Griggs in The Player Monthly.
seems to have been made by the management to
jective point. He will return about August 1.
"CO-OPERATION" THE SUBJECT.
SCORES HIT WITH WITMARK SONG.
"DOLLAB PRINCESS" IN GERMANY.
One of the American monthly musical journals
has just recalled the fact that Germany witnessed
more performances of "The Dollar Princess" dur-
ing the twelve months ending September last than
of any other musical production of opera, new or
old. But is it an extraordinary fact? In the year
named no fewer than 2,444 performances took place.
Next in popularity stood D'Albert's "Tiefland,"
which was played 647 times. Not so bad for grand
opera, is it? Richard Strauss' "Elektra" received
105 representations, and the same composer's
"Salome" 85.
'SWEET PANSY" TO BE PRODUCED.
In addition to "The Satyr," mentioned elsewhere
"in this issue, Klaw & Erlanger are to produce,
some time next season, "Sweet Pansy," another
musical comedy of which Ivan Caryll is the com-
poser. The piece is said to be much on the type
of "The Duchess of Danzig." The two Klaw &
Erlanger productions will be presented in London
as well as New York, and their presentation will
mark the first time that Klaw & Erlanger have
been associated with George Edwardes, the famous
English producer.
Henry W. Savage announces that he has ac-
quired, through George Maxwell, of Boosey & Co.,
the sole American rights in English of Puccini's
new opera, "The Girl of the Golden West."
A NEW CONCERN WITH AN OLD
NAME AND NEW SONC HITS
GUS EDWARDS, Inc.
MUSIC PUBLISHERS
1531 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
Our first knockout is :
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It Outshines "The Silvery Moon" and is by the Same Writers, Edward Madden and Gus Edwards.
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Some more new ones are:
"ROSA RIGOLETTO"
"PLANNING"
" I ' M LOOKING FOR A CERTAIN LITTLE GIRL"
" T W O LIPS"
"STRIKE UP A BAGPIPE TUNE'
The following in "The Follies of 1910 " :
KIDLAND"
"LOOK M E OVER CAREFULLY"
"DON'T TAKE A GIRLIE TO CONEY"
"DUSKY SANDY FROM SANDUSKY, OHIO"
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