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THE
44
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
"AIR MARSEILLAISE" CHOSEN.
Music
Is Now Wanted for Words, Glorifying
French Aviation Triumphs.
A dispatch from Paris to the Times says that
the words of "The Marseillaise of Aviation," on
which poets and musicians all over the country-
have been at work, were chosen this week from
over 1,500 manuscripts by a jury comprising some
of the principal musical and literary authorities
of France.
The new hymn on the conquest of the air, which
will henceforward be heard at all the great avia-
tion meetings, is in four verses.
France, it says, is mounting from victory to vic-
tory up the ladder of glory. She was the first to
give light to all in the achievement of flight.
The more dangerous the struggle, the greater
the number of heroes. If there be too many vic-
tims, let the nation gain fresh laurels by yet sub-
limer exploits. Death is no defeat, since the tombs
can be adorned with the fruits of conquest.
The bird of France is peaceful, but if an affront
to the country has to be avenged the aeroplane be-
comes a bird of prey with terrible claws.
The words having been settled, composers are
now invited to set them to music.
The best settings sent in will be submitted to the
public judgment by having them played in one of
the principal concert halls in Paris before an audi-
ence composed of all classes, whose vote will de-
cide the tune to be officially approved.
BECOMING WELL ESTABLISHED.
New Songs That Are Making Good for Edgar
Selden's New Company.
The Edgar Selden Music Publishing & Produc-
tion Co. is now comfortably established in new
quarters in the Astor Theater building and Mr.
Selden is pushing the various numbers of the
catalog in an energetic manner. One of the most
successful songs so far is the ballad "When I
Carved Your Name on the Tree," by Edgar Selden
and Will Arthur, and which is being sung in the
revival of "Patience" at the Lyric Theater, by
Arthur Aldrich. Mr. Aldrich will also use the
number in the coming revival of "The Pirates of
Penzance," at the Casino Theater next week.
Another popular number by the new house is "My
Honey Lou," which is being sung in vaudeville by
Tempest and Sunshine.
JMEREVIEWflEARS
THAT some of the professional managers for the
local publishers are getting wise to the fact that
certain song boosters have a neat little habit of
collecting salary and expenses for work that they
don't do.
THAT
it is comparatively
simple
for a dis-
honest singer to make all kinds of claims for work
done before a crowded house twenty miles or
more from headquarters.
THAT Sam H. Speck, of Remick & Co., got real
bold on Tuesday and went right out and had his
picture "took."
THAT judging from Mr. Speck's heated and un-
comfortable appearance upon his return his ex-
perience was one that will be long remembered.
THAT to be invited to take a look at Abe
Holzmann's yellow clarinet is a sure sign of un-
TO PRODUCE NEW STRAUSS WORK. dying friendship.
THAT J. T. Roach, manager of the music de-
Stuttgart Selected as Place for Premiere of
partment of Hinds, Noble & Eldredge is getting
New One-Act Opera by Richard Strauss.
to be quite an authority on "price cutting and how
to prevent it," and he is geting away with it, too.
It is announced that the newest work of Richard
THAT a fund has been raised for a handsome
Strauss will be produced at the end of October at monument to Paul Dresser, who will be remem-
Stuttgart in the smaller of the two new Court bered as one of the country's most popular song
theaters, which are being built on the plans of
writers, in Teire Haute, Ind., the city of his
Professor Lipmann of Munich. The one-act opera birth. The monument will be dedicated on Sep-
with text written by Herr Hugo von Hofmann-
tember 1.
sthal is entitled "Ariadne auf Naxos," and is de-
THAT Charles K. Harris has just completed
scribed as a "Divertissement als Nachspiel" to another ballad entitled "I Care Not What the
Moliere's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme." There will World May Say," which he feels confident will
'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" TO MUSIC.
be a Strauss festival at Stuttgart with three per- rival some of his previous successes.
formances of the new opera, two of which will be
Arthur Pryor Writes Music for Elaborate Pro-
THAT a Harris ballad in the summer time and
conducted by Herr Strauss himself. The prin-
duction of Weil-Known Drama in New Form.
combined with suitable proportions a pretty girl
cipal parts for women will be taken by Mme. Des-
After runs aggregating close to half a century, tinn and Friiulein Frida Hempel, and the arrange- and moonlight has got many a struggling young
in the form of a melodrama, with companies play- ments will be in the hands of Prof. Max Reinhardt. man all tangled up in the bonds of matrimony.
