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WOULDN'T PiVV FOR NOISE.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
IMPORTANT DITSON WORKS
Victor Herbert Does Not Have to Pay for Are Some Recent Additions to the Musicians'
"Soundproof" Room That Wasn't Sound-
Library and Some Smaller Volumes Which
proof—Court Says So.
Will Interest Teachers and the Public.
According to a decision handed down by Judge
Weil, in the Municipal Court on Monday of this
week, Victor Herbert will not have to pay for the
privilege of listening to the amateur entertainment
offered by his neighbors while enclosed in his
"soundproof" studio in 108th street. In other
words, the court decided that the studio wasn't
soundproof and that Mr. Herbert did not have to
pay the bill of the company that contracted to
keep sound from penetrating the walls of the room
for "the sum of $242.55.
After the work on the room had been com-
pleted, Mr. Herbert decided to devote a night to
composing. But that was the night the wife of the
janitor down toward Broadway had served the
janitor and family with soup several degrees hotter
than she ever had placed it on the table before.
And not only was it necessary for the whole
janitor family to dispose of hot soup in chorus,
but also there was celery with the soup, in honor
of the twelfth birthday of Archibald Steinworthy,
the janitor's fair-haired child.
Also it was a Wednesday night. Mortimer, the
musical college lad, was calling on the girl who
shares the party wall just back of the desk on
which Mr. Herbert writes his scores. Leaning
against the neighbor's side of the party wall just
in front of the Herbert desk was the piano of the
girl who lives on that side.
And this second pianiste had a little friend visit-
ing her. This little friend is thinking about going
in for grand opera now that Patti and Melba are
next door to out of the business for good. But
although the girl across the wall in front of the
desk and her friends sing soprano duets prettily
together, the pair back of the wall that is back of
the desk do not. This girl sings contralto and
Mortimer, the musical colleger, is a bear for fal-
setto stuff. And the remarkable part of it is that
he never took a lesson! It just comes out of him
instinctively. These were just a few troubles.
Instead of composing music Mr. Herbert decided
to compose a letter for the attention of the sound-
proofing company in which he refused to pay their
bill. The suit followed, with the result hitherto
recorded.
DEATH OF RICHARD A. SAALFIELD.
Richard. Albert Saalfield, operatic impresario
and publisher of popular music, died Tuesday in
St. Luke's Hospital from heart disease and
paralysis.
Mr. Saalfield was born in England in 1857. In
the early 80's he became identified with several
musical productions in London and later went into
operatic work. Twenty years ago he began in
New. York to issue popular songs. Mr. Saalfield
left a widow, a son and two daughters.
McKINLEY MUSIC CO'S NEW HIT.
Among the recent publications of the Oliver
Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., which merit especial
consideration are "Forty Songs by Peter Ilyitch
Tchaikovsky" and "Selected Piano Compositions
of Franz Schubert," two volumes which form part
of that remarkable compilation. The Musicians'
Library. The Tchaikovsky volume is edited by
James Huneker, and the introductory is a master-
piece. Lovers of the Tchaikovsky symphonies and
other instrumental works will find these forty songs
a veritable mine from which to dig treasures in-
numerable.
The volume devoted to the Schubert compositions
is edited by August Spanuth, the well-known critic
and pianist, and the selections form a most ad-
mirable assortment of the piano writings of the
"King of Song Writers." Both volumes, as might
be expected, are admirably printed, carefully
edited, and constitute important additions to The
Musicians' Library.
Among the pedagogic publications is a very im-
portant and admirably conceived method for the
violin by Albert G. Mitchell, Mus.D., assistant
director of music in the Boston public schools,
which can be highly commended. In this volume
he gives the result of investigation and observation
of methods employed in teaching the violin to
classes of children in public and in private
schools.
Two smaller volumes from the Ditson House
are "Ten Little Morsels of Melody," by Krog-
mann, and Moret's "Little Symphony in F" for two
violins and piano, edited by Eugene Gruenberg,
both of which make a strong appeal to teachers.
WANTS CORNELL LIBRETTO.
Puccini Asks Collegians to Write Book for
American Opera.
Puccini, through the influence of Milton and Sar-
gent Aborn, it is said, has invited the undergradu-
ates of Cornell University to write a libretto for
his nexit American work. He has decided to com-
pose a new American opera, and has announced
that he probably would choose as his librettist an
American college student.
Puccini said he wanted fresh ideas and novel
execution, such as he believed could be produced
by an amateur who had the advantages of the
highest education.
MILLION COPY HIT
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Also New Hit*
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UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE New
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PUBLISHER
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A SUCCESSFUL VAUDEVILLE ACT.
Weslyn and Nickells are Scoring a Big Hit
With Witmark Songs.
One of the most successful acts in vaudeville is
being presented by the well-known song and sketch
writer, Louis Weslyn, and Rhoda Nickells, former
prima donna of "School Boys and Girls." It is a
miniature musical comedy entitled "Cupid's Lad-
der," and the actors are scoring a hit.
The big feature of this act is their singing of a
number of clever songs which by their vivacious
rendering carries them to immediate triumph. In-
cluded in their repertoire are "You Wondering
Girl With the Wondering Eyes," "Rosalie," "When
You Know," "Tell me Truly," "Down Cupid's
Lane,"' and the latest novelty hit, "When I Join My
Honey Down in Jacksonville." All are published
by M. Witmark & Sons.
USING JEROME & SCHWARTZ SONGS.
One of those who has won success in singing
the publications of the Jerome & Schwartz Pub-
lishing Co. is Miss Henrietta White, who is using
"String a Ring of Roses 'Round Your Rosie,"
"Ragtime Eyes" and "If Ever I Forget You," the
three leading numbers in the Jerome & Schwartz
catalog. Miss White is appearing this week at the
Lafayette Theater, New York, which is becoming
very popular under the management of C. F. Mel-
ville and H. B. Van Emden.
NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK
Four Big Musical Successes.
At the Globe Theater
"The Lady of the Slipper"
Book by Ann Caldwell and Lawrence McCarty.
Lyrics by Tames O'Dea.
Music by Victor Herbert.
At the N. Y. Hippodrome
BUY
YOUR
MJUSIC FROM
BOSTON
Conceived by Arthur Voegtlin.
Book by Carroll Fleming.
Music and Lyrics by Manuel Klein.
WALTER JACOBS
167 Tremont St.,
BOSTON, MASS.
Publisher of
"Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True," 1
And Some Others World Famous.
OLIVER
DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
Published in Chicago.
"Under Many Flags"
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS & ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago
At the Casino
"The Merry Countess"
Book by Gladys Unger.
Lyrics by Arthur Anderson.
Music by Johann Strauss.
All the Music Now Ready.
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldg., 144-146 West 87th St., N. Y. City.
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