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COMMENTS B Y - „
When a show that has' been adopted from the
French or German and still displays traces of the
raciness that passes unnoticed in those countries,
is brought to Broadway and fails to cause the
treasurer of the theatre distress from overwork,
the plan often adopted is to invite a number of
representative clergymen and reformers, empha-
size the suggestive passages during the particular
performance at which they are present, and then
profit from the general and much published condem-
nation by the guests. There is nothing outside
of genuine merit that tends to make a play so
successful as strong condemnation by public men.
It seems to be human nature to investigate wick-
edness for ones self to see if it is really as bad
as reported, and secretly hoping that the reports
are not exaggerated.
If such a rule can be applied to music and its
production, then the future of ragtime is assured
for within a comparatively short time the daily
press has been quite full of the expressions of
those who claim that ragtime does anything from
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increasing the number of cases of insanity to de-
veloping well denned cases of acute indigestion
when played in restaurants during meals. It would
seem that, following out the rule, that those who
favor ragtime would stick closer than a creditor
with a view to being real "devilish" while those
who had held aloof would dabble in ragtime just
to see how bad it really is.
Professor Declares Ragtime Is Pleasing.
Dr. Ludwig Brunner's attack on ragtime music
which was reproduced in part in the Music Sec-
tion last week, and in which he claimed that that
class of music was driving Americans insane, ha.s
aroused a storm of protest from musicians and
others, among them no other than .a professor of
Harvard University, Prof. Philip Greeley, who in
an interview said: "It is utter nonsense to sup-
pose that syncopation in harmonization has an
immoral connotation. Instead of ragtime shatter-
ing the nerves, as the Berlin scientist says, it has
a pleasing effect on the listener, and the idea of
its being immoral is absurd. Ragtime has been
much maligned. Syncopation has been charged
with being immoral, but that is ridiculous. Music
worthy of the name won't wear anybody out, and
I include ragtime in that category. Ragtime is
characteristic of this country, and could not be
neglected in any consideration of American music."
Foreign Operettas Not Dead Yet.
A couple of publishers recently returned from
jaunts through Europe have expressed the opinion
that the present season will practically end the
demand for Viennese and other foreign operettas
in this country, but the success of the various
foreign operettas that have been produced in this
country thus far this season indicates that the
prospects for home-made musical comedies coming
entirely into their own again is more distant than
imagined in some quarters. "The Pink Lady," for
instance, is meeting with as great success this
season as it did last. "The Siren" and "The Kiss
Waltz" have met with success since their first
production on Broadway, and "The Gipsy Love"
this week and "The Quaker Girl" next week
come to New York after most cordial receptions
in Philadelphia. Of course their popularity may
wane after a few more weeks, but the possibility
of that is too remote to enter into any calculations
on the matter. In the meantime, while several
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This collection will fill
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musical literature as be-
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being complete. An even
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music in the lighter vein,
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"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
By Chaa. K. Harris
C H A P P E L L & CO., L t d .
41 East 34th St., New York
American musical comedies have made good, es-
pecially in the West, there have also been a num-
ber of failures of such pieces. While the foreign
operettas may not be gaining ground the fact that
they are holding their own is not to be disputed.
A Lesson for Live Dealers.
Some of the music dealers who depend upon
their trade coming to them rather upon going
after the trade, might well take example from a
young New York composer who, though his works
are of doubtful quality, nevertheless manages to
sell a surprisingly large number of copies through
personal solicitation. The composer referred to
visits every owner of a piano whose name he can
secure, and after playing over a couple of his
numbers generally closes a sale for one or more
pieces at twenty and twenty-five cents each. He
also secures the names of friends of the purchaser
who have pianos and then calls on them. It forms
a very successful and lucrative endless chain.
While the practice of carrying their business di-
rectly into the home might not appeal to the aver-
age dealer, it is not a bad idea to secure from cus-
tomers the names of their friends who have pianos
and then keep in touch with those friends. Every
new customer added means a bigger business and
a greater income.
The Secret Is Out.
At last the secret is out—the reason why women
cannot compose such good music as men. Philip
Hale has discovered it in the London Referee. An
extremely gallant writer in that periodical argues
it out in this way: "Woman has been directly or
indirectly man's constant source of inspiration.
How then can inspiration inspire itself? In other
words, men think so much more highly of women
than women think of men that women have not
the same source of power. * * * Nearly all
the most beautiful melodies in the world have
come into being through the composer's effort to
express his ideal woman. The same effect is no-
ticeable in a man's piano playing of passages of
amorous and delicate sentiment. It is' seldom one
hears them interpreted with such intense tender-
ness by a woman. The man is expressing an
ideal."
The suffragettes are evidently right, says Henry
T. Finck, the musical critic. Men are inferior
beings. After reading the above, however, mere
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