THAT Jean Schwartz and Edward Madden have
ing everything from metropolitan theaters to tank-
It was originally intended that the first perform-
written
a new song, entitled "Mr. Yankee Doodle
town halls, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is about to be ance should take place in the Deutsche Theater in
Do the Dankee Do Do," which will be strongly
offered to us in a musical form with the backing, Berlin, but it is found that the new small theater at
it is said, of the Bronx Club, whose president is Stuttgart will more perfectly satisfy the intentions featured in the new "Follies of 1912."
a lineal descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe. of the composer and author.
NEW MANAGER FOR CHICAGO OFFICE.
Arthur Pryor has written the music for the pro-
(Special to The Review.)
duction and a competent cast of singers is now
YORK & ADAMS TO TOUR EUROPE.
Chicago, 111., May 28, 1912.
being gathered together for the opening, which it is
On
June
1,
A.
Shipman
will succeed Al. Gold-
believed will take place within a month or so at
York & Adams, the well-known Hebrew come-
a theattr not yet announced. Efforts are being dians, who have won a full measure of success sea- finger as manager of the Chicago office of Charles
made to secure Rita Fornia, of the Metropolitan
son after season in this country, have decided to K. Harris. Mr. Shipman was in charge of the lo-
Opera Co., for the prima donna role of "Eliza."
try for honors abroad and will sail for Europe this cal Harris office some years ago, but has more re-
summer for the purpose of making further con- cently been active in theatrical circles. Mr. Gold-
MAKES GOOD IN ENGLAND.
quests in England and on the Continent. Among finger contemplates returning to the Pacific Coast,
the American songs they will use on their tour where he will probably enter into the retail music
'Rum Turn Tiddle" the New York Winter
abroad will be "Rum Turn Tiddle" and "Tjiat business on his own account.
Garden Success, Pleases the British Music
Coontown Quartette," both of which are published
Not a Hit that will die but a seller that w i l l live
Hall Audiences.
by the Jerome & Schwartz Publishing Co.
The following clipping from the London Sport-
Jng Times shows that "Rum Turn Tiddle," the song
which has created such a sensation in this country
is also stirring things up "on the other side." The
article reads as follows:
JUST CLEANING UP, THAT'S ALL.
F. H. Burr, Eastern sales manager for Jerome
II. Remick & Co., left on Monday on a short trip
through New England in the interest of the vari-
AMERICAN'S DARING.
ous popular Remick prints. The fact that the sea-
There appeared at the Tivoli on Monday for the
son is fast drawing to a close with the approach
first time in England, Grace Cameron. Her first
of hot" weather is declared to have little or no
effort was a catchy ditty entitled "Rum Turn Tiddle,"
effect on the sales of the Remick house.
which is likely to set all London humming in the
course of the next few weeks. It is one of those
JAN BLOCKX, COMPOSER, DEAD.
semi-inanities allied to a catchy melody which the
great bulk of the public seems to be continually
Jan Blockx, the composer, died last week at Ant-
thirsting for. When she reached the second chorus
werp, Belgium, where he was born, fifty-one years
Miss Camer/m stepped down the stairs, and while
ago. He was a pupil of the Flemish Music School
dancing up and down the center aisle, had the re-
of Callaerts and Benoit. Jan Blockx was a com-
frain repeated again and again.
poser of a number of operas and was busy on a
Frederick S. Converse, whose "Pipe of Desire" work for the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
at the time of his death.
was produced at the Metropolitan while another of
his works, "The Sacrifice," was staged in Boston,
B. Feldman, the prominent music publisher of
is composing a third opera, the name of which has
London, is at present in New York on a visit.
not yet been revealed.
I WILL LOVE YOU WHEN
THE SILVER THREADS ARE
SHINING AMONG THE GOLD
ROGER LEWIS
F. HENRI KLICKMAN
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CHICAGO
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