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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Mrs. Young on the lyrics and musical version of
her comedy.
William A. Schroeder Working on Music for
Mr. Schroeder began his musical studies at a
New Musical Comedy by Rida Johnson very early age, and at twenty-three finds himself
Young and William Cary Duncan—Pub- equipped to enter any line of musical work toward
lished by M. Witmark & Sons.
which his inclinations might lead him. He thor-
oughly mastered harmony and counterpoint under
William A. Schroeder, a clever young composer, the able tuition of Rubin Goldmark. Mr. Schroe-
is now engaged in writing the music to "Soldier der, who, by the way, is a native of Brooklyn,
Boys," the latest musical comedy from the pen wrote the musical score of "One of the Boys," the
comedy in which Lulu Glaser starred, which has
been praised very highly by musical critics.
TO WRITE "SOLDIER BOYS"
NEW YORK RUN NOT NECESSARY.
Good Production Can Prove Successful in Other
Cities, Says Charles Frohman.
of Rida Johnson Young. It is a musical version
of Mrs. Young's successful comedy "The Boys of
Company B," produced under the management of
Daniel Frohman, with Arnold Daly in the leading
role. William Cary Duncan is collaborating with
Victor Kremer Co.,
Publisher* of
••LITTLE PUFF OF SMOKE.GOOD NIGHT"
"HONEY SAL"
"SING ME AN IRISH COME-ALL-YE"
"RAGGED EDGES"
"MOTHER"
"WHY DON'T THE BAND PLAY DIXIE"
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Victor Kremer Co., JSSSo
MILLION
COPY HIT
Down By The Old Millstream
Also New Hita
New WHEN WE WERE SWEETHEARTS New
New
UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE New
New
WAY DOWN SOUTH
New
New
RAG RAG RAG
New
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THAT SUBWAY RAG
New
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FRANKIE AND 10HNNY New
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In view of the fact that the New York run of
a musical production does not tend to overwhelm
the publishers of the music with orders for suc-
cessful numbers, though it has always ben the aim
of the show managers to play on Broadway for a
season just to get a reputation, it is interesting to
note that Charles Frohman, in a recent interview
in London, holds that a New York run is no longer
absolutely necessary for the success of a produc-
tion.
"Over there in the United States a great change
has come about in play producing," said Mr. Froh-
man. "New York is still the big commercial cen-
ter, but the country at large has, theatrically, sud-
denly become independent of New York. Outside
cities do not need to know its judgment of plays
and players before they can be considered an es-
tablished success. The area of popular approval
in America has widened enormously. My belief
is that in any of the large American cities one
couldto-day manage a theater and make success-
ful productions without any reference whatever
to New York."
It is stated that Mr. Frohman is enthusiastic over
the London prospects of "The Pink Lady," which
will occupy all his attention for the present.
gentleness and wildness of the song from the
Hebrides, "So Sweet Is Morag," the wonderful
song of the shipwreck of "The Nightingale," with
a humming accompaniment as originally sung by
the girls in a glove factory in Dorset—indicate the
wealth of the musical tradition which has grown
up among the country people of England, and
which now has been saved, unspoiled by editing or
artistic "improvement," just as they were sung by
the English peasants themselves for many gen-
erations.
LATE HAPPENINGS IN CHICAGO.
Remick & Co. Music to Be Featured as Supple'
ment to Chicago Inter-Ocean—Mrs. Carrie
Jacobs Bond in Recital—Long Run of
"Louisiana Lou"—Other Trade Notes.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., April 10, 1912.
As a puller for circulation of the Sunday Chi-
cago Inter-Ocean arrangements have been made by
that paper with the Jerome H. Remick Co. to give
as supplements to each Sunday edition copies of
popular songs in sheet music forms. Compositions
by Williams & Van Alstyne, Albert Gamble, Nell
Moret and others will be given with the Inter-
Ocean.
Mrs. Bond in Concert.
Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond, Chicago's famous com-
poser of heart and child songs, will appear in
joint recital with Elith Reumert at Music Hall,
the Fine Arts building, at 10 o'clock Saturday
morning, April 11. Mrs. Bond will interpret a
number of her own songs, while Mr. Reumert will
give readings of fairy tales from Hans Christian
Andersen. The recital will be under the manage-
ment of Mrs. Eleanor Fisher and R. M. Talbot.
Secretary Smith, of the Bond Shop, which pub-
lishes Mrs. Bond's productions, reports that it is
having a wonderful run on "A Perfect Day," both
the music and lyrics of which are by the famous
woman composer.
Song Hit in "Louisiana Lou."
HOW ROYALTIES WILL BE DIVIDED.
"Louisiana Lou," the sprightly musical comedy
which has had such a phenomenal run at the La
In order to protect their rights in the matter of
collecting royalties under the new Copyright Act, Salle Theater, is nearing its three hundredth per-
a number of the most prominent British pub- formance. The Chicago office of Charles K. Harris,
lishers, composers and lyric writers are engaged in who published the music, reports a big and con-
forming "The Musical Copyright Association stantly increasing demand for the song hits for
(Mechanical Rights)," which will be duly incor- the production.
The Monkey Rag Has Unique Origin.
porated under the companies' act. The plan of this
one association is to divide the royalties in the The Thompson Music Co., 507 Randolph build-
following prooprtions: 30 per cent, for the pub- ing, has republished "Gathering Shells from the
lisher, 40 per cent, for the composer and 30 per Sea Shore," composed by Will L. Thompson
twenty-five years ago. It is arranged for quartet
cent, for the lyric writer.
singing and is the kind of a song that will appeal.
ENGLISH FOLK_SONGS SAVED.
Old Ballads Have Lived by Oral Transmission
Alone and Effort Is Being Made to Preserve
Them in More Permanent Form.
English folk songs, for years unknown to the
music world, apparently doomed to oblivion, but
rescued at the last moment, formed part of a con-
cert at the Hotel Plaza, given under the auspices
of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the
British Empire, for the benefit of their philan-
thropic work, not long ago. These songs,
after being handed down orally for hundreds of
years, owing to industrial changes due to the in-
troduction of the factory system, are known and
sung now only by the very old people in the coun-
try districts of England. Cecil J. Sharpe and
Walter G. Fuller are at the head of the movement
in England to collect these songs before the old
people die off, and to perpetuate them. Mr. Ful-
ler was at the concert yesterday afternoon, and
made a brief address on the folk songs before his
three sisters sang a number of them, Miss Oriska
Fuller supplying the accompaniment on the Irish
harp, an instrument exquisitely adapted to the sim-
ple, sincere character of the folk songs. The
women wore dresses of the early Victorian period,
which gave a suggestion of the Brontes and sup-
plied an appropriate setting for the music.
The infectious humor of the Somersetshire "O,
No, John," and "The Tailor and the Mouse," the
fresh country spirit of "Mowing the Barley," the
